Mobow, bowfishers use the no glovs all the time.


I started with a 40# Browning nomad recurve when I was about 11. I was the bane of rabbits, squirrels and woodchuckswaaaaaaaaaaaay back then.
Then I got a Bear Whitetail II. 50lb draw weight and none of my friends could draw it back. Heh heh. (I'm quite sure those early bows ruined my shoulders)The Bearshot a lot farther than my recurve (as roof of the neighbor's housetwo blocks away could testify. []).

Anyhoo, I actually hated that compound and it killed my archery pursuits until I went to college and got a spiffy new JVA Astro Stinger. (laff, laff)
I loved that bow and it and I got along well. I killed just about every little critter legal to kill with it and a few deer too. Won a tournament with it even.

Now I'm shooting a bowtech equalizer for big critters, an old oneida T-III for bowfishing and a couple of recurves for small game andgoofing off. I like the variety from high to low tech.

Rumor has it that I'm getting a new bowfishing bow for my birthday. wooo wooo!

I grew up with a bow in my hand and never had enough sense to quit. As of right now, it's 52 years, 9 months since I shot my first arrow at age 3. Compounds weren't invented until 39 years ago. So guess what I started with.

Recurve, a Indian savage with aluminum arows and bear razor heads. Buck stop GRAPE deer lure Dam im old

Started flicking slivers somewhere around 1959-60, a longbow, had to hold it at an angle or the sight window was above my head with the bottom limb tip touching the ground. Got my first Recurve in 63, I think!

I ain't as good as I once was, But Im as good once, as I ever was!

I just had to reply to this one...

Man... I tinkered with recurves and compounds around the same time. (Age 12.) But my very first bow (which my father bought for me used from a friend of his at work) was a Bear Whitetail Hunter. (The original that was something like 40" ATA with tiny wheels and the crazy criss-crossing cable system which went around wheels attached to plates at either end of the riser.)I was 13 years of age. It was a 50 pounder which worked out okay... Draw length was a little long, but I managed.

Pultruded carbons were just beginning to hit the market then and, to be honest, none of the stores around me even carried them. So, naturally, I was shooting aluminum arrows. (Feather fletch... I think it was even 4 feathers instead of 3 on several of my arrows.)The bow had no sights and a flipper rest; I shot instinctively. I didn't use anything but bare fingers for the longest time, but thenmy fatherand I were visiting another friend of his and he wentinto his shed and startedpulling out all kinds ofold gear when heheard I was into archery. He gave memy first3-finger glove. Man, I thought I was happenin'.

I never killed a deer with that bow (and in retrospect I'm probably glad I never got a shot with it) but I was out there "killing" targets and "sneaking" through the woods in my mil-surp camo with trusty bow in hand. If I close my eyes I can almost see myself... Good memories!