Which Recurve to hunt with
12-28-2002 | 10:53 AM
#2
Joined: Feb 2003
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From: Windsor Locks CT USA
RE: Which Recurve to hunt with
recurvehunter_leon,
I'm a longbow man, but resubmit your question on the Traditional forum and you'll get all the responses you can read!!! Not that you won't get any good advice here<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle> You'll find these forums are awesome and the responses you get overwelming<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>
I'm a longbow man, but resubmit your question on the Traditional forum and you'll get all the responses you can read!!! Not that you won't get any good advice here<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle> You'll find these forums are awesome and the responses you get overwelming<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>
12-28-2002 | 01:19 PM
#3
Joined: Feb 2003
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From: Palmyra PA USA
RE: Which Recurve to hunt with
It doesn't matter if it's a $25 Pearson garage sale recurve or an $1100 Leon Stewart with all the trimmings, the best hunting bow is the one you are confident in, can shoot well, meets the demands and constraints of your hunting situations, and is quiet.
I hunt with osage selfbows of my own making. I enjoy every minute of the 20 hours or so spent pouring my heart and soul into a piece of wood, that a few months or years ago was growing in a valley near my home. I enjoy being able to make bows that suit me perfectly, from the overall design, to the tiller, to length, to exact draw weight, to whatever I like to please my eye and sense of purpose. Functionally...well, they rock! <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle> Though they don't throw an arrow quiet as fast as most glass-laminated recurves, there is no quieter bow than a selfbow, no more durable and longlasting bow than one of osage, and they will still slam a heavy arrow through any beast I can track down. My latest bow, "Raptor", is 63" long between the nocks, 1-1/4" wide (max limb width), has the most wonderfully round belly that I could tiller into it, and draws 62# at my 25" draw. It has surprising cast for its limb design, throwing my 620 grain high-profile fletched Western larch arrows 175 yards. I may very well end up using it to hunt deer with next year. ...though I'll first have to see what bows are born from my basement between now and next October. <img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>
I hunt with osage selfbows of my own making. I enjoy every minute of the 20 hours or so spent pouring my heart and soul into a piece of wood, that a few months or years ago was growing in a valley near my home. I enjoy being able to make bows that suit me perfectly, from the overall design, to the tiller, to length, to exact draw weight, to whatever I like to please my eye and sense of purpose. Functionally...well, they rock! <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle> Though they don't throw an arrow quiet as fast as most glass-laminated recurves, there is no quieter bow than a selfbow, no more durable and longlasting bow than one of osage, and they will still slam a heavy arrow through any beast I can track down. My latest bow, "Raptor", is 63" long between the nocks, 1-1/4" wide (max limb width), has the most wonderfully round belly that I could tiller into it, and draws 62# at my 25" draw. It has surprising cast for its limb design, throwing my 620 grain high-profile fletched Western larch arrows 175 yards. I may very well end up using it to hunt deer with next year. ...though I'll first have to see what bows are born from my basement between now and next October. <img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>
