Neat little story

[tailfeather]

#3903

While looking for selfbow info, I stumbled across this short piece in a gun blog in Field and Stream, of all places. Worth a quick read.

http://www.fieldandstream.com/blogs/gun-nuts/2011/11/self-bow-buck-best-day-rut

[jmsmithy]

#25397

Nice to see, ESPECIALLY from F&S :shock::shock: 8)

[Stephen Graf]

#25821

I like the artwork on the bow. It always amazes me to see what people come up with to put on such a seemingly limited canvas.

[strait-aero]

#26024

A really neat story.8)

[Dan Sweeney]

#27631

Interesting and well done. I just like/shared it on my FB wall and, sadly, I was only the second Like that article has received. It isn’t getting a lot of play among the conventional hook-and-bullet crowd.

[Stephen Graf]

#28059

I think it’s because people just can understand why a person would hunt with such equipment. Why put in all that time to go hunting, and then take such an inefficient weapon? The majority of people in this more-for-less consumerism driven country just can’t see it.

I always expect that when I tell people about how I hunt with a home made longbow, and how I actually manage to kill something from time to time, they would be impressed. But the usual reaction seems more along the lines of: “why would a smart guy like you hunt with such a silly old thing?”

Our great hope lies in the fact that, unlike cats, people can truly change. But for a person to change that much requires an epiphany… And to change a culture, that’s a lot of epiphany’s to come by.

[William Warren]

#28594

Hook and bullet crowd. Lol that is funny. Wonder what they call us?

Steve, I had a friend say the same thing to me when I quit the compound after 2 years of hunting with it to go back to my recurve bows. He did not understand me because our perception of “challenge” was different. Killing any deer with trad equipment at close range is the challenge I wanted. Killing a lot of deer and quality deer was his challenge. His goals were just not my goals so we parted ways. It is interesting that I did not see the new culture coming but I should have. My friend had already bought into it lock stock and barrel way back then.

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