Martin Tech Forum - Off Topic Forum http://martinarchery.com/mtechforum/ The place to go to discuss most anything not archery or Martin related. As always, keep it clean and civil. en Thu, 23 May 2013 13:39:25 GMT vBulletin 60 http://martinarchery.com/mtechforum/images/misc/rss.png Martin Tech Forum - Off Topic Forum http://martinarchery.com/mtechforum/ obsession bows http://martinarchery.com/mtechforum/showthread.php?26100-obsession-bows&goto=newpost Tue, 21 May 2013 15:45:56 GMT Anybody on here heard of these guys. im curious if they are american made. cant find much info on their site. Anybody on here heard of these guys. im curious if they are american made. cant find much info on their site. ]]> Off Topic Forum dzsmith http://martinarchery.com/mtechforum/showthread.php?26100-obsession-bows Something to think about http://martinarchery.com/mtechforum/showthread.php?26099-Something-to-think-about&goto=newpost Tue, 21 May 2013 15:26:17 GMT An arrow can only be shot by pulling it backwards. When life drags you back with difficulties, just imagine that it's going to launch you into something great:cool: ]]> Off Topic Forum HawgEnvy http://martinarchery.com/mtechforum/showthread.php?26099-Something-to-think-about My Son (Arrow Splitter) Graduates today! http://martinarchery.com/mtechforum/showthread.php?26089-My-Son-(Arrow-Splitter)-Graduates-today!&goto=newpost Sat, 18 May 2013 09:19:12 GMT My Son (Arrow Splitter) Graduates today! After 2 long years of working 2 jobs and going to school to become a machinist. He graduates today!! I am pretty proud of him he even got a job as a machinist before he was even done school.:D The best part is he is debt free and that is the best of... My Son (Arrow Splitter) Graduates today!

After 2 long years of working 2 jobs and going to school to become a machinist. He graduates today!! I am pretty proud of him he even got a job as a machinist before he was even done school.:D The best part is he is debt free and that is the best of all!

Thumbs up to you and Hats off to you son you have done well!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hutch:cool: ]]> Off Topic Forum Hutch~n~Son Archery http://martinarchery.com/mtechforum/showthread.php?26089-My-Son-(Arrow-Splitter)-Graduates-today! Sale of Martin archery http://martinarchery.com/mtechforum/showthread.php?26085-Sale-of-Martin-archery&goto=newpost Thu, 16 May 2013 23:47:44 GMT Was at my local dealer to day picking up some monkey tails. He know that I'm a Martin fan and tells me that they sold. Any one know somthing or anything. Hope Joel chimes in. This may explain a few things on why back orders or taking a long time and why km hut is selling some frankin bow with acu-track cams like the 2012 alien z for $285. Not trying start a storm just asking. It is second hand info. Thxs everyone. ]]> Off Topic Forum Tosi http://martinarchery.com/mtechforum/showthread.php?26085-Sale-of-Martin-archery Check out this Bow Mailbox http://martinarchery.com/mtechforum/showthread.php?26075-Check-out-this-Bow-Mailbox&goto=newpost Tue, 14 May 2013 03:02:17 GMT I want one!. It would go great with my Flag pole with a rotating arrow on top. The Guy that made is Fafi Garcia. The pic came off of Facebook. Image: http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll52/Northwest75/Archery%20Pics/Bowmailbox_zps5b88454d.jpg ... I want one!. It would go great with my Flag pole with a rotating arrow on top. The Guy that made is Fafi Garcia. The pic came off of Facebook.


]]> Off Topic Forum Double S http://martinarchery.com/mtechforum/showthread.php?26075-Check-out-this-Bow-Mailbox NFAA website gone? http://martinarchery.com/mtechforum/showthread.php?26074-NFAA-website-gone&goto=newpost Mon, 13 May 2013 14:19:21 GMT I have been trying to get onto the NFAA website and keep getting the message that the domane name has expired, anyone else getting this? Don I have been trying to get onto the NFAA website and keep getting the message that the domane name has expired, anyone else getting this?
Don ]]> Off Topic Forum Don B http://martinarchery.com/mtechforum/showthread.php?26074-NFAA-website-gone Happy Mothers Day!!! http://martinarchery.com/mtechforum/showthread.php?26072-Happy-Mothers-Day!!!&goto=newpost Sun, 12 May 2013 11:54:46 GMT Happy Mothers Day!!! Happy Mothers Day!!!











you too Pinky!!:p










From Bow String Depot!!!



Hutch:cool: ]]> Off Topic Forum Hutch~n~Son Archery http://martinarchery.com/mtechforum/showthread.php?26072-Happy-Mothers-Day!!! Thanks to Hutch http://martinarchery.com/mtechforum/showthread.php?26059-Thanks-to-Hutch&goto=newpost Thu, 09 May 2013 22:40:50 GMT Just wanted to pop in and say hello, and a special thanks to Hutch. My rigs are now sporting new custom strings/cables from Hutch-n-Son Archery! Came in the mail today and I immediately headed to the garage. Just pulled em off the press, and they look killer. :D The fear meter of the wild hogs... Just wanted to pop in and say hello, and a special thanks to Hutch. My rigs are now sporting new custom strings/cables from Hutch-n-Son Archery! Came in the mail today and I immediately headed to the garage. Just pulled em off the press, and they look killer. :D The fear meter of the wild hogs here in South Carolina just went up a bit. Thanks again for getting them done so fast. Couldn't be happier! ]]> Off Topic Forum Skulldrag51 http://martinarchery.com/mtechforum/showthread.php?26059-Thanks-to-Hutch Do you like fast food http://martinarchery.com/mtechforum/showthread.php?26058-Do-you-like-fast-food&goto=newpost Thu, 09 May 2013 19:12:58 GMT deer, elk, rabbit kfc is ok deer, elk, rabbit

kfc is ok ]]> Off Topic Forum TEN RING http://martinarchery.com/mtechforum/showthread.php?26058-Do-you-like-fast-food The other surprise release aid http://martinarchery.com/mtechforum/showthread.php?26049-The-other-surprise-release-aid&goto=newpost Tue, 07 May 2013 03:59:45 GMT Well, cleaning up after the flood I've found a few things that I've forgot about. One is something I've never heard spoken of. I have a release trigger release. Yes, release trigger release. Perhaps some in might know what a release trigger is if Trap gun is noted. Just a trigger where you hold it back and held it go to fire. Back when I was Trap shooting every weekend and I mean every weekend I got to try a friends Browning over and under with release trigger. His Browning was of the higher end Brownings, not some run of the mill Citroi. So you shoulder, come to form (yes, form) pull the trigger and hold, call for the target and swinging through the target you release the trigger. Bang. Broken target. Well, if you the hit the target. Friend let me try until I was busting one target right after another. Gots to say it was neat.

I can't remember the name of the release. It is of the glove type wrist index release. Yes, you can fire it normal. And perhaps the manfacturer doesn't even know it will work as a release trigger release.

And I can't even remember how I found out. More than likely I was in tizzy of some sort. I went to snap the release head on the string and some how I had pressed the jaws together and pulled the trigger. Yeah, I was stunned, trigger back and jaws shut. When I let up my index finger the jaws opened.
Well, I had to try this. I figured out how to clamp the jaws on the string and pull with the index finger. Took I bit, but I came to full draw. Got on target and wham! The arrow was gone. Now that was what I called a surprise release, a real surprise release. I got use to it and shot it a bunch, but it took long to set compared to just snapping on the string. Never got brave enough to try it in competition.

I'll try to get a picture of the full release. Slip hand in, pull strap to tighten and you're ready. Pull the string and the strap comes loose. Neat sucker.

Here's some pics and hopefully in order. Some one might recognize the head.
Jaws open
Jaws closed with trigger forward
Jaws closed with finger holding trigger back
Jaws open when finger releases trigger
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]]> Off Topic Forum Sonny Thomas http://martinarchery.com/mtechforum/showthread.php?26049-The-other-surprise-release-aid friend suffering burn out http://martinarchery.com/mtechforum/showthread.php?26044-friend-suffering-burn-out&goto=newpost Mon, 06 May 2013 17:20:16 GMT During a 3D this past weekend I was informed one of my sidekicks had quit shooting. Said he was burned out. Well, he's too young to be burned out. And of all things I was informed he was really up in the air from being beat my a old man. So frustrated he had actually threw his bow some long distance into the timber. The 3D over and ratchet jawing with others I give him a call. He said he would come over, but wasn't shooting, so forget that. So I find out he had thrown his bow into the timber for sure. And beings it was a Elite bow I told him he should have left it there. That got him going. So to hasten things along I would stop at his house on the way home. Thinking "old man" I was one that would fill his ear but good.

So we talked. His burn out stems from him not doing what he should be, paying attention and doing things in order. "No reason in the world he should be beat by a old man" other than his own stupidity. And I related that this "old man" would clean his plow at the next 3D.

So I spend a hour with him and discussed form, check off list and more. When done he was of a much brighter attitude. And then I did dangle a pair of Stanislawski MoreX releases in his face and he got a bit more picked up.

Seems the simplest things can provoke one to give up archery and there's no senses to it. Archery is nothing repeating all throughout for each and every shot. You slip off the beaten path and you need some one to see it and have you get back on the path.

Don't blame the bow. That's the first thing I do, check a bow. If reasonably tuned and arrow flight good and I start on the shooter. I have this so many times over the past 5 years, shoot someone's bow and have great point of impact. May not be in the bull's eye, but the arrows all pile up in a neat little group. So that leaves the shooter.

Anyway, I hope my friend gets back on the "horse." Of course, nice guy me will be asking for a 40 point handicap ;) Not that I need it, but to razz his young butt. ]]> Off Topic Forum Sonny Thomas http://martinarchery.com/mtechforum/showthread.php?26044-friend-suffering-burn-out For you HUTCH http://martinarchery.com/mtechforum/showthread.php?26042-For-you-HUTCH&goto=newpost Mon, 06 May 2013 03:05:51 GMT Attachment 8058 (http://martinarchery.com/mtechforum/attachment.php?attachmentid=8058) I thought I saw HUTCH in a TV commercail the other day. GIDDY UP AMIGO!!!:p Name: hat.jpg Views: 81 Size: 47.4 KB


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]]> Off Topic Forum typically8 http://martinarchery.com/mtechforum/showthread.php?26042-For-you-HUTCH Droughts Fire And Hell in Calif. http://martinarchery.com/mtechforum/showthread.php?26036-Droughts-Fire-And-Hell-in-Calif&goto=newpost Sat, 04 May 2013 01:55:43 GMT Turkey season's been a bust. Did jump 2 does walking in the other morn. This is going to be a tough year as the river that leads to the lake where I hunt is already dry as a bone. Don't know how many deer will be there this year, I'll start rinning trail camera's in a couple of weeks. These fires really get me down (lungs), I think I need to move somewhere where the entire state doesn't burn down on a yearly basis. On a brighter note just ordered some strings from Hutch for the Bengal, they sould be the Cat's Meow.:D ]]> Off Topic Forum bob cooly http://martinarchery.com/mtechforum/showthread.php?26036-Droughts-Fire-And-Hell-in-Calif <![CDATA[Rytera's new mascott???]]> http://martinarchery.com/mtechforum/showthread.php?26035-Rytera-s-new-mascott&goto=newpost Fri, 03 May 2013 23:35:29 GMT aimed at Mathew's...?
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]]> Off Topic Forum HawgEnvy http://martinarchery.com/mtechforum/showthread.php?26035-Rytera-s-new-mascott Thank You Eastman Outdoors! http://martinarchery.com/mtechforum/showthread.php?26032-Thank-You-Eastman-Outdoors!&goto=newpost Fri, 03 May 2013 08:47:05 GMT My father was watching Eastman Outdoors on the Outdoor Channel last fall, and saw a picture of my grandfather with a trophy Dall sheep he had shot back in the early 60's. I sent Eastmans an e-mail, explaining who I was, and asking if they had any other pictures or footage. Gordon Eastman used to film my grandfather on a few of his hunts in Alaska, so I hoped they might. Guy Eastman replied, but said sadly they didn't. The film had degraded to the point it was useless. On a hunch, Guy then posted my e-mail on their website.

My grandfather was a big game hunter back in the 50's & 60"s. He passed away in 1973 when I was only 6 years old. The only real memories I have of him are few and far between. Mainly just stories I have heard from family, and people in our hometown who knew him. He was something of a local celebrity, and was semi-well known as a hunter nationwide. He'd been in advertisements for Hodgdon powders, Winchester, and a few others. Also had front page billing in the Jan. 1961 Field and Stream for an Alaskan trip that turned really bad. He and his guide were lost in Alaska for a week when their plane went down in a storm. Both survived miraculously enough.

Anyway, after a few months, Guy Eastman sent me an e-mail, asking if he could share my contact info with someone that had replied to the post he had put up on their website. I of course said yes. Someone had some old footage of his grandfather on a couple Alaskan hunts, and remembered hearing my grandfathers name mentioned in it. The person made a DVD copy of the footage, and sent it to me.

I received the DVD last week. I took it out to dad's to watch it. Told him it was just some old footage of a guy hunting in some of the same areas that grandpa used to. Well, 3 minutes into the DVD, there's my grandfather. 40 years after he passed away, and we were able to see him out doing what he loved best, hunting. There was a good 15-20 minutes of footage of him and a few other guys hunting Dall sheep and caribou, both of which grandpa got trophy animals. Those are two things I remember seeing mounted in his trophy room. As we watched in silence, through my own blurry eyes, I could see dad's eyes tearing up as well. It was a very heartfelt moment.

Had it not been for the kindness and thoughtfulness of Eastman Outdoors, and especially Guy Eastman, this would have never happened. It's the greatest gift I have, or ever could, receive. For that I am forever grateful. This tells me the kind of person that Guy is, and all the people involved in geting me this footage. These are the kinds of people that we need in the hunting commmunity. People that care enough to help others out when they can. I am forever indebted to Guy Eastman, and just wanted to publicly let everyone know. These people are heroes in my book. ]]> Off Topic Forum Ehunter http://martinarchery.com/mtechforum/showthread.php?26032-Thank-You-Eastman-Outdoors!