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Yep, everything looks like a fox squirrel except the white belly. All I've ever seen around here have orange bellys. Cat squirrels have all the white. Occasionaly see a completely black fox squirrel and I once got one that was piebald.

That Squirrel in the pic came off Drapers Mountain in Pulaski Co. Virginia...

nice shooting!

Yep, it takes a particuliarly extravagant mindset to launch a $6 arrow at a two-bit squirrel on speculation. I once pot shot a grouse on the ground and three more flew up and lit in a tree. I picked off two of them before I heard the cha-ching of the cash register and let the fourth one walk. Eighteen dollars for three tough little chickens. I coulda drove to town and got rib eyes for that.

The meat won't fry if the arrow don't fly......if it's in season I kill it.........

It'd fry yer ass if I told you the details on that particular "extravagant shot".......I made it on pure faith in my ability...I'd wager 6 bux on a shot anytime. And, that arrow in the pic + new blades has gone on and killed a few deer since, I don't tear my stuff up too bad at all.


Any one callin' grouse "tough little chickens" don't know [bleep], especially one dumb enough to shoot UP into a tree. I've run across a couple of 'em in my time too and your whole scenario there don't add up....dude....

I've killed a ground hog or three during bow season with my $6 arrows too....popped a vessel yet???

wildswalker. sorry my conservative fiscal policies got your panties in a wad. You buy your arrows, do what you want with them.

Darn right...

Nothing fiscally wrong with killin' [bleep]...if you can.

As far as my panties in wad........you fired the first shot....or, maybe......you were afraid to cause you can't...

this event is looking good. nice work, va.
as for weird color-phase squirrels, my favorites look like stinkin' harlequin clowns. truly, truly strange.

That's what they make blunts for!!

Metal arrows and training wheels on the bow??? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
WW, I would have thought you'd be a recurve/longbow fan and make your own wood arrows!!!

Av..havn't progressed that far but contemplated it a bunch of times. Had an old friend, passed on a few years back, that was a master of the stick bow, He tried many times to convert me...I've dabbled but never got good enough with one.

A Bud and I have talked for the last couple of years about building our own bows...so far he's trying to convince me to build a stick bow and I'm trying to convince him to build a laminate...gotta have stuff like that to talk about over coffee ya know... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

WW;

If you'd care to try a stick bow again, I have an old Bear that I'd loan ya...

Nice reader's article in American Hunter this month, written by a man who bought an old Bear recurve at an auction for about $25. Made some arrows with dowels, broadheads, and fletching, and shot the best deer of his life, much to the annoyance of the guys who doubted he'd get a deer with that "antique". Well, he was over 65 so I guess it suited him.

Worth a read if you like hunting stories by guys who are neither professional writers or professional hunters.

I'll check that out. Thanks.

BTW - I hunt with that old Bear recurve that Roy can borrow, if he wants, as well as one other. Those are my only two bows, and they do all I need them to do.

Sean...I always knew you were a class act..good of you to make a gesture such as that. Not everyone would....I'm proud to know you.

Although I would bet my last dime that all would be cool I've never taken much of a liking to borrow things from folks...just the way I am and PLEASE don't take offense as I do value the sentiment...

Besides...I'm a lefty... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />

Ah...

In that case, I'll keep an eye out for a good used lefty recurve.

I've seen quite a few over the past couple of years; in great condition and for CHEAP.

The next very good one, cheap, that I see has your name on it.

The last one was a Bear Kodiak (Magnum, IIRC), about 62" in FANTASTIC shape, LH, and something like 55# at 28". IIRC, the price was under $50, easily.

No offense taken; understood and appreciated. The pride is reciprocal.

OK...THAT sounds like a plan...let me know...

Thanks bud.....

BTW I have a 30 inch draw but enjoy compounds set at 29...

Fair enough.

Ditto the 30" draw (being 6'1" with long arms does that...), but the beauty of a stickbow is that the draw length is already about perfect... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Jim_in_Oregon (IIRC) is a stickbow shooter with TONS of knowledge as is RWL99. A couple of posts over on the bowhunting forum to pick their brains will get you in excellent company very, very fast.

Funny how when we start out we put together what ever we can and it is usually simple and "cheap"...then we build up a bunch of complicated gadgetry and multitudes of gear...then we realize that simple might be better...

I've been on the K.I.S.S. road for a while now. A stick bow would complete the circle...or make me feel damn old... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

That's pretty much like camping. You spend 20 years collecting everything that might be useful, and the next 20 shedding everything you don't actually need. You end up back where you started, with a rifle, a knife, a blanket, and an extra pair of wool sox in your pocket.

WW.

Can't even begin to comment on the number of arrows I've lost when I first switched to the longbow. I've done my own arrows for quite sometime, along with threerivers arrows. Their wood arrows used to be quite a bargin. (@ $65/dz they seem to be less of a bargin now).

Gave some thought to a self bow, but the more I think about it, a homemade lam bow is probably more the ticket. Given thought to a recurve, but the longbow is more my style and I like shootin' it. Haven't shot much since my graduate student carrerr began, but hopefully that will end once I'm done, this fall may be too soon, but next fall I plan to return to the woods with my longbow.