I'm just getting ready to start my plunge into trad gear. Waiting for the Indian archery cheaply recurve I ordered for 60 bones to arrive. I've been putting it off for a couple years but couldn't any longer, shooting my compound has become almost boring. So I'm hoping this helps out. I also love to small game hunt but the shotgun just doesn't do it for me anymore. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I have since switched to a compound but I started off shooting my grandfathers traditional bow. He got me into bow hunting and it was my first experience with a bow. To keep it retro/throwback I still use a finger tab on my compound to this day.
I started bowhunting by making my own bow and arrows, I never could figure out how to make a compound.Q
I aggravated an old football injury to my right shoulder about 13 years ago when I drew my 64# compound without an arrow to release. When I let the bow down it felt like it ripped my arm off at the shoulder. Six weeks of therapy followed. The owner of The Archery Shop suggested I switch to traditional bows. He loaned me a 35#@28" recurve to partially draw as part of my therapy. Thirteen years and 200+ recurves and longbows later I'm now shooting only the Morrison Cheyenne listed in my signature. Bill
When I started over 50 years ago it was archery/bowhunting. Compounds were in their infancy. Sent from my iPad Mini using Tapatalk Bows, Broadheads and Backstraps
The thought of getting back to the basics, really appeals to me. I bought the traditional gear last year, and I am having a wonderful time learning. I have been in the stand this year with my Montana many times. My New Years Eve will be out in a heated stand, and my long bow!
Im still waiting on my Dwyer, but I like the simplicity of traditional. The thought of instinctive shooting intrigues me as well. However, I am sure I will always have a compound bow as well. Both are very appealing to me.
What weight recurve did you get? Sent from my iPad Mini using Tapatalk Bows, Broadheads and Backstraps
I got a IA Seneca off of eBay in perfect condition for 75 bucks. I draw about 48 pounds on it( way to much I know). Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Yeah, but the price was right! A guy gave me the same bow years ago. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I'm still very new to the bow so take this for what it's worth. I got the bug and started shooting a compound and though I liked shooting it, I wasn't a fan of the bow itself. All the sights and cams and thingamajigs and dooflatcheys, it's a lot for a guy like me who prefers to keep things simple. Then a friend of mine from church invited me over to shoot some of his trad bows and it was love at first flight. I own a recurve now and can honestly say I doubt I'll ever look back to the compound. I need a lot more practice with it to be sure before I can do any kind of ethical hunting with it but that's a journey I think I'll enjoy. It's all about the experience to me more than anything else.
Boy Scouts, 1963. Dad bought me a 30# Ben Pearson then, and I used to shoot it over and over. Other friends received them as gifts, so we had a little club that would shoot targets in the back yard. We had a huge field behind us that was wonderful for estimating how far we could shoot accurately. BTW, I still have that bow.
I have 2 and my 10 year old son has 1. Ive only brought mine into the woods once and was it a strange feeling. I can't get it out of my head. My goal this year is to hunt with it. Definitely have to get into better shape to shoot it responsibly.
Watching Robin Hood growing up... reading The Hatchet which inspired me to wanting to build my own bow and make my own arrows. Made the bow from a maple board, thing shoots slower than heck with 49LBS@29", but I want to keep making them... for now I don't have the tools because they are being shipped and put in storage for a few months until my family can figure out where to move into. So I will be using a Samick Journey when it comes in the mail in a days... can't wait. Love the thought of getting meat that came from an animal that ran around wild for its whole life with out any of the antibiotics and crap livestock have in them. The animals lived the happiest lives they could have, no feed lots or anything. What better way to spend your time than with a primitive weapon in a wild place with no attachments to the bow dealer as you breathe the fresh air? Why bother with the technological bows? Something goes wrong with it you have to either fix it on the spot, take it home, or take to the bow shop to have it fixed. With a trad bow the only thing that can wrong is... uh oh the string breaks, well shucks might as well get the spare one out... no sights, stabilizers, or other hubajoobs to worry about. Arrows are a different story though. I admit to using carbon arrows and politely state that I am still learning to shoot and see the value of using something that is durable to learn to shoot with. I intend to go fully traditional when I am comfortable enough shooting the bow. That being said can't wait to shoot again! I do still need to get a license and will say I have not been on a hunt, but I did grow up fishing and spent some time also spear fishing. In my mind fishing and hunting are the same, they're both hunting just different methods and equipment used for different animals. Spearfishing is more like hunting though... you're not luring the animal to you... you are literally stalking the fish, but most times the fish sees you and gets away.
Being 4 or 5 years old back in 1975-76, watching cowboys and Indians on TV..my uncle and I went out and cut off a couple of nice branches and some twigs got some old shoe strings and played for days... then somewhere around 10 years old I was given my first traditional bow.
Well I was watching as David Peterson calls it the "Outhouse Channel" and every single time they would take an animal they would say I couldn't of done this without my "x" and am just sick of the product placement they have on these shows, I know they have to sell their sponsors. That and I really love the core of archery from its past and the challenges that they faced before all of the high tech equipment.
When we were kids all my friends and I would carve out bows from saplings and try to shoot them, they all didn't think too much of it but I loved it, something clicked. I started buying hickory boards and making basic bows, then laminating them and shooting rabbits. 8 years later and Im an all out bowhunting addict haha. I always like good old wood stock guns vs synthetic, just kind of the way it should be in my mind, so I think its that bias that always reels me back to the "real" bows. Haven't had the balls to bring one in the deer woods yet though
Dude you are soooo right! Its insane some of the first words that come out of peoples mouths when they kill an animal man
I've sold all my wheel bows. Mathews and Elite were the last two to go. I did so, and bought a OMP Smokey Mountain Hunter which is I think a Samick Sage re-branded. I love the bow. I am not required to have a bow press any more, or take it in to the pro shop. It's lighter and simpler. Most important it's more fun than I have ever had shooting. I hate to say it, but kinda got caught up in the whole speed thing. I know now what it means when I hear the saying "less is more".
