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Main Discussion Area => Shooting and Hunting => Topic started by: recurve shooter on June 10, 2009, 10:58:00 pm

Title: summer, show us your bowfishin rigs
Post by: recurve shooter on June 10, 2009, 10:58:00 pm: hi guys. its summer time and we cant kill furry critters anymore, but we can impale scales. i want to see some of yalls rigs, cuz right now my only bowfishin reel and arrow is on a compound. if nothing else plz explain your rigs to me. thank yall alot. happy shootin.
Title: Re: summer, show us your bowfishin rigs
Post by: mullet on June 10, 2009, 11:27:52 pm: What do you me we can't stick furry critters?, We can. ;D I'll post pictures of my bowfishing rigs tomorrow.
Title: Re: summer, show us your bowfishin rigs
Post by: recurve shooter on June 11, 2009, 12:53:36 am: :-X c'mon man we got to keep that on the down-low, keep em thinkin we're innocent. O:)

i just got done, uh, modifying my old compound reel to bolt onto a pice of steel pipe which i can tape to my riser and shoot. just finished it and im waiting on epoxy to dry on my new garr point. i'll try to get pics up soon.
Title: Re: summer, show us your bowfishin rigs
Post by: Hillbilly on June 11, 2009, 07:34:29 am: Here's what I'm using- old beater ash selfbow with a hand-wind tie-on reel. Oh, and groundhogs are good summertime bowhunting practice here, taste good, too.

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Title: Re: summer, show us your bowfishin rigs
Post by: recurve shooter on June 15, 2009, 04:36:26 pm: cool. i got 3 small gar with mine friday. that 55 lb bow will do a number on em.
Title: Re: summer, show us your bowfishin rigs
Post by: donnieonetrack on June 22, 2009, 04:38:29 pm: Osage recurve, 888 reel

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Title: Re: summer, show us your bowfishin rigs
Post by: recurve shooter on June 22, 2009, 04:39:35 pm: nice! thats a pretty big gar there.
Title: Re: summer, show us your bowfishin rigs
Post by: ballista on July 17, 2009, 01:18:25 pm: heres a carp i shot a few weeks back, 17 pounds. dont let anyone talk you out of eating a carp, we were generous when flaying it, and we brined it for a while and smoked with applewood- honest to god, it tasted like beef jerkey haha. great gar pics, hopefully i can get a tape on reel like you guys. -jimmy

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Title: Re: summer, show us your bowfishin rigs
Post by: recurve shooter on July 17, 2009, 02:35:22 pm: nice carp. i dont know where to find them down here, but i know that gar is also concidered trash, but if done right its delicious. and my hunting budie is useing the exact same reel as you, and it works fine. we all use tape on reels cuz we CANT use the bolt on ones. ;D
Title: Re: summer, show us your bowfishin rigs
Post by: ballista on July 17, 2009, 03:54:59 pm: haha thanks, i guess i should have been more specifi- id have rather thaken it with a longbow i made vs. a t/d recurve i didnt make- oh, and how far south are you? those asian carp are tearing up the us, from what i heard there all along the missippi, who knows?
Title: Re: summer, show us your bowfishin rigs
Post by: recurve shooter on July 17, 2009, 04:25:09 pm: ah! now i get what you mean. im useing an old pearson bow, but i love the thing. and i am near lake ponchitrain. im sure they're back in the marshes, i just need to go find them
Title: Re: summer, show us your bowfishin rigs
Post by: ballista on July 17, 2009, 09:00:12 pm: yeah, up here there a damn nusience, they killed two guys from jumping out of the water, hitting them in the head, and knocking them out and off the boad, thus drowndin. honestly, they should let us shoot them with shotguns slugs haha.
Title: Re: summer, show us your bowfishin rigs
Post by: recurve shooter on July 18, 2009, 07:20:21 am: someone told me about that. man thats a messed up way to go aint it?
Title: Re: summer, show us your bowfishin rigs
Post by: ballista on July 18, 2009, 03:14:02 pm: amen to that, we should declair war on those bottom feeding SOB's ;D
Title: Re: summer, show us your bowfishin rigs
Post by: recurve shooter on July 18, 2009, 03:44:53 pm: lol. me and my bud are holding our territory against.....well pretty much anything with scales!
Title: Re: summer, show us your bowfishin rigs
Post by: recurve shooter on July 21, 2009, 12:30:05 am: got one of em!

this is one of the small gar i killed a while back, and my little budie that lives under the bridge.

(http://i786.photobucket.com/albums/yy146/ikillgarfish/071709_170300.jpg)

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Title: Re: summer, show us your bowfishin rigs
Post by: recurve shooter on July 21, 2009, 02:11:15 am: a few more pics

(http://i786.photobucket.com/albums/yy146/ikillgarfish/071709_201700.jpg)

(http://i786.photobucket.com/albums/yy146/ikillgarfish/071509_164700.jpg)
Title: Re: summer, show us your bowfishin rigs
Post by: Hillbilly on July 21, 2009, 07:46:03 am: Nice fish (and crustaceans ;D ) You got alligator gar down there? Have you seen our gar video under Anything Else?
Title: Re: summer, show us your bowfishin rigs
Post by: recurve shooter on July 21, 2009, 10:47:19 am: yeah hillbilly, those are gator gar. just verry small one's. i havnt seen the vid yet but i will go find it. ;D
Title: Re: summer, show us your bowfishin rigs
Post by: ballista on July 21, 2009, 06:01:18 pm: haha yeah, i made a blowgun that i mite try for bluegills with, ill post some pics of that today. not sure of its """ legal """ in illinois, ill check someday lol
Title: Re: summer, show us your bowfishin rigs
Post by: recurve shooter on July 21, 2009, 07:20:03 pm: lol. i hear ya! i tride it once but i couldnt hit squat. actually just got back from shooting at them with a bow, cant hit them with that either.
Title: Re: summer, show us your bowfishin rigs
Post by: Ironhead on July 21, 2009, 09:25:39 pm: Here's a red oak board that I just finished. I had some hackberry laying around that I was going to make into turkey calls, so I threw some on the lathe for the reel. I have had it out a couple of times, but the carp aren't cooperating ;)

(http://i745.photobucket.com/albums/xx96/burk_photos/DSCN6541.jpg)

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(http://i745.photobucket.com/albums/xx96/burk_photos/DSCN6550.jpg)

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Title: Re: summer, show us your bowfishin rigs
Post by: recurve shooter on July 21, 2009, 11:20:36 pm: holy crap! dude thats got to be the absolute coolest reels i have ever seen. what would it take to get you to make me one?
Title: Re: summer, show us your bowfishin rigs
Post by: Ironhead on July 21, 2009, 11:51:11 pm: Thanks, it's not that pretty now after having been shot a few times. I've had several requests for them. They really need to be a little bigger in diameter and a little deeper. If I get my hands on some nice wood I might try to make some this winter.
Title: Re: summer, show us your bowfishin rigs
Post by: recurve shooter on July 22, 2009, 12:27:29 am: sounds good. let me know when you get some made up.
Title: Re: summer, show us your bowfishin rigs
Post by: hedgeapple on July 22, 2009, 01:58:36 am: Ironhead, that is one awesome looking reel. I've been trying to think of how I could make one from wood. Not having a lathe or the skill to use one I figured it to be way too time consuming. I might could make a bow in the time it would take to make the reel. haha But, now that I've seen your design and how you attach it to the bow, I might have to try. :)
Title: Re: summer, show us your bowfishin rigs
Post by: ballista on July 22, 2009, 04:08:42 pm: recurve shooter, somehow i missed thoe pics, awesome shots man- those gar look prehistoric! and ironhead, awesome, awesome reel. id buy one if you sold em.
Title: Re: summer, show us your bowfishin rigs
Post by: recurve shooter on July 22, 2009, 04:14:20 pm: thanks ballista, you aint bad yourself. if you ever have the missfortune of being in south louisiana, let me know, we'll go stick something.