My New Northern Mist Whisper

[Patrick]

#4631

Ordered last year at the expo in Kalamazoo, I picked it up one year later at the same expo (It was at my request that it took so long). I had Steve make it with woods found in Michigan (elm and birdseye maple). What a smooth shooter it is!

A big thank you goes out to my “bow model”. 😆

As a personal touch, Steve added the “New Horizons” phrase to my bow. Taken from a song by the Moody Blues, there’s a personal meaning behind this, and I greatly appreciated that he took it upon himself to add it:

Now, off I go to fling a few arrows through it… 😀

[chromedome]

#32402

Nice bow Pat. Hey if your going to the Jamboree in June up in Grayling we should meet up and shoot a round. My time is pretty limited in the early Summer, but I should be able to sneak away for an afternoon.

[Fletcher]

#32429

Very nice, Patrick. Being crafted from native woods will give it great spirit and medicine when stalking your Michigan hunting grounds.

[Ripforce]

#35007

Shot a Whisper and a Shelton at KAZoo liked them both! Bernie had his eye on a No Mist but opted to a a Samick SLB, gotta say I watched him shoot lot of bows and he shot the Samick the best!

[Patrick]

#41019

chromedome wrote: Nice bow Pat. Hey if your going to the Jamboree in June up in Grayling we should meet up and shoot a round. My time is pretty limited in the early Summer, but I should be able to sneak away for an afternoon.

Thanks Jon. Sounds good to me. I’ll be there for sure this year.

[Patrick]

#41023

Fletcher wrote: Very nice, Patrick. Being crafted from native woods will give it great spirit and medicine when stalking your Michigan hunting grounds.

Thanks. I just need to make sure I do my part this year.

BTW, how come you didn’t have a booth in K-Zoo this year?

[Patrick]

#41030

ripforce wrote: Bernie had his eye on a No Mist but opted to a a Samick SLB, gotta say I watched him shoot lot of bows and he shot the Samick the best!

Bernie can just plain shoot!

Personally, I’m not a big believer in the whole idea of shooting one bow vs another and thinking one is better or worse for me than the other based on one session with each of them. How we shoot a previously unshot (by oneself) bow is going to be influenced by how other bows we shot (how you hold it, etc). To me, it merely reinforces the idea of staying with the same style bow. Not saying that the experience should be considered invalid, but I just don’t put much weight in it.

[Ed Ashby]

#41088

Patrick wrote: To me, it merely reinforces the idea of staying with the same style bow.

I’ll second that. I hunted near-exclusively with just one bow for 20+ years, until it was damaged trying to get it back out of Africa. It took over 300 animals without a single loss, and I attribute a lot of that to the relationship between the two of us – plus the arrows used. Total familiarity breeds absolute confidence. 8)

Ed

[Patrick]

#41102

Dr. Ed Ashby wrote: Total familiarity breeds absolute confidence.

Sometimes though, it breeds loathing. 😆

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