Do You Doubt The PRB?
#261
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Saxonburg Pa
Posts: 3,925
4 Whitetail doe
2 Whitetail Bucks
3 Cow Elk
2 Bull Moose
2 Black Bear
10 or 12 Hogs
All this was a LONG time ago when I was heavily into BP and hunted primarily with that or my Recurve. The past year or so has seen me getting back into BP on the modern side of the scale. I sold all my old BP guns years ago (and I sorely regret 2 or 3 of those sales) except for the newer TC Hawken Frankenstein rifle with the GM 1:28 twist barrel and I bought a TC Pro Hunter system and purchased a .50cal barrel for that. While I no longer hunt with a PRB, I have the utmost respect for those that do as I know for a fact how close you need to get and how choosy one has to be with shot placement. That's mostly why I get so riled up when people with absolutely NO experience with a PRB setup step up in here railing against everyone who uses them saying they have no place in the hunting community.
2 Whitetail Bucks
3 Cow Elk
2 Bull Moose
2 Black Bear
10 or 12 Hogs
All this was a LONG time ago when I was heavily into BP and hunted primarily with that or my Recurve. The past year or so has seen me getting back into BP on the modern side of the scale. I sold all my old BP guns years ago (and I sorely regret 2 or 3 of those sales) except for the newer TC Hawken Frankenstein rifle with the GM 1:28 twist barrel and I bought a TC Pro Hunter system and purchased a .50cal barrel for that. While I no longer hunt with a PRB, I have the utmost respect for those that do as I know for a fact how close you need to get and how choosy one has to be with shot placement. That's mostly why I get so riled up when people with absolutely NO experience with a PRB setup step up in here railing against everyone who uses them saying they have no place in the hunting community.
#262
I was counting dead deer one afternoon, perched up in a tree stand and staring at the woods. I have easily taken more then 10 deer with roundball. Three in one year, two with one shot, and countless does that were were forced to shoot before we could hunt a buck. The roundball never seemed to have a problem harvesting any of them.
Back to buffalo/Bison. When we were visiting South Dakota one year, we went out to fish at Mobridge, and ended up touring the black hills too. I had a Bison steak that was out of this world at a restaurant. Tender, not dried out, just a real wonderful meal. Then the girlfriend and I stopped at a little cafe for lunch and had a buffalo burger. That has to be the most nasty thing I ever tried to eat. Normally I can stomach anything but that was one time I just refused to eat it. To be honest it kind of smelt funny. Yet we purchased some buffalo steaks to cook on our grill (we were camping) and while tough to chew were very good. Buffalo seemed to me to be a "guessing game of what you would eat."
Back to buffalo/Bison. When we were visiting South Dakota one year, we went out to fish at Mobridge, and ended up touring the black hills too. I had a Bison steak that was out of this world at a restaurant. Tender, not dried out, just a real wonderful meal. Then the girlfriend and I stopped at a little cafe for lunch and had a buffalo burger. That has to be the most nasty thing I ever tried to eat. Normally I can stomach anything but that was one time I just refused to eat it. To be honest it kind of smelt funny. Yet we purchased some buffalo steaks to cook on our grill (we were camping) and while tough to chew were very good. Buffalo seemed to me to be a "guessing game of what you would eat."
#263
4 Whitetail doe
2 Whitetail Bucks
3 Cow Elk
2 Bull Moose
2 Black Bear
10 or 12 Hogs
All this was a LONG time ago when I was heavily into BP and hunted primarily with that or my Recurve. The past year or so has seen me getting back into BP on the modern side of the scale. I sold all my old BP guns years ago (and I sorely regret 2 or 3 of those sales) except for the newer TC Hawken Frankenstein rifle with the GM 1:28 twist barrel and I bought a TC Pro Hunter system and purchased a .50cal barrel for that. While I no longer hunt with a PRB, I have the utmost respect for those that do as I know for a fact how close you need to get and how choosy one has to be with shot placement. That's mostly why I get so riled up when people with absolutely NO experience with a PRB setup step up in here railing against everyone who uses them saying they have no place in the hunting community.
2 Whitetail Bucks
3 Cow Elk
2 Bull Moose
2 Black Bear
10 or 12 Hogs
All this was a LONG time ago when I was heavily into BP and hunted primarily with that or my Recurve. The past year or so has seen me getting back into BP on the modern side of the scale. I sold all my old BP guns years ago (and I sorely regret 2 or 3 of those sales) except for the newer TC Hawken Frankenstein rifle with the GM 1:28 twist barrel and I bought a TC Pro Hunter system and purchased a .50cal barrel for that. While I no longer hunt with a PRB, I have the utmost respect for those that do as I know for a fact how close you need to get and how choosy one has to be with shot placement. That's mostly why I get so riled up when people with absolutely NO experience with a PRB setup step up in here railing against everyone who uses them saying they have no place in the hunting community.
#264
Sorry Grouse, he may possibly have provided some useful insight on some things but something said that is bright is left fairly dimmed when it follows something stupid.
#265
Banned
Join Date: Oct 2015
Posts: 146
Stupid?
Should I shoot one of them? Some would say yes, and I can't disagree with that assessment. I may do that someday. But as long as I have a question about whether or not it is the right thing to do, the crossbow will stay on the hooks. So it is with the PRB. I don't think it is right to use them, so I never have and never will. My scorecard is not about absolute numbers (most of you here seem to share that viewpoint) but about making the most good, clean shots. Someday in the not to distant future I will have gone on my last hunt, and in the days after that I want nothing but good memories. This means I must hunt in a manner that I consider ethical.
As Pete pointed out a few thousand posts ago, once you have a piece of archery gear that gives you complete passthroughs, any more is superfluous . No Matrix 405 for this old boy! Even with one of those, hitting where you want to requires knowing the range to the target. "Flat shooting" is a ludicrous concept with any sort of archery. So unless I can hunt in a manner that allows me to make use of a rangefinder, I'll go back and sit on the porch. If I can't do it right, I won't do it at all.
OldBob
#266
"Flat shooting" is a ludicrous concept with any sort of archery
#270
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: VA.
Posts: 1,415
I was counting dead deer one afternoon, perched up in a tree stand and staring at the woods. I have easily taken more then 10 deer with roundball. Three in one year, two with one shot, and countless does that were were forced to shoot before we could hunt a buck. The roundball never seemed to have a problem harvesting any of them.
Back to buffalo/Bison. When we were visiting South Dakota one year, we went out to fish at Mobridge, and ended up touring the black hills too. I had a Bison steak that was out of this world at a restaurant. Tender, not dried out, just a real wonderful meal. Then the girlfriend and I stopped at a little cafe for lunch and had a buffalo burger. That has to be the most nasty thing I ever tried to eat. Normally I can stomach anything but that was one time I just refused to eat it. To be honest it kind of smelt funny. Yet we purchased some buffalo steaks to cook on our grill (we were camping) and while tough to chew were very good. Buffalo seemed to me to be a "guessing game of what you would eat."
Back to buffalo/Bison. When we were visiting South Dakota one year, we went out to fish at Mobridge, and ended up touring the black hills too. I had a Bison steak that was out of this world at a restaurant. Tender, not dried out, just a real wonderful meal. Then the girlfriend and I stopped at a little cafe for lunch and had a buffalo burger. That has to be the most nasty thing I ever tried to eat. Normally I can stomach anything but that was one time I just refused to eat it. To be honest it kind of smelt funny. Yet we purchased some buffalo steaks to cook on our grill (we were camping) and while tough to chew were very good. Buffalo seemed to me to be a "guessing game of what you would eat."