ORIGINAL: Vabowman
Who was there bowhunting in the 1970's?? what was it like?? did you feel like a loner?? did you only bow hunt?? did anyone poke fun at you?? let's hear it...and see some pics if you can get them..
I don't remember it because frankly I was still a twinkle in my Daddy's eye... but he was bowhunting in the 1970's.
He'd tell you that you got ONE DEER a year.... no matter what you shot it with.... and that is also the reason he started semi-professionally training bird dogs. He'd tell you too there were hardly ANY other hunters.... and a PILE more grouse than there are now. At least in Smyth and Bath County, VA. Trapping was good, and the fur prices were better then than they are now... and $5 was still a lot of money back then.