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01-20-2003, 08:07 PM
#1
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Unalaska Alaska USA
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I am a new bow hunter who after developing an interest purchased, and have very much enjoyed using, a Mathews Icon bow. I live in Alaska's Aleutian Islands with no shops, instructors or other outlets available to me to help improve tecchnique and performance. I'm hoping that someone can direct me to a sound book and/or video for basic shooting instructions. Any recomendations would be most appreciated.
01-20-2003, 09:07 PM
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Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
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What contest did you enter and draw the short stick in? Unalaska? Man, talk about the remote Alaskan experience!!! <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>
I just about took a job in Akutan about 5 years ago working at the trident seafoods utilities plant. Passed it up for a better opportunity in Prudhoe, and that is where I have been working for the last 5-6 years. My home is in Fairbanks though.
I've noticed a book on e-bay titled, "so, you want to be an archer" They sell for a fair amount, and I've heard nothing but good feedback about that. I bought a book on bow tuning, but it was back in the two cam era when it was written, so it didn't help me an incredible amount with the mathews single cams.
Do you plan on hunting for caribou only, or are you headed out for brownies as well? What else roams around down there besides the small critters?
Welcome to the boards, we have a group of Alaskans that talk it up over on the west forum. Feel free to join on in and introduce yourself!
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I just about took a job in Akutan about 5 years ago working at the trident seafoods utilities plant. Passed it up for a better opportunity in Prudhoe, and that is where I have been working for the last 5-6 years. My home is in Fairbanks though.
I've noticed a book on e-bay titled, "so, you want to be an archer" They sell for a fair amount, and I've heard nothing but good feedback about that. I bought a book on bow tuning, but it was back in the two cam era when it was written, so it didn't help me an incredible amount with the mathews single cams.
Do you plan on hunting for caribou only, or are you headed out for brownies as well? What else roams around down there besides the small critters?
Welcome to the boards, we have a group of Alaskans that talk it up over on the west forum. Feel free to join on in and introduce yourself!
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01-20-2003, 10:14 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Unalaska Alaska USA
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Arctic Bowman,
Thanks for the reply. Actually Unalaska isn't the short stick at all. However, Akutan would have been for sure. I've been here for eighteen years after being laid off from my job as an electrician in Kaparuk when the oil industry hit the dumps in the mid-80's. I guess we have some things in common, in fact I was born in and spent many years in Fairbanks. Anyway, I'll check out the book that you mentioned. I'm pretty competent up to about 40 yards but have never had any formal instruction. Just a 60 minute lesson in the Back Country Archery Shop when I bought my bow last year. I'm planning on doing a moose, out of Fairbanks incidentally, this fall and Caribou as well. I've always put in for the Unimak bear hunts but have yet to be drawn. Nonetheless many of my friends have and I will continue until I actually get drawn or die! As you probably know these islands are polluted with red, silver, cross and blue fox. In addition Ptarmigan are fun to pass the time during winter. About the only other big game animal to hunt around here are some wild cattle that have been roaming the islands for many years. They're quite feral and leery of being approached. I've been chased more than once! Excellent eating though and the price is right. Thanks again for the reply. I will take a look at the western Board and I'm sure be following along. Thanks again.
Thanks for the reply. Actually Unalaska isn't the short stick at all. However, Akutan would have been for sure. I've been here for eighteen years after being laid off from my job as an electrician in Kaparuk when the oil industry hit the dumps in the mid-80's. I guess we have some things in common, in fact I was born in and spent many years in Fairbanks. Anyway, I'll check out the book that you mentioned. I'm pretty competent up to about 40 yards but have never had any formal instruction. Just a 60 minute lesson in the Back Country Archery Shop when I bought my bow last year. I'm planning on doing a moose, out of Fairbanks incidentally, this fall and Caribou as well. I've always put in for the Unimak bear hunts but have yet to be drawn. Nonetheless many of my friends have and I will continue until I actually get drawn or die! As you probably know these islands are polluted with red, silver, cross and blue fox. In addition Ptarmigan are fun to pass the time during winter. About the only other big game animal to hunt around here are some wild cattle that have been roaming the islands for many years. They're quite feral and leery of being approached. I've been chased more than once! Excellent eating though and the price is right. Thanks again for the reply. I will take a look at the western Board and I'm sure be following along. Thanks again.
01-20-2003, 10:58 PM
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Location: Washington State
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RE: Best Text?
PSE has a good basic video called "Understanding Shooting Form" that you can buy for about $15 from Cabelas. Not an exciting video, just two guys talking and shooting.
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01-20-2003, 11:40 PM
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Location: Unalaska Alaska USA
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Thanks Rack,
Some times a picture is worth..., well you know. Anyway I certainly appreciate the suggestion. Even though shooting is going pretty good for me right now, I hate to think that I am doing something I shouldn't and I would hate even more to continue to reinforce a bad habit through repetition. Thanks again.
Some times a picture is worth..., well you know. Anyway I certainly appreciate the suggestion. Even though shooting is going pretty good for me right now, I hate to think that I am doing something I shouldn't and I would hate even more to continue to reinforce a bad habit through repetition. Thanks again.
