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

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.

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

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.

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.

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!

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

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