Don't generalize so much.
Why not, its easy to do and often I'm right on the frickin money.
I may shoot a compound, but I practice with it every day. My muscles still need to be trained, as I shoot with 65% let off. I still have to pick a spot, that pin has to be in the right place for a quick, clean kill.
Who are you trying to kid ? You shoot a compound because you don't want to put the effort into learning a recurve. You want the speed, the power, the sights, the release, the letoff ......... you want it easier.
And no, you do not pick a spot. Thats a HUGE misnomer in the bowhunting world of compounds. You pick a spot and then ....... cover it up ? How can you focus on the spot when its covered up with your pin ?
You can't. And the further the target, the more area the pin covers up.
I know ........ I hunted with compounds for 12-13 years and shot more arrows than most guys in their lifetimes.
Stealing rifles? What? No one is stealing game animals. I worked for the bow I own, so what was your point here?
You totally missed it. My point was that things that are earned are respected and cherished and they MEAN something.
A better scenario is you hunting public lands and shooting a 150" buck, and me paying for an EBAY hunt and shooting a 150" - which of our bucks mean more ? You know the answer ........ yours does. Why ?
No, I didn't build my compound, but that doesn't mean a thing.
Oh good gawd. When you search the woods, cut the tree, spend hours and hours making the stave into a bow, tillering it, taking the rings down, breaking a few and then having one come out that shoots and killing something with it ......... you cannot see how much the greater reward would be ? Even the bow itsself has a great value - much more personal and intimate than the compound you bought from Cabela's
Yes, I walk everywhere because I find that using an ATV makes the hunt less of a challenge.
ATV users will hate you for saying that you know ?
I don't own a lick of clothing made for blocking scent, I hunt the wind.
People who use scentlok will hate you for saying that.
I don't own a trail cam nor do I own a feeder. Likewise I don't throw out piles of corn. I hunt the trails. Yes, I can read the sign.
Then you kinda get what I'm saying, don't you ? The above things you don't do ........ why ?
Please don't generalize.
I'm very good at it. You see the things I see
Washington Hunterwhen we look at others. Where you're lacking is when I look at you, and you cannot see what I see.
Your compound bow is a shortcut, its the easy route, it takes away from your hunt just like ATV's, cameras and piles of corn.
And honesly, I can look at myself and see that my laminated longbow I use takes away from my hunt when a man who builds primitve equipment looks at me. And I know this