RE: Who's going trad, this season?
 

Yep that'll sure bore Ya!!;)

Dan

RE: Who's going trad, this season?
 

Amen to that!

RE: Who's going trad, this season?
 

Sure did but I also killed 3 other deer, passed on a few as well.....so what's your point?

RE: Who's going trad, this season?
 

I'll Join you Jeff!!! LOL Well I already planned on doing it... Well atleast for spring turkey season. I'll be carrying either my Chek-mate Hunter II recurve or a 1968 Bear Kodiak Magnum. Both sweet shooters.

Here is a Pic of the Chek-Mate Hunter II


And here is the 1968 Kodiak Magnum

RE: Who's going trad, this season?
 

If I have to explain my in "gist" comment than nevermind ;)

RE: Who's going trad, this season?
 

I'll be dabblin with the long bow during early October...with some cedar.....when you go stick you gotta go cedar guys!!! Come ON!!!!!!!!![X(]

RE: Who's going trad, this season?
 

Hey PA Hardwoods, that Kodiak Mag is one sweet bow!!!!!!!!:)

RE: Who's going trad, this season?
 

Yeah I'm a nut. :D I really was committed regardless of what I saw preseason or from stand. I think that's the way you have to approach it from day one of practice, everything needs to build up to it and you con't really do it as an afterthought and probably hope to have any success.

Although the chance I got was 1 in a million I was a sprepared for it as I was ever gonna be and somehow Mars was aligned with Saturn and pulled it off.
The great thing is that it really takes the edge off for THIS season and I can go into it without any anxiety about "What if this?" and What if that?"

I will still hunt with a compound as usual in Illinois with Greg but I'm not sure the compound will see the woods again here in PA. You guys who have never done it.........I really can't describe the level of satisfaction in just SITTING there with a recurve or longbow in your hands. You feel like you accomplished something before you ever pull the string back! Take an animal with it and it almost seems like magic.

I'm already shooting the recurve again staying strong and keeping teh eye sharp. Stepped out on my patio yesterday and fired 4 arrows in a baseball sized group right in the sweet spot from 15 yards away stone cold. Pulled em' and went back in the house. I bet ya I looked like this ------> :)

RE: Who's going trad, this season?
 

You will never believe how that bow looked when I got my hands on it. My dad bought it probably 15yrs ago at a yard sale for like $10 or so and it was spray painted all black, and for years we used it to bowfish for stingrays and it was just thrown in the bottom of a boat. And I got my hands on it 3 yrs ago when I starded shooting traditional again and I cleaned off the black spray paint with some 90% alcohol and that is what I found underneath. It is absolutely beautiful. In fact if I knew who spray painted it I would thank them for saving it. LOL[8D]

RE: Who's going trad, this season?
 

WOW, what a find!!!!!!!!!! You got something special there!!!!!!!:)