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Offline bowmo

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Bowfishing set up
« on: June 16, 2015, 10:59:14 pm »
Homespun set up. With two different types of arrow attachment. Accidentally put the slider made from a wiring nut on backwards. I've since flipped it around.

 






Slow-mo video of it.

http://s2.photobucket.com/user/wakolbinger/media/IMG_85641.mp4.html?o=0
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Offline DC

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Re: Bowfishing set up
« Reply #1 on: June 16, 2015, 11:31:44 pm »
That's neat. Too bad it's illegal up here. How do you keep the line from running off before you're ready?
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Offline bowmo

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Re: Bowfishing set up
« Reply #2 on: June 16, 2015, 11:37:03 pm »
It just stays put after a little slack falls out. There's a video link at the bottom.
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Offline koan

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Re: Bowfishing set up
« Reply #3 on: June 16, 2015, 11:44:20 pm »
Nice rig!.... Brian
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Offline lebhuntfish

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Re: Bowfishing set up
« Reply #4 on: June 17, 2015, 12:02:29 am »
Thats sweet! What do you use for fish points on the arrows? Patrick
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Offline bowmo

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Re: Bowfishing set up
« Reply #5 on: June 17, 2015, 12:13:51 am »
Thanks guys!

leb: I posted these points a while back. The one I made is the top one.

And I should have explained more. The shafts are cane, the fletching is duct tape, the slider is a cut and drilled wiring nut, the spool is a bottle, and the bracket is a cap bolted to a piece of sheet metal that you tape to the bow.





 
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Offline lebhuntfish

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Re: Bowfishing set up
« Reply #6 on: June 17, 2015, 12:39:33 am »
Thats really cool bowmo. I must have missed your post with the fish points. That is some pretty good ingenuity there! Very nice, I may have to try something like that myself.

By the way, I noticed your name is "bowmo" I was  wondering if you are from Missouri? If so where abouts? I'm in the Springfield area. Patrick 
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Re: Bowfishing set up
« Reply #7 on: June 17, 2015, 01:05:57 am »
Haha. I know it's misleading. I'm actually from northern Illinois. My dad just use to always call me a bowmo when I was like 18. It was a joke that I was gay for bows since all I did was make them, shoot them, and talk about them non stop.  ::)
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Offline lebhuntfish

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Re: Bowfishing set up
« Reply #8 on: June 17, 2015, 10:16:54 am »
Thats hilarious! Patrick
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Offline Trapper Rob

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Re: Bowfishing set up
« Reply #9 on: June 17, 2015, 12:16:00 pm »
Nice setup.
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Offline bow101

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Re: Bowfishing set up
« Reply #10 on: June 17, 2015, 10:10:22 pm »
Quote from: DC on June 16, 2015, 11:31:44 pm
That's neat. Too bad it's illegal up here. How do you keep the line from running off before you're ready?
You can bow fish Carp and one other species in BC.   Heck I picked up a good Reel for $4 at a garage sale the other day.   And the thrift shops have lots.
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Re: Bowfishing set up
« Reply #11 on: June 25, 2015, 11:53:24 pm »
Neat rig! I really need to try bowfishing.
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Re: Bowfishing set up
« Reply #12 on: June 26, 2015, 09:09:44 am »
Clever diy setup.
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Offline RBLusthaus

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Re: Bowfishing set up
« Reply #13 on: June 26, 2015, 11:37:22 am »
I cant really tell from the pix.  What stops the wire nut / line attachment thing from crushing the fletch and running off the back of the arrow when you shoot it? 
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Offline bowmo

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Re: Bowfishing set up
« Reply #14 on: June 27, 2015, 02:02:40 pm »
Thanks guys.

RBL: it actually is the tape the duct tape catches it, before it can get over the fletching the tape wrapped in front of it expands to diameter bigger than the inside of the wiring nut slider.
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