Bringing our women into the sport!
 

Hey guys,

How many of you bring your wife bowhunting? You know, actually out to hunt? My wife doesn't want to kill, she leaves that to me. She has however expressed a desire to learn to shoot a bow. I'd love to make 3-D shoots a family afair, wouldn't you? Most of the animal rights fanatics I've run across have been female. Through education and bringing as many women into the sport as possible is just one more way to defeat the anti's. Besides, I know of two females who have really contributed to the sport. Michele Crummer of Muzzy and Pro shooter Jennie Richardson come to mind real quick! There are others of coarse. We need to bring our children, wives, freinds and co-workers to the range and/or into the woods. I'm working to bring archery to the school children of our state (GA). I won't stop w/ just the schools. I will work w/ a newly formed local club and run the idea of a summer achery program across to them and get that rolling, too. There are many ways we can ensure the survival of our sport and share the joy of it. The most important to me is our children and those who could otherwise be turned against it if not exposed to it positively first. Just a thought!

Good shooting and Happy Huntin'


Gary D. Dowdy
Bow Hunting editor,
Boar Hunter Magazine

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i took mine out hunting but she wasn't GAME.......
she wants to learn but can't pull back the 45# required in ny.i wish the would let young ones and woman use crossbows to get them hooked.

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Not hardly with my better half...

I started breaking her 10 years ago - at that time she was a WWF and
Greenpeace member and proud of it.

10 years later and I can't begin to tell you the stories she's voting PURE right and last Sunday as the Vikes were getting whacked by the Pack she actually stayed in the garage as a friend & I cut & wrapped his doe.

It wasn't all that long ago that she wouldn't even listen to a hunting story now whe saw one get cut. I can only hope that in a few more years she'll be on the 3d course then out hunting with me.

My 5 year old daughter and 2 year old son love to 'shoot the bow' - so I know I"m raising a great wife for some guy in 15 or 20 more years! (I hope)

Great work Gary - if everyone pitched in 1/2 as much imagine what could be accomplished!



Aim small miss small

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I've gotten my wife out to help track and spot deer. She likes to eat them and doesn't mind helping clean them either. But keep in mind she likes to fish and cleans fish too. She and I have talked about her bowhunting with me next year. She's got a bad right shoulder though so she won't be able to pull a compound bow. Here in Iowa if you can't pull a compound, you can get a doctor's release to use a crossbow. So I think that's what we'll do for her.

KEEP IT LEGAL. KEEP IT SAFE. OR WE MAY NOT GET TO KEEP IT AT ALL.

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I'd love to get my wife into hunting , but she's deathly allergic to deer hair so thats out of the question. I tried getting her interested in turkey hunting but since turkey season is also prime tick season she wont step foot in the woods.

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Good timing on the post, Gary.

That's the best thing that came out of this season: my wife taking a more active interest in my passion. Luckily, I have never had to deal with what Krisken mentioned, pushing too hard. Whether it was me using bowhunting to escape the rigors of the work-a-day grind, or thinking she wouldn't be that interested in the first place, I have for the past five or six years quietly went hunting without ever mentioning the possibility of her tagging along.

But this season, she asked on her own to go with me. We don't have a bow for her or anything, but I took an afternoon to show her how to use my Summit Viper, and a couple mornings later we were six yards apart in a pair of trees waiting for the sun to break over the horizon.

Unfortunately, it was an extremely cold morning, and she was freezing because of our underpreparation in dressing her, but I'll take all the blame there. She still toughed it out for almost an hour before getting down. We didn't see anything, but she said she really enjoyed it. We've even stopped at a few bow shops since and let her look at some bows, although its hard to find a 22&quot; draw, 40-lb. left-handed model.

Never the less, the time together was really enjoyed. What better to be able to share your passion with your best friend?

Discipline -- not desire -- determines destiny.

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My wife has two bows, but she cant make weight with either!

She does hunt however these past two falls have been busy with school for her, this coming fall hopefully we'll see a change there.

One word of advice for those of you starting your women or women friends out, heck or hubbies or boy friends out, dont push them to do it. Its something they truely have to want to do. Get them on the range once or twice, let them know you are going be it 3d's or the range, or hunting, let them make the decision themselves!

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btw, here is the hunt I took her on...her first big game animal to date

http://www.geocities.com/tradbow007/aug_floattrip.html

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My wife hunts all the time..... she hunts recipes, sales, ... her latest... a sports bra. So, she does her thing and I do mine and I guarantee they'll never meet. When I lived in Georgia I told her of this duck hunt I had one morning. This lady had given me exclusive rights to hunt her farm. Until then she had allowed NO hunting. I told my wife of
&quot;the rush when 700 or 800 mallards try to land on this patch of flooded corn at one time. The whir of the wings and the early morning frost. It was wonderful&quot;.

Well, she was hooked. She had to go. So a couple days later I dragged her out of bed around 4. She insisted we were both fools. I bundled her up like a knight in a armor with layers of clothes. IT was Frigid that day. I abandoned my trench I had made in the ground and had to build her a MORE SUITABLE blind in a fencerow. Good thing probably because I would have had to blast to dig a second lay down trench. I had to break 1/2-3/4 inch of new ice on this pond to drop a couple decoys among the flooded corn. I got that all done and we settled in HER blind before sunrise. For 30 minutes(felt like hours) I heard, I can't see, I'm cold, how long do we have to sit here, when are they coming, I'm cold, you're crazy, is it time yet, I'm cold etc etc etc etc etc etc. Low and behold the sun started to rise. I pointed out about 30 mallards circling and coming in to our set up. Her reply... I'm COLD. I said I was going to let them land and wait on THE BIG FLOCK. &quot;I'm COLD and you're NUTS&quot;. Well, the big flock must have found easier pickings. About 15 minutes later another 15 or 20 birds cupped their wings and started their decent to my frozen decoys. &quot;I'm COLD&quot;. Heck woman, you got on my best wools, boots and 2 layers of long johns. &quot;I'm cold&quot;. OK, I'll whack a couple ducks from this bunch and we'll go. &quot;OH NO.... DO YOU HAVE TO&quot;. Have to what I ask. &quot;SHOOT THEM... they're so pretty&quot;. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh.... help me with the decoys....&quot;I'm going to the truck&quot;. When you get there... start it and run over me would you?

NOPE, I'm not interested in a womans league, my wife hunting or family day. Give me peace and quiet and a flooded corn field.


Edited by - davidmil on 12/12/2002 06:34:11

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[Nice heart shot!b]

It's great to share other bowhunter's experiences with them, especially when it involves family. My five year old daughter loves to go out and shoot her lil' bow w/ daddy. I plan on carrying her to a 3-D event this year so she can watch. She knows and understands hunting at looks at it positively. I'm building a sportswoman and I'm loving it!

Happy Huntin'


Gary D. Dowdy
Bow Hunting editor,
Boar Hunter Magazine

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I am jealous of any man with a hunting wife, mine will eat and cook venison, but that is it! She has on occasion expressed an interest in camera hunting, but said she could never kill one, she has no problem with me doing it though. No my 10 year old twin girls, well they have been on several hunts already with me, they have done it all except see me make a kill. In another year or two I will put them through hunters safety and they will start themselves. I do find it funny though, I have 6 kids and only the last two, the twins have any interest in it. Now here is a funny one, my oldest girl is a vegitarian, but supports my hunting, she is intelligent enough to know it is needed.

The Tazman aka Martin Price
Founder and President of
Virginia Disabled Outdoorsmen Club

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No women I have ever met wanted anything to do with hunting.
Most can't stand the dead deer on my walls. &quot;I don't see how you can look at those dead things with thier blank stare&quot;. I don't know how many times I've heard that.

Maybe one of these day's I'll have those deer heads mounted.<img src=icon_smile_tongue.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>

&quot;Hey ya'll, watch this&quot;

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My wife isn't into it, but has no problem with it, unless it gets out of hand and I'm gone too much like this last year. I plan to introduce bowhunting to my 2 neices, and my daughter, and hopefully they will join me in the woods and enjoy what the great outdoors has to offer.

A buddy of ours took his daughter out grizzly bear hunting with a bow this fall. She took a grizzly, and just recently the 60 day drying period elapsed, they had the skull measured and it made book! She will be the first woman recorded that shot a Pope and Young Grizzly Bear with a bow, if not the first grizzly bear with a bow! Her bear was actually bigger than her dads, so she gets to rub that in as well. Pretty dang cool I thought.

The Vice President of the Alaskan Bowhunters Association is also a female. She and her mom bowhunt together all the time, and she's taken numerous black bears with her bow. Hopefully I'll get the chance to hunt with them in June.
ArcticBowMan's Hunting Photo's

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My wife doesn't bow hunt. She hunted 4 years with a rifle and decided she did not like one part....shooting the animal. Otherwise she goes along on trackings, scoutings and helps set up stands. She cuts and packages venison with me. She is a hunting advocate...she just does not care to pull the trigger herself. I NEVER get any grief on how much I hunt...ever! She's a keeper!

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sssshhheeewwwww!!!! I just got my pop up groud blind out of the bedroom. My wife would've loved to have seen that! It took me about 15 min. of reading, bending and twisting but it's back in it's pack, no harm done!
I think the ground bling will come in handy when I carry my daughter on her first hunt. That way we won't have to climb and we can both sit together. Conceal a little movement, too.

Happy Huntin'

Gary D. Dowdy
Bow Hunting editor,
Boar Hunter Magazine

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Well, I tried. I bought my son a new PSE Outlaw, my wife a PSE Spyder, my daughter a browning, and my youngest at six a Walmart special. I ended up with a 12 year old proline. She likes to shoot but has no interest in hunting either. My kids can't pull enough weight yet. So for a while I'll have the woods to myself..

THWACK!

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My wife just agreed to do the spring turkey hunt with bow...hmmmm

THWACK!