The first time I sent an arrow after a deer from a recurve it disappeared through both lungs and landed in the dirt. Over the next two seasons ten more deer followed the first into my freezer in much the same way. Truth be known, I’ve killed a lot more animals since switching back to traditional archery tackle than I ever did previously.
I didn’t decide to hunt with recurves and longbows for an increased challenge in the woods, so I didn’t go into it expecting increased difficulty. I was raised in a family that took up bowhunting long before Allen ever went to the hardware store, so there was no double standard in our camp when it came to accuracy. A lack of wheels on the end of your bow limbs didn’t give you a free pass to spray arrows all over the place. Expectations were high. So were results. No one ever excelled by believing they couldn’t.
