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gri22ly 12-20-2008 09:10 PM

RE: I never knew...
 

ORIGINAL:

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?
Yes I can, I've made my own bow, string, Knapped my own point and killed deer with it.;)

Ilike to use 140 grain pine trees, beveled and fluted on one side. What type of point do you like to knap for deerhunting stealthy?

stealthycat II 12-20-2008 10:29 PM

RE: I never knew...
 
gri22ly I've not progressed that far as a bowhunter - you're doing it a truer way, and much more difficult, and I admire that and respect it.

99.9% of compound shooters cannot say the same thing though

gri22ly 12-20-2008 10:53 PM

RE: I never knew...
 

ORIGINAL: stealthycat II

gri22ly I've not progressed that far as a bowhunter - you're doing it a truer way, and much more difficult, and I admire that and respect it.

99.9% of compound shooters cannot say the same thing though
No respect deserved for me, Imainly hunt with a compound and Grim Reapers.

Just something I like to do every now and then.

TEmbry 12-20-2008 11:21 PM

RE: I never knew...
 

ORIGINAL: stealthycat II

gri22ly I've not progressed that far as a bowhunter - you're doing it a truer way, and much more difficult, and I admire that and respect it.

99.9% of compound shooters cannot say the same thing though
Apparently quite a few of the trad shooters cannot say the same thing either.:);)

Sliverflicker 12-21-2008 12:27 AM

RE: I never knew...
 

ORIGINAL: stealthycat II

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.
Old buddy, you need to lay the blame where it belongs. It was the trad shooters of the 50's, 60's, and 70's that threw their longbow and recurves in the corner when the compound came along, no one hijacked the bow season, it just plain and simple changed by the very ones you keep relating to.
By he mid to late 60's I never seen anyone shoot a longbow, they had been totally replaced by the recurve.
When I got out of the Core in the late 70's I went to get a new Bow because my 67 Kodiak was showing stress on the limbs and guess what, if I wanted a recurve it had to be special ordered, went to several shops and no one had one!

You will shoot about the same with a compound if you take the sights off of it, maybe worse if your a snap shooter, just faster.

Fred Bear tried,to shot the compound, said he could not get use to it, the breakover threw his shot process off. I think he was a Bowhunter!




bigcountry 12-21-2008 05:44 AM

RE: I never knew...
 

ORIGINAL: gri22ly


ORIGINAL:

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?
Yes I can, I've made my own bow, string, Knapped my own point and killed deer with it.;)

Ilike to use 140 grain pine trees, beveled and fluted on one side. What type of point do you like to knap for deerhunting stealthy?
You ought to post some picts of that in the trad forum. I am working on a sinew string right now myself for the hey of it. I want to compare speeds.

Vabowman 12-21-2008 07:14 AM

RE: I never knew...
 
so I guess Im a bowhunter in progress and after 18 yrs of shooting a compound??


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