I think I am done with archery

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It just doesnt excite me anymore! Too much work for too little reward:uhoh:

Now All I can think about are the long smoke polls??? Anyone else out there deal with this
 
Ya i cant do archery. broke my left elbow about 20 something years ago. Well right arm is fine left arm i cant hold the bow out as soon as i go to pull back the string the left elbow instantly wants to bend. Cant keep it straight. So there goes archery.
 
Ha! Funny. I was spending time with The Boy today as it is the last of his spring break.

Rather than messing up any iron we broke out the crossbow. As we put it awau we eyed the compound bows and moms Lil' Bear recurve, but Mom insisted we do SOME chores today.

Yes, mowers are cranking for the first time in months all over our glorious country here in the US this week. I am still thinking of painting my zero turn mower in a WWII german splinter pattern, but the wife fails to see the utility in it.

I showed her an ad for a .69 cal model BP cannon....think it would be neat mounted on the front of the mower in a naval friction/pivot mount. What do we need money for?

-Bob Hollingsworth
 
Don't know about your skill level, but I decided years ago that I would probably be more effective hunting with a ball peen hammer:D
 
Scrat,

no I wasn't saying "Ha!" to your elbow, we crossed one another in posting, but to his refinding BP and considering leaving his sticks and sring behind while I set aside the BP guns to day to fling arrows.

-Bob Hollingsworth
 
Ok damn you kbob. now i want to customize my lawnmower. wonder if i can make it look like a sherman tank
 
Well, I shoot lefty, but am a righty. My right eye is pretty poor, can't see well enough to shoot, for sure. Severe astigmatism. So, I've turned to handguns and now BP. I've shot cap and ball for years, but not rifles until the mid 90s. Now, I'm all worked up wanting to hunt with it before my aging eyes get much worse. My Contender has a scope on it, I cheat.

We have no primitive weapons season here for black powder, but I own my own land and set my own rules. :D I can take 'em with a handgun, I can take 'em with a Hawken. I've only taken one past 100 yards out there. I wouldn't have shot at that one with a Hawken, but could have taken the others. I've taken a couple under 50 yards with a .357 magnum iron sighted Blackhawk. They'd been just as dead with the Hawken. I would say deader, but it's hard to get deader than dead.

I simply cannot hit the side of a barn from inside the danged barn with a bow. I've tried, gave up a long time ago. Just ain't got the right eye for it and don't really wanna try drawing left handed or waste money on a left handed bow. I suppose if I'd been born 10,000 years ago, unless I was good with an atlatl, I'd have starved. Well, I don't know, them mammoths are BIG targets. Not sure I'd wanna take one on with a rock tipped stick, though. :eek::eek:
 
Now All I can think about are the long smoke polls??? Anyone else out there deal with this

LOL, I think Geronimo did:uhoh:
 
I shoot both..
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And have taken quite a few Deer, 3Turkey, 1 Bear & countless squirels with Archery gear too.
 
I had a pop at it way back when. Got sucked into the whole English longbow thing for a while. Apparently we're still obliged by law to practice every Sunday. I just went down the pub instead. Probably best. I was rubbish.
 
I am the opposite. I love bowhunting...... and I'm good at it. I have shot 2 animals in the last 25 years with a gun.... and that was 15 years ago. I love the rush of bowhunting. I have nothing against rifle hunters, I just love the bow. I am starting to rifle hunt varmints now though.
 
I was and still am pretty good with a bow! Killed alot of critters with them over the last 15 yrs. Just sick of all the fuss with modern archery.
 
I am just the opposite. I am kinda sick of rifles, still enjoy shooting them but I have not rifle hunted in a few years. My first love is archery when it comes to hunting. The handgun hunting then BP. It has been several years since I have taken a shot over 75 yards so the rifle thing is well a little to easy. Who knows I was through with rifles until I joined this forum so maybe I'll rekindle my love of them.
 
I try and shoot both, but I find when archery season is over and BP begins. I'm in the woods with my BP rifle up until the end of deer season.Then I just sit and wait for spring turkey and take out the BP rifle for that too. Only have 3 BP's but I have 5 Bows mostly recurves.
 
txcookie said:
I was and still am pretty good with a bow! Killed alot of critters with them over the last 15 yrs. Just sick of all the fuss with modern archery.
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Why do you think I've turned my eyes twords a more traditional approach?

I've been shooting Archery as long as if not longer than I have any firearm "at least 33 years" & yes I've gone to the training wheels & other gadgets but a simple Recurve or Long Bow properly tuned for the shooter & the pleasure it gives of waiting for the critter to get closer for that shot is a joy that only can be described as being one with Nature & enjoying the moment.

I still have 1 compound left in my inventory but depending on the way things go it may not stay for long.

WOW Cpt. America, you sound almost like me in respects to your inventory.
 
I hunt with a crossbow here in Ohio. The archery season here starts early and lasts all the way to the end of January with only a couple interruptions for guns season. I like it because it gives one a lot of opportunity to harvest with the season as long as it is. We're also allowed to hunt over bait in Ohio, although the DNR claims that doing so doesn't increase your odds of harvesting deer. We go through almost 2000 lbs of shelled corn a season. The spot I hunt is private property that butts right up against a nature preserve, so I don't have to worry too much about hunter pressure. Here in Ohio, you can only harvest 1 buck, but you can take up to 5 additional does with the proper tags, that's a lot of venison!
 
Still doing archery here. 2 compound bows and 1 recurve, I've taken more deer with bow in the past 5 years than I have with rifles.

Just getting back into BP this year. Rotator tear in my right should has limited the archery. Doc said to take it easy or surgery would be the answer.
 
both my shoulders need to be rebuilt and i have buldging discs in my neck. I use a crossbow now. had to get a disabled permit to use it during archery. the disadvantage i noticed right off the start was how heavy and awkward the crossbow is.
 
My bow is a recurve, never owned one with wheels on it, and sights. I got this thing in college from a guy I was working with on a summer job. I traded him 4 8 track tapes for it. That'll give ya an idea how long ago it was. LOL It's a "Colt Plainsman", only Colt I own and it ain't a firearm. I did get into bowfishing, put a rig on the bow. I'd hit about 1 gar out of 30 I shot at. LOL! It's fast, no time to aim, all instinctive. Gotta get 'em on the roll.

LONG rifles? I have a Cabela's Hawken Hunter Carbine. It's got a 20" barrel, 50 caliber, 1:24 twist, and left handed. I love that thing now, since I've learned all the tricks to its care and feeding. It's quite accurate with 360 grain Lee cast minies at 100 yards, minute of deer shoulder, anyway. And the little thing is about 6 lbs (don't kick THAT bad) and short and very, very handy and it has the flair of the traditional gun, not an inline. The gun is made by Investarms.
 
I like both...

but I probably love archery more than BP. I've been on a bow buying frenzy the last couple of months and have gone from owning one, to having seven in my possession and am making an eighth and ninth, and waiting on the building of my tenth one. Got my fletching gear, waiting on the arrival of my string making supplies too. I've got two bows with training wheels, but they're mostly just for the novelty sake. Traditional is where it's at in my book. Anyone can learn to line up a sight and pull a trigger... I wanna learn how to shoot spot on without the crutches

Don't get me wrong... I likes my T/C Cherokee and Patriot a LOT... :neener:
 
Well, dang, I'm going to have to get me one of them cube targets and some field arrows and start practicing again. I got to where, instinctive shooting, I could hit a deer shoulder from 25 yards, but that's about it with the recurve. Instinctive shooting takes constant practice. Really ain't aiming so the bum eye on that side don't matter as much. I just never got a compound because I know that eye ain't good enough to use sights on a modern compound.

I have a little 30 lb target bow, too, wife picked up at a garage sale, like the one I had as a kid. I've gotta get a string for that one, too.

I did enjoy the bow fishing. I could stab flounder with it, not sure the legality of that. But, you can gig 'em, so why not? Might look into it, but I don't much like going out at night. Used to have to use a gas lantern for a flounder light, but I bet some of those LED head lamps would put out enough flood lighting to flounder with, never thought about it.
 
Actually, I do both, I am 61 years old now but when I was 13 I had a bow and arrow set. I was at the shop on the ranch and I was on a quest to find a target. My dad and harvest crew were working on combines to ready for the harvest season. Dad told me not to shoot at the chickens with my new weapon. BUT, that hen produced an attractive target that never left my sight eye. I zeroed in on her behind and let fly. That arrow took to the air and went right up her rectum without drawing a drop of blood. She ran with great abandon right in front of my dad and the rest of the harvest crew with the arrow following very close behind. This hen did not die and I got off the hook, give up archery and got interested in guns as a shootin hobby instead of archery. In my opinion, guns are much safer than a bow and arrow!
 
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