ORIGINAL: Dryridge
Hi guys. Some of you may know me from the boards, but this is my new bowhunting base. If you don't know, I am disabled following many, many surgeries required for a spinal birth defect that had left me paralyzed for much of my childhood and a terrible vehicle accident in 2004. I had trauma from my head to my crotch. Again, all the king horses and all the kings men put ol Davey Dumpty together again.
I was a former pro staff shooter for the #2 selling bow company...the split limb guys. I had a Mathews made special for me, but just couldn't shoot it at a point that I could ethically hunt with it. Fortunately the same year my state passed a law for handicapped hunters to use a CB. SO, this year, for the first time ever, I will be in the woods with a horizontal bow.
Will have to hunt from the ground.
Not much to say for that one but sorry for all your pain you have been through. I had a friend in junior High school that was in a wheel chair and was always having lots of surgeries right on his lower back. He was never going to walk but he was having surgeries to correct a nerve problem since he was always in alot of pain! Hopefully you can stay out of the hospital for a while!
Here is my set up.
Horton Hunter 200lb bow with scope, quiver, crank, pull cocking aid, etc.
Carbon 20" bolts that most likely will be tipped with Magnus Stingers or NAP shockwaves.
200# Horton? You must have one of the new legacy's? Most all of the Horton's where 175, but a few where 200# Which one do you have? Just curious.
My blind is a Eastman Outdoors. Hub style looks like a tent w/hubs in the ends. The entire ends are shooting windows. It too has never been in the woods.
Blinds are great, just remember if you are in a awkward shooting position and are close to the side walls, them limbs only go one way and that is out! Lots of guys, and some on here have ripped the side of there blind open like a zipper and missed deer because of being to close to the sides!
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What is the effective range of my setup on whitetails....assuming I am shooting well, what range is ethical from the penetation standpoint?
This is a debatable thing and has even got me in trouble a few times on here! LOL!! I personally would not go past thirty, maybe on the perfect day thirty five. CB's are real loud compared to what you are used to and string jump is that much easier with a CB IMO. Can you spank arrows into a target at fifty and forty? Sure you can, but I would have a hard time going past thirty. Thats just me though... The only time I have never had a pass through was on a spine shot once, and I plan on never doing that again!
Is there any advantage/disadvantage of shooting a Fixed vs Mechanical from a CB?
On my old Horton Super Mag I shot Muzzy Four blades for a long time with no problem. When I got the new Super Max 175 which was faster I was having alot of "flyer's" and switched to the New Tekan II's and they flew excellent for me. I have not shot any b-heads out of my new Excal yet.
How are crossbows viewed where you live?
I am lucky to live in Ohio, we have been allowed to use them since the mid seventies so most of the die hard folks that want to divide the hunting community and keep hunters out of "their" woods have either stopped hunting, got to old, or are taking a dirt nap! For the most part here in Ohio it is well received. Where I work over half of us use a CB.
If you were a Die Hard Bowhunter and HAD to go this route, is the thrill still there and to the extent it was the vertical bow?
Does not matter what you use to archery hunt with. If playing the twenty yard game and it does not make your heart go pitter patter and your throat choke up, then you should stop hunting! Already being a Bow hunter you know how that feeling is and with a CB in your hand it will still be there!
Thanks So Much for making me welcome in this new endeavor, one I am feeling very sort of mixed emotions about anyway.
Dave in WV
Welcome to the CB forum and you will have a great time in here! This is a good group of close nit guys that enjoy helping each other! You will find lots of info in here and get all your questions answered! I have a brother and aunt in South Williamson, just north of Pike Ville Kentucky. My Mother is from Delbarton WV and grew up in Mingo county.