Come on man you know I can't do that! I'll just keep biting my tongue..until it hurts and then ...look-out!

To me it would be. I think if I actually made the bow the arrows and the head the feeling of accomplishment on an animal would be intense.

I've made my own ice fishing poles and lures etc. and the fish I caught on them were special, so I can understand what I think the OP is saying.

The statement by itself, I agree with.

But, if you think about what it tookto get to that point using what was available at the time........

Bow shooting is a pretty integral part of bowhunting though. It's a package deal. If you're not very good at bow shooting, you have to be a lot better at bow hunting. If your effective range isn't any better than 10 yards, you have to hunt just that much harder in order to get yourself within 10 yards. If you can take all your arrows andslam 'em into a bottle cap at 40 yards, then you only have to hunt hard enough to get within 40 yards.

Your shooting skill can make up for a deficiency in hunting skill just like your hunting skill can make up for a deficiency in shooting skill. It's a lot easier, with a compound with sights, fast bows and mechanical releases to work up the shooting skill than it is to develop the hunting skill. There are a scant handful of traditional or primitive bowhunters that have the shooting ability that would even let themdream of taking a shot beyond 30 yards, and most won't even attempt a shot beyond 20.

All the time you see where people who claimone mustshoot 40-50, even 60 or 70 yards in order to be successful on western game. And yet you can pick up a traditional bowhuntingmagazine and see guys who have taken the exact samespecies on the exact same ground with a homemade selfbow and wood arrows from 15 yards and less.

Both are bowhunting, but the methods and techniques are very, very different.

Besides shouldn't this be moved to the traditional board ??

My head is starting to hurt!

Why, I thought this was the Bowhunting Board.I don't read that to mean the Compound Bowhunting Board, the Primitive Bowhunting Board, or the Traditional Bowhunting Board. [8D]

I do not agree.

Even if the shot is at 10 yards and you are equally accurate with both weapons, the traditional equipment poses bigger obstacles as compared to a compound.

When bow shooting, I can control when I draw back and when I release. When bowhunting, these things are usually dictated by the circumstances of the hunt rather than my comfort zone, that is if I want to increase mysucess rate.

So a 10 yard shot with an 80% let off compound that I drew back and held for 60 seconds or longer while he was behind a bush before stepping out into a shooting lane is much different than the guy with traditional equipment who does not have the same luxury, is it not?

Thats why I am a snap shooter.