RE: When archery isn't archery any more?
 

I'd have to agree that you can spend about as much money on a traditional bow as a compound these days. I have a custom by Bear Paw Bows and a Palmer, both takedown recurves. Used to have a Bear take down too. I paid an average of about $600 per bow.

I've always made my own arrows, have for 26 years. My dad taught me how to do it, but I challenge you to get good quality cedar and by the time you've got everything assembled with shipping inc., you can easily buy a dozen carbons. Before I went back to compound the last time, I swore I'd never touch exploders (cedar arrows)again. That's the part that really costs money.

It's awsome to take an animal with totallytraditional equipment, but time and budget constraints keep me huntin' and freezer fillin' with my old compound and trusty rifle. I still have the stick bows, and I even stretch their limbs lovingly every so often, but simplicity has it's economics as well.

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Good post.

Mat

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Your traditional gear can be as expensive or INexpensive as you want it to be. Mankind had bows and arrows l-o-n-g before we invented money.

Cut down a tree or cut a limb, split it into staves, season it and make bows. String made with cordage from a whole lot of different plants, sinew or rawhide. Arrows from shoots or cane, fletched with feathers off the bird from last night's supper. Stone points now give way to steel salvaged from scrap metal. Armguard? Save the tops off your old, worn out boots. One boot top will make two armguards, another will make a handful of finger tabs.

Point is, just because we might choose to spend money - even a LOT of money - on traditional equipment, we don't absolutely have too. In fact, with a little time and effort, we don't have to spend a single penny to get good archery stuff if we don't want too.

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It is more and more like visiting a call dealership as they clear out the '07s for the '08s... You know, "Would you like that with or without the personal electronics package on your Ford Solocam XLT?"

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I hunt with a compound. Never shot a recurve or a longbow, but I like to consider myself oldskool in a lot of different aspects. When time and money permits, I will be buying a recurve, and I will practice and hopefully get proficient enough to hunt with it. Scoobie, when ur right, ur right.

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I used to care about this kind of stuff, but now I'm just glad another bowhunter gets an opportunity to go hunting... Regardless of weapon. Bowhunting is still hard, even with a compound..... I cant see myself ever useing one again, but you never know......

Staying profficient with a stickbow take a lot of time. I find myself with less and less of that each year as my kids grow up. And I'm not alone, the rest of the world is just as busy. That fact alone will keep trad from ever making a big come back.

It's a shame more will not give it an honest try. Nothing relieves the stresses of life like having a fun day shooting a stickbow.

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arthur p is rite.....how far do we need to go??? we get caught up in the new innovations hype and lose our traditions..keep it simple and its cheap...and effective

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Good quality POC is still around, you just have to look. The prices have gotten a bit rude, but seems that everything has--priced any barred feathers lately?

The best POC I've found since RRA sold out is from Tom at Raven. Heard lots of good things about Elite arrows, but haven't tried them.

Chad

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From the 'when enough ain't quite enough' file...[&:]

http://www.huntingnet.com/forum/tm.aspx?m=2479693

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