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Main Discussion Area => Arrows => Topic started by: bowmo on June 16, 2015, 10:59:14 pm

Title: Bowfishing set up
Post by: bowmo 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.

 
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/wakolbinger/IMG_85581.jpg)

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/wakolbinger/IMG_85611.jpg)



Slow-mo video of it.

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

Title: Re: Bowfishing set up
Post by: 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?

Title: Re: Bowfishing set up
Post by: bowmo 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.

Title: Re: Bowfishing set up
Post by: koan on June 16, 2015, 11:44:20 pm

Nice rig!.... Brian

Title: Re: Bowfishing set up
Post by: lebhuntfish on June 17, 2015, 12:02:29 am

Thats sweet! What do you use for fish points on the arrows? Patrick

Title: Re: Bowfishing set up
Post by: bowmo 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.

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/wakolbinger/11428136_10153397501428524_714156499273366845_o.jpg)



 

Title: Re: Bowfishing set up
Post by: lebhuntfish 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 

Title: Re: Bowfishing set up
Post by: bowmo 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.  ::)

Title: Re: Bowfishing set up
Post by: lebhuntfish on June 17, 2015, 10:16:54 am

Thats hilarious! Patrick

Title: Re: Bowfishing set up
Post by: Trapper Rob on June 17, 2015, 12:16:00 pm

Nice setup.

Title: Re: Bowfishing set up
Post by: bow101 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.

Title: Re: Bowfishing set up
Post by: JacksonCash on June 25, 2015, 11:53:24 pm

Neat rig! I really need to try bowfishing.

Title: Re: Bowfishing set up
Post by: Knoll on June 26, 2015, 09:09:44 am

Clever diy setup.

Title: Re: Bowfishing set up
Post by: RBLusthaus 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? 

Title: Re: Bowfishing set up
Post by: bowmo 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.

Title: Re: Bowfishing set up
Post by: carpholeo on June 28, 2015, 12:20:23 pm

You dont need the vanes, the string keeps the arrow stable