Category: Archery and such

I took my recently refurbished 25-year-old Reflex Xtreme to the range to try it out: I clocked 425-grain arrows at an average of 245 fps, which equates to 56.57 ft-lbs of kinetic energy and .46 slug-fps of momentum.

In other words, it was hitting pretty hard. Not grizzly bear or Cape Buffalo hard, but certainly enough to dispatch the stoutest of zombies.

In a previous post I talked about paper tuning an old compound bow. Never one to leave well enough alone, I decided to go back and recheck the tune on my traditional bows while I was at it.

First up, my Howatt Savannah.

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I bought my first compound bow–a refurbished 2016 PSE Stinger X–from the bargain cave at Cabela’s. Having only shot recurves and longbows before that, I was hugely impressed by this newfangled technology .

It recently occurred to me that it was past time to change strings and cables. You should do that every couple of years–it’s been seven and my Stinger still had the originals.

But rather than take it back to the pros at the bow shop, I decided to do it myself.

One of my New Year’s resolutions was to get back into the regular practice of archery. It’s been awhile, mainly because I had trouble finding someplace to shoot…

Ever since I can remember, I always wanted to be able to throw knives and tomahawks. I remember Fess Parker splitting a pine trunk with a tomahawk in the opening credits for “Daniel Boone” back in the 60’s…