Been hunting with a compound for over 23 years but decided to only use my trad. equipment from now on, no matter how long I need to practice. I’ve been shooting with a nameless longbow for a month or so. Unfortunately my bow gave in last week, but instead of buying a new one I decided to enter a new world by building one myself. This proved to be quite challenging for there is not that much info available in South Africa about native wood selection. Anyway, I’m going to try my best. So far the internet has been a honey hole of info on the hole building process. I’m so exited I struggle to sleep and keep on dreaming about this project. I just know going traditional will soot me as person like a glove and I’m looking forward to enter this new “world”. My firstborn’s name will also appear on the first decent bow I managed to create. His due on the 5th of October 2005.
The compound will not be used for hunting anymore but will be hanging on my wall to remind me of grate hunting experiences we had over the past years.