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#44
Stealthycat, you do know if you didn't cut the tree down and make your own bow, make your string from sinew and knap (chip) your own point from flint, your not bowhunting, your just recurving.
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magicman54494 your view on crossbows is highly frowned on, you know that right? Compound shooters all the way up to the Pope and Young Club lobby hard to keep them out of archery season.
Your compound brothers - what are your feeling on that? elitism at its finest?
and that, is where I am at as well as far as if its legal, hunt with it and enjoy! Pandora's box is wide open with compounds, allow crossbows and drawlock's too - up until the point where it effects archery seasons by days or bag limits, then restrictions definitely needs to be looked at for sure.
"beneath you" isn't accurate - its just recognizing what is more challenging and what isn't
why is that a problem ?
I absolutely know that self bowyers are the truest form of bowhunting - but that said, I can pick their self bows up and cane shafts with knapped heads and shoot them fairly well, they are pretty much the same bow and shooting that I do right now.
Can you say the same?
Your compound brothers - what are your feeling on that? elitism at its finest?
You can hunt with whatever you choose (as long as its legal) Just dont tell me what to choose or that my choice is beneath you.
"beneath you" isn't accurate - its just recognizing what is more challenging and what isn't
why is that a problem ?
Stealthycat, you do know if you didn't cut the tree down and make your own bow, make your string from sinew and knap (chip) your own point from flint, your not bowhunting, your just recurving.
Can you say the same?
#46
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I absolutely know that self bowyers are the truest form of bowhunting - but that said, I can pick their self bows up and cane shafts with knapped heads and shoot them fairly well, they are pretty much the same bow and shooting that I do right now.
Can you say the same?
I absolutely know that self bowyers are the truest form of bowhunting - but that said, I can pick their self bows up and cane shafts with knapped heads and shoot them fairly well, they are pretty much the same bow and shooting that I do right now.
Can you say the same?
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I can pick their self bows up and cane shafts with knapped heads and shoot them fairly well, they are pretty much the same bow and shooting that I do right now.
Steve
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I think the custom guys resent a little bit Black Widows as not being a "custom" bow and especially now that the risers are machined rather than handcrafted (mine is one of the last handcrafted models)
When in reality you can get a Black Widow in all sorts of custom configurations. I think a lot of the older Traditional guys who don't shoot BW are just anti "big company", "advertising", "commercialization" types and BW just rubs them the wrong way. LOL
The BW shooters do seem to be just a LITTLE more defensive of their bows and vocal of how much they prefer them as well.
IN any event they sure do seem to touch a nerve.
MAtt....don't you attribute that (what you speak of) to most bows being more "custom"? I think you'd see the same thing if there were 4-5 major mfr's of trad bows and hardly ANY custom bows.
When in reality you can get a Black Widow in all sorts of custom configurations. I think a lot of the older Traditional guys who don't shoot BW are just anti "big company", "advertising", "commercialization" types and BW just rubs them the wrong way. LOL
The BW shooters do seem to be just a LITTLE more defensive of their bows and vocal of how much they prefer them as well.
IN any event they sure do seem to touch a nerve.

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Brad, you got to be kidding me. True, I can shoot my osage probably just as good as my zipper, but Brad, there is a huge difference in the 190fps I get with my zipper compared to my 155fps I get from my osage. You, yourself have faced the penetration delimma and have gone down the road of buying every super fast barebow, one can shoot.
Speed isn't what separates bows bigcountry - you know that
That would be 1 for 4 then?
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notice nobody wants to talk about the hatred compound shooters have for crossbows?
start a thread declaring you don't mind crossbows in archery season - the rabid anti-cross zealots will come out in full elitist force exclaiming how some one else's choice of archery weapon doesn't belong in the season that compounders hijacked.
start a thread declaring you don't mind crossbows in archery season - the rabid anti-cross zealots will come out in full elitist force exclaiming how some one else's choice of archery weapon doesn't belong in the season that compounders hijacked.


