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I just started shooting trad. Can't wait till next season.

56#, 64 inch, Black Widow take-down. Cedar shafts that I dip, crest, and fletch myself.


Casey

I am a traditional bow ho! Sorry but I have disease! My last bow purchase was DAS recurve. Best recure I have ever shot!!
Mark

Glacier John, yep..I am also a traditional archer hunter of over 45 years.
Like to build my own bows these past 25 years..recurves and longbows, selfbows or glass lam composites.Same with arrows and other appertenances..
A great pass time no matter what equipment folks use..Jim

yes I shoot both compound /stick . will be in Oklahoma end of month pig hunting and visiting family .Will be using a sky archery long bow this trip.

Black Widow Autumn Oak, Martin Stick Bow (favorite)
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There are a lot more traditional shooters here than I thought, thats great!

Glacier John,
Many of the topics are such that we who still enjoy hunting, shooting, making our own tackle for 'less complicated' archery and bow hunting cannot relate to..and have nothing positive to offer.

Doesn't mean we don't read, learn, and appreciate others whose archery tackle is a bit more 'modern' than our own..:)

Best regards, Jim

+1 jim in oregon

Glacier,

Hunted seriously with traditional equipment in the 80's and early 90's, mostly hunting big whitetails but then I was "sidelined" by my other maladies - rifles, side-by-sides, bird-hunting and elk hunting.

I took some 26 whitetails in that time including some other game and am thinking about trying it again this fall.

I've always been enamored of photo's like the one above with no camo, no wheels'n pulleys, no trinkets and gimmicks hung all over the bow-not that some don't work-just effective simplicity.

edited to say it's not that the bow machines and accessories of modernity don't work; it's just that recurves, stick bows, the clothes and the like hearken back to a simpler time for me. And, I like the warmth and beauty of some of these beautiful, simpler bows - just like in guns .

Gdv

I have been shooting a recurve for a few years now and am considering going to self-bow.
I agree with the simplicity-factor and I think there is something about the instictive shooting that generally accompanies traditional that adds an element of art to the whole experience and is thus a bit more rewarding.

Exactly Razorsharp. Once you get a feel for your instrument it truely is an art form.

Talking with an old boy one time I told him dad built acoustic guitars in the basement when I was a kid and he asked if I learned to play the six string. I responded "no but I'm pretty good on the old one string."

Great pics there RWL99...

I'd love to take up traditional archery again someday. I learned on a homemade (left-handed) recurve. Man did I put some hours into that thing but I think that played a big part in me becoming left-eye dominant too....

Oh well, it was worth it...

I've gotten into the traditional archery game this past summer after hanging up my wheel bow when I went to college in 1998.

I've got two long bows currently in house that will be here for a while, and I look forward to the monsoon season ending so I can get out and start shooting them!

Another sliver-slinger here. Never ever shot a wheel bow, trad from day one. Started with an old Shakespeare recurve that was my dads and am now on a Raptor Signature Flatbow, Yew limbs under glass. I love the simplicity, the quite "thunk" of the string at release and the graceful arc of the arrow. Hard to beat a day in the woods with a two sticks and a string!

I was over at a friends the other day, noticed he had a target in his yard. Turns out he's a bow hunter to, though a compound shooter. I had my long bow and arrows with me so we shot a bit.

The compound is so fast and accurate it's impressive, but it didn't seem like he enjoyed it as much, as he was frustrated when he had an arrow two inches out of the group. We were shooting at 20 yards, and though my group was larger, they were all in the kill zone of a deer, with the occasional flyer. I need to work on eliminating those flyers, but it is just a real pleasure shooting this slower, simpler bow, no sights, feather fletch off the shelf, watching the arc of the arrow and listening to that 'thunk' as the arrow hits the target. Plus for a day walking through the woods, it is so light to carry and my tool kit consist of an extra string and bow stringer.

I shoot flat bows and cedar shafts, but also have my dad`s freestyle recurve.
I also have a small collection of old recureves....
Cat

I have been bowhunting since 1997. I got my first recurve in 1999. My favorite bow is my Blackwidow PSA3.
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ill

I started bowhunting in 1985, switched to traditional in 1994 and haven't looked back.

I currently shoot a Robertson T/D recurve and a Havens longbow. Currently working on my third selfbow. Hopefully it will be ready by summer.

Glacier John, I'm right up the road from you, and yes I'm a traditional bowhunter. I shoot a 60" 60# Schaefer. Love that bow... Dave's good people too.

Working at the mill was what really pushed me into bowhunting. Try getting a week off in November when you've only been there three years I got other reasons, like the elk don't rut in November, rifle hunting was getting way too easy, and un-molested whitetails the first week of September. I used to have a cabin out by Star Meadows, really studying white-tails year-round got to be an obsession. Their patterns really change when the orange army hits the woods.