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in reply to: Predator Recipes #11856
Personally, I wouldn’t kill one unless I had to. As far as eating them goes, I have been told that as soon as you take a whiff of that first coyote you clean you would abandon all thoughts of eating it….
in reply to: looking for T.B.H. in Dubois Wyoming #61708Dave… I may be wrong, but I think Patches is looking for an actual “traditional bowhunter” in Dubois, not “Traditional Bowhunter Magazine”.
in reply to: Hunting Hats for 2010 #61701Here’s mine. It’s a Stetson, although I don’t remember the model. Had it for quite a few years.
in reply to: Recurve or longbow your choice and why? #61677I love them all, and shoot them all. In fact, just tonight I shot a Bear t/d, a Great Northern Bushbow, a Frank SanMarcos longbow, and a Bear Super K!
Never had much trouble switching back and forth between different styles, and understand what Don was talking about different situations calling for different bows. Besides deer hunting I love to hunt squirrels, and have always felt that a longbow was much better suited to that task (at least for me) because of all the weird shot angles and quick shots involved.
in reply to: What type of bow and arrow will you use this year #61306An old Bear green-stripe t/d, about #68 at my draw, shooting 2216’s with about 200gr up front, and Ace Standard broadheads.
in reply to: predator bows #61220I had a predator custom for awhile, and wish I still had it! Beautiful, well-made, quiet, and one of the best shooting t/d recurves out there (for me, anyway). The shelf is cut very low so the arrow is right above your knuckle, which I always thought made for “shoot where you’re looking” kind of set-up. As for physical weight of the bow… I never noticed that it was any heavier than other 3-piece t/d recurves I’ve had.
in reply to: Tail cams?? #30559I don’t use them. Don’t necessarily think their use makes someone lazy; on the contrary, they probably represent a little more work as you have to lug the things around, set them up, go back and check them on a regular basis, etcetera. I do feel though, from a personal standpoint, that they represent just another intrusion of technology into an arena where it’s really not needed.
For me, I don’t want to know what every deer looks like in the areas that I hunt, or what all the bucks will score before I ever sit a stand there, or whatever. Half the fun for me is NOT knowing what’s going to show up. I want to be surprised. When a big boy shows up on some frosty morning I want my brain to be saying, “HOLY CRAP, LOOK AT THE SIZE OF THAT THING!”, not, “oh, there’s that typical 4×4 I have five pictures of already…”
in reply to: Wood Arrows???? #25330Somehow over the last several years, I think since carbon has gotten so popular, wood has gotten this bad wrap that it’s so fragile and expensive. I have to tell you, I’ve used mostly wood for the past fifteen years, with a little aluminum here and there, and I just don’t see it. I shoot year round, and do a lot of stump shooting, and I’ve never really messed up any more woodies (per capita) than aluminums. They’re simple to make (unless you want to get fancy), and if sealed properly I don’t have any problems with them warping, either. They do need to be fairly closely matched in spine, but as far as weight goes, at hunting distances I really doubt anybody would be able to notice any difference in POI between shafts that varied as much as 50 grains in total weight.
in reply to: Favorite Turkey Setup? #25305I haven’t made up the arrows yet, but I’ve got a half dozen 175gr Ace Super Express broadheads that are just screamin’ to be put through a turkey. If you haven’t seen these things up close, they’re a BIG two-blade. I’m going to make up a set of woodies to put them on, although I haven’t decided on colors yet. I usually do everything bright, because I love to watch them fly, but I think with turkey I’ll use some duller colors and put the flo green classic nocks on them for visibility.
in reply to: Your first whitetail? #50330I started bowhunting in 1996, and didn’t kill my first deer with the bow until 2001. I was pretty much self taught, and looking back I really didn’t have a clue what I was doing (not that I do now!). Just keep at it. You spend enough time practicing, and stumbling around out in the woods, and it’ll happen!
in reply to: God's Dog… #49098Cool story, Steve, and I love the “God’s dog” reference. I had never heard that before. I have always loved seeing coyotes. They’re amazingly adaptive animals, worthy of a bit more admiration than people give them. Where I live in the midwest they’re the biggest, and one of the few predators that we have, and as such they have always been a symbol of wildness for me.
in reply to: Anyone ever break their bow hand? #44436A few years back I broke both bones in my bow arm, right at the wrist. They did surgery a couple days later, and from the x-rays it appeared that they installed a garden rake in my arm (plate, a few screws, and several rods going into the hand). The break happened on July 11. The funny part was, I always had shot bows in the 60# class, had wanted to bump up my weight, and had actually just made a trade with a gentlemen on another site. The day after I had the accident I took delivery on a Hill Big Five that drew around 83# at my draw length. Within a couple weeks of my surgery they took the splint off, and within a week of that I was already secretly test drawing my bows (wife’s a nurse, and would have killed me!). I was actually shooting that bow within a couple months of my surgery. All I can say is be dilligent about your physical therapy… do what they tell you to do, even when it hurts, and do whatever else you can on top of that. I remember constantly moving that hand as far as I could move it in all directions, while I was sitting around at home. And this started while I still had the splint on. When all was said and done I got 100% of movement back in that hand, even though I had been told by the doctor that I would most likely only end up with about 90% of what it was. KEEP THE FAITH, work hard at it, and you’ll be back shooting before you know it.
in reply to: Stick and String Squirrel hunt 09 video! #43400Great video, Chris! Keep’em coming.
in reply to: Can anyone identify this BEAR recurve? #35011It’s a newer (since the late 1990’s) Bear model. Specs are the same as the super k, but they used the camo wood. I don’t believe they made them for that long because that’s only the second one I have seen. The first was a used bow in bow shop near my home, and that was at least 6 or 7 years ago. I’m sure someone just tried to refinish it, which is why there is no marks on it. I always thought that camo wood looked pretty cool on it. I have a 1998 Super K, and it’s a great shooter, but a little on the plain side compared to the camo wood.
in reply to: Defining "Traditional" Bowhunting #44462I have always looked at this question from two different angles. First, there’s the angle of what one thinks of as “traditional” in their own mind. What is their personal definition of what traditonal bowhunting tackle is, or is not. The second way to look at this is in the sense of how would you want traditional defined in a more official sense, such as if your state natural resources department was going to designate a piece of ground as a “traditional archery only” area, such as has been done (I believe) in some western states.
As for what I consider to be traditional, it would be a longbow, recurve, or some hybrid of the two, made of wood or a combination of wood/fiberglass, and fixed, non-replaceable blade broadheads. Although I prefer wood arrows, I have used aluminums on occasion. Never tried carbon, but don’t really have anything against them.
If I was thinking of it from the aspect of an official designation, the only thing I would change would be to require wood arrows.
From a broader prospective, I would agree with what several others have already said, in that “traditional” has a lot to do with the hunter’s attitude, probably as much as anything.
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