<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote<font size=1 face='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica' id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>The thing about this soap box that really bothers me is the kids reading this stuff and getting scared to ever try to bowhunt. They think they better have a rangefinder, mechanical heads, pendulum sights and a ..... or they should never walk into the woods. <hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica' size=2 id=quote>

Add to that list that they might think they'd better have a bow shooting 300 fps or stay home. Speed, speed and more speed. If you don't have speed, you can't hit anything. That's the big message that seems to be right up top nowadays.

No, you're wrong about my dad. He didn't know beans about bows and arrows and was a gun hunter, all the way. I had a granddad that made a few bows for me when I was little and was taught how to shoot with pinch draw and no anchor, like he learned from his friends that lived on the reservation. Shot that way with homemade, all wood bows and arrows and then a solid glass recurve for years, killed lots of critters like that too, until I took an archery class in college and learned I was doing it all wrong and the white man's way is the only true form of shooting a bow. <img src=icon_smile_shock.gif border=0 align=middle>

More important than how to shoot a bow, my dad, granddads, uncles and older cousins taught me how to get close to game. Close enough that I couldn't hardly miss. Even shooting 'wrong.'

In other words, we don't need all that speed. We simply need to get closer. Easier said than done, for sure. But if we wanted easier, wouldn't we be hunting with a rifle or shotgun instead?
Remember that old saying... 'Archery the art of seeing how far away you can get from something and still be able to hit it. Bowhunting is the art of getting close enough that you can't miss.'