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what size works the best. If your bow is powerful is it hard get the arrows off the bottom of of the lake?

RE: bows
 

i use a 35 to 55 pound oneida osprey i set it low for night shooting (close shots) and crank it up for day shooting (longer or deeper shots) i also use shureshot heads 1/2 turn of the arrow and out it comes

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[:@] i have a recurve / 45 lbs it has no hole for the rest can i just put some mole skin on there
cuz we cant use compouds in my state only recurve or long[:@]

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check this site out, get a hold of Carver, he's from your neck of the woods and can fill you in on the regs for NY... I'm thinking you may be mixed up on the equipment issue... Carver is from just outside Rochester...
[link]http://www.nabs.sportsmensociety.com/community/index.php[/link]

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i use gas tank repair kit. it is a putty that you can mold to the shelf. hardens in about 15 mins. so you can adjust it to be shooting center. when hard it makes a great rest. if you want i can post pics but right now i have to go wack some fish

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Id like to see some pics

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I shoot 65 to 70 lbs. but basically only shoot daytime. I think 55 lbs is a good all-around weight. Getting arrows out of the bottom........HHHMMMMMM well at 65 lbs shooting in the cattails with a 4 barb head, sometimes it takes 2 guys pulling to get them out. Anywhere else its not bad at all. If I was shooting nighttime in cattails I would use a 2 barb head and lower my weight alot. I'll have a new strategy for the cattails during the day this year!

Good Luck!

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thanks :D

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rockfish, why dont you post that websight and try to get people to join get it going like this websight :)
i would but for some reason my computer wont let me

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Yall think a pse stingray is a good bow fer bowfishin? I was thinkin bout
gettin a new deer bow next year and tunin my pse into a bowfishin rig. I
think it is set at 50lbs now.

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here are some pics of the epoxy rests i make out of gas tank repair kit

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not sure what you're talking about... I have an active link to the site...

as for the epoxy rests, I've always used plumbers putty to do mine... this is a 2 part epoxy, that'll allow about 10 minutes of fooling around to adjust your center shot... the way it looks, we're both getting about the same results... I went back and readjusted this one after it had set up but it still works fine...

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when you build these epoxy rests, you want to leave a high point in the center of the rest to allow only minimal contact with the arrow... I use a rat tail file to work this up after the epoxy dries, that's why I had to add to this rest because I screwed up the first time around...

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rochfish i mean have a post with that websight, it will help get the web sight started like this one (hunting.net) i would but for some reason i can only "fst reply" i can post[:@] computer problems

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excuse me, but my "ole timers" is acting up again... had to reread your post again to finally figure out what you were saying... I'm gonna have to start drinking again so I have an excuse for being so dense sometimes... :D

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its fine :) maybe you were dreaming abouyt a big carp under the spot light

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because they were in the process of opening a new site up... and it just opened yesterday...

[link]http://www.bowfishingsociety.com/[/link]