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This is a great message to rep that feeling/passion for bowhunting.

http://huntervids.com/videos/the-challenge-sitka-films/

Nice video clip.........nothing like a stick and string.

Good video. It's why I hung up the pulley's and picked up a long bow.

Shrill and Low

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Song of the Bow

Song of the String

�Old English Ballad

Wonderful vid.

Traditional bowhunting has really taken off. Fred Bear would be proud.

Interesting to preach dropping the compound for the simplicity of the recurve. But modern stands, game cameras are used.

I'm not at all judging, just chuckling sometimes.

My nephew builds his own bows, and makes his own stone heads at this point and is getting deeper and deeper into real traditional stuff.

I"ve been the whole circle except for stone heads myself. I missed one deer with a stone head and have not tried since.

Just don't have time to dedicate to the bows lately. Hopefully that will change, but if it doesn't, there were almost 30 good years of bows already.

Well filmed video.

The only thing that matters is the distance between the bow and the target. All the other modern conveniences are window dressing. They don' t make the shot. The hunter draws the bow, the bow does the work and the arrow covers the distance and you win or lose.

Exactly, which I why I rifle hunt. Just as challenging and thrilling as bowhunting without having to put up with bow hunters.

Oh, but by then, the bow hunters have all the nice heads!

Best head I've ever had was from a bow hunter's wife.

He didn't preach a thing, quite the opposite in fact.

Some guys pay for it and some don't. If you have the extra money, why not.

As I recall he said this is why I went to a recurve or some such.

Don't mistake teh fact that I get what he is saying.

But he is advertising to be traditional when he is only really a small part of traditional.

Me too...

Hoyt, that's a gorgeous bow! Another reason trad is king. Wood bows carry like feathers in the woods.

think I'll try a spear, this year...

Thats been on my list for a long time now. Who knows if I"ll get to it though.

I hunt 'em with cinder blocks! A REAL challenge! Climb up above a trail....and get situated such that when the deer walks under your perch.....drop the cinder block! Good idea however is to use masking tape over the holes in the block so it doesn't 'whistle' on the way down!! Some cinder blocks have better BCs than others so one has to be rather particular about which blocks are chosen.

My Ex-Father in law took one with a spear about 40 years ago from a stand in a tree. The spear was essentially a shaft with an arrow inserted in a hole bored at the tip of the shaft. The arrow had a typical broadhead. The shaft was about 7 feet long. I recall he left about 24 or so inches of arrow shaft exposed. It was designed so the arrow would stay and the shaft would remain behind when the animal ran. Worked quite well...but just once to prove it could be done.

No atl-atl arrangement. Just thrown.

Life is too damn short to chase ammo!