If I had a dollar for every unsubstantiated rumor I hear on forum A about forum B I'd be rich. Drama llamas abound on the internet, no matter the forum.
I never bothered with snake gaiters out west, but deer hunting in the south often involves busting waist high grass in the dark for me... Yeah, I am pretty religious about snake gaiters down here.
That is the goal. it's all been experimenting and prototyping to date. This batch is the first that made it to completion. Had to learn how to do bluing, and some very finicky cuts with a bandsaw and router. I wanted to go with stainless steel for the frame, but the raw material cost was...
Just finished a couple prototype fly boxes up. I wanted something that felt like an old english shotgun. Figured out a way to fiberglass reinforce walnut so I could get it to be warp free and 3/32" thick without being fragile.
OP, you can use hot water on the end of the arrow shaft to loosen hot melt without damaging the carbon. Personally I have had the best hotmelt success with Kimsha Hot melt.
Secondly, the steering of broadheads or vanes is due to turbulence/drag. That air disruption from the broadhead smooths...
Dave, I haven't ever posted on here, but I watched you walk through this from afar. As all of us probably can attest, I've felt a small measure of the grief you've been dealt and I am so sorry.
Coming in late on the answer for this, but I like big articulated flies. Preferably with a deceiver style back end, and either a muddler head, or a stacked bucktail front half that gives a very tall/thin profile. Either one can give some funky movement in the water, and you will be shocked at...