Trad Gang
Main Boards => PowWow => Topic started by: Chub on July 04, 2011, 08:59:00 PM
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just curious how or why folks got into trad bows and equipt.i myself had a bad hit on a nice 8pt and never recovered .sold that wheelie! a few years ago a pal at work got me interested again. now im 5 recurves hanging on the wall and various equipt and i love this way of stick and string
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Stopped into a shop one day to try out a new set of wheels.Shot it like crap.On my way out seen an old fella shooting the strangest looking bow that I had ever seen.Asked him to demonstrate then asked to fling a couple. Fell in love after two arrows.Started out with an old recurve. Nine months later was also shooting one of those strange looking Saluki's and hooked for life. :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
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I grew up admiring bows that my dad and uncle shot when they were teens. Back then they did a lot of field archery, it still intrigues me to this day!
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It's all there was then and it wasn't called trad.It was archery.
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It's self inflicted.
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JimB, x2
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JimB X 3
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I met and talked with Fred Bear at an archery function when I was 14 years old. That was way back in 1964. I picked his brain, off and on, for 3 hours. Fred Bear was a very gracious man and answered each and every question I asked of him.
Two years later, when I was 16, I took my first deer, a doe, with a Wing target bow pulling 36# at my draw length. The aluminum arrow was tipped with a Bear Razorhead and it was a complete pass through on a broadside lung shot at 15 yards.
BTW, my first real hunting production made recurve bow was a one piece, 60", 40# @ 28" Bear Super Kodiak.
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started out with a wheelie. got sick of hitting all six arrows into a golfball size target from 30 yards. it was too easy. i was bored. saw an ad in a magazine for binghams to make your own bow. i did. it's a 3 piece takedown recurve that i still have. i still dabble with making them. board bows mostly. it's not easy(making or shooting them)and i'm not bored anymore. lots of fun. don
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I switched back in 95 seems there was always a problem with my compounds. My personal beleive is my recurve is the best choice for realistic bowhunting. I am sure it is the same for longbows I just dont shot them. The simpler the better and nothing beats shooting well instictively. It always amazes me how acurate you can be.
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My dad when I was 7 yr old
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i started out with an old hand me down recurve in the 70s as a kid i hunted with curves up till 91 when i got bit by the speed bow bug.
after 5 years i got real bored with it and went back to the recurve
im havin more fun than ever
kevin
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Got a bad case of T.P. shooting compounds with sights. Sold the compound and bought Darton ranger for 40 bucks. Killed a nice doe the third day of my first trad season. I was hooked for life.
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My Uncle gave me a Ben Pearson Lemon wood longbow in 1959. Shot at a lot of squirrrels that year in Checotah OK. Got a Red Rider B B gun the same summer. Shot my first deer with a Shakespere Hunter fiberglass bow in 1969.
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I found my dad's Ben Pearson recurve in the garage. Started shooting that and then a pastor later in life, teenage years, helped me make a take down recurve.
-Jeremy :coffee:
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I started out shooting a Home made Hickory long bow that my Grandfather made back in 78', in 82' he bought me a 72 Bear Super Grizzly that I shot as often as I could till I was ready to hunt, took my first Deer in 84' with that bow.
Had my time with Compounds till about 3 years ago when I got tired of the gadgets & wanted to get back to where I belonged, & here I am still learnin but having the best time of my life.
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Walked into the local bow shop to have my wheelie tuned (again) and say this old straight thing sitting in the corner. The shop owner saw me looking at it and said if you give me $10 you can have it. Well this bow shot like crap and my arrows were never tuned right but I shot it every day for about 2 months and then got a new bear and never looked back. That old bow still sits in my shop, I will never sell it or get rid of it.
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I was broke(shocker I know). So I sold all of my wheelie stuff during bang bang season. I left for Iraq the next Jan. When I got back my dad gave me a 60's something Bear Grizzly and I haven't looked back. Now I am happy that light bill needed payed!
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After 40,000 plus years of human history using bows and arrows, perhaps it is more accurate to say that "Trad got into us". That is, archery is part of our subconcious mind, and once the basic movements are developed, is instinctive and natural, much like running. Both archery and running allowed humans to thrive and climb to the top of the food chain as hunters.
Plus, it is wicked cool watching the arrows fly...LOL!
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upon finishing my hunter education class (outdoor portion) one particular stage required me to shoot a "wheeled unit" along with a longbow and recurve. As the gentleman suggested that I shoot the tradtional bows I responded with, "no thank you". Little did I know that moments later both the longbow and recurve felt as if they were made for my grip, draw weight and length; it was better than my first baseball glove (and that first mit was exact)! Within 3 hours of finishing the class I had a dozen cedar arrows and my first traditional bow- a 60" pronghorn. :) ))
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I admired my mothers ben pearson hunter that she inherited from her father. IT being 45# I couldn't even string it but later found my fathers old fiberglass bow from when he was younger and started shooting that. Now i have my grandfathers bow and that is what i shoot and hope to take my first deer with.
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Had made numerous stick bows as a child and then my uncle gave me a Little Bear recurve in 1969 at age eleven.
Possibly one of the greatest material gifts I have ever received.
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Got plain old tired of puttin the thing on the thing and pullin the thing.
Patrick
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i started shooting a bow in p.e. class,the bug hit me even if it was a cheap fiberglass bow.within a few weeks was my bday and told everyone i wanted money for a compound,well i got it for christmas instead.I was 12,at 15 my dad sent me some money for christmas and i bought a used shakespeare recurve.ive always had a longbow or recurve laying around,then i seen october whitetails and thats all it took....thanks barry,my wife hates you...lol
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my compound bow has too many gadgets....all things that can break. there's just something about the simplicity and smooth lines of a trad bow.
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In the fifties my dad was stationed in St Louis and we lived on Natural Bridge and Lindbergh. The other corner had a company called Hoyt. Earl sold me a defective kid long bow for seventy five cents. They taught me to be safe. Sold me arrows for fifteen cents. I was hooked.....
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I grew up shooting a compound. One day while hunting moose in the interior of Alaska I had a slam dunk shot on a 50"+ bull.....only to be let down at the moment of truth by one of the gadgets on my bow malfunctioning. From that point on I began to realize that "simpler is better" and not long after I began shooting a recurve.
....Now, where'd that moose go....? :dunno:
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I shot compounds for years. Five years ago, a friend made me a hickory self-bow. That was it! Since then, I've purchased several custom longbows and recurves. I always did my own work on my compounds, but love the simplicity of setting up and tuning my traditional equipment. Shooting traditional is so enjoyable and relaxing, plus I've met some really great people.
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Started shooting compounds.
Did that for 17yrs.
The last deer I shot with a compound I didn't feel the "rush". .. I thought "WHOA" I need to do something Different!
I decided I wanted to shoot the shortest recurve I could find. I wanted to rig it up with compound type sights, shoot a release. Basically wanted to do-dad up a recurve.
I bought my first trad bow ( herters perfection 46..used a 40" string )
Quickly found out there wasn't room to mount sights, the release aid made tons of noise..etc
Started using a tab with a bare bow and got hooked.
Found out too that it was too short for me to shoot well.
Anyway, I'm a few bows into the experience.
I've learned I like longbows..well a 62" savannah if you call that a longbow. Just like the non limb contacting string.
I'm really hooked.
Nice to know and truly understand what is happening from beginning of shot to the end. I never had that with a compound.
Gotta love it!
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Never really got away from it
It is what I started with tried compouds but just never took a liking to them
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That's all there was in the 50's.
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honestly I got into it because people told me it was to hard.
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Had an old ameican archery baracuda when I was 8 then my dad bought me an old 64 kodiak outta the bargain finder when I was 12 and before we knew it we had about 10 old bears, indians, and ben pearsons on the rack. I shot a coumpound maybe twice in my life. I never had any interest in them. I've been shootin recurves and lbs for 21 years now! Real archery not trad archery!
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I started shooting my Dad's old Saunders recurve ten years ago with the intent of taking it on the hunt we never went on. He had died ten years before that. Hunted with that bow but never took a game animal with it. I've been shooting trad ever since.
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Starting shooting in 1952 with my Sundy School teacher and been shooting and bowhunting ever since.
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My grandpa passed on 2007. We all drove down from CT ro AL for the funeral and to help clean a bit. Hole cleaning we were allowed to take stuff as inheritance. I found a Browning Wasp that pulled 50@28. Been hooked on archery ever since!
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Back in the early 70's my twin brother and I got fiberglass Ben Person Recurves (35lbs) for Xmas. The following fall, while doing farm chores, a doe was about 40 yards around the corner of the barn. Ran back to the house and returned with my bow, she was now about 15 yards from the corner of the barn now. She went down in about 50 yards. We both went to wheel bows in high school for about 20 years. For the last 16 years been shooting older recurves and will never go back to training wheels agains.
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Didn't know I was in it.I just bought a K-mag in 1974 and started hunting with it and killed my first deer in 1976.Still don't know if I am in it or not.I am a bowhunter though ,for sure and have always used a stick and string.Kip
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heheh - easy, there were no other kindsa archery back in '55. :D
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I shot wheels for about 17 years and then i got my dad's Brown Fox Hunter by Bear. Got a new string for it and started shooting it. The bow got a nasty crack in the belly so I continued to shot the wheels for hunting though. Then about 4 years ago went to the Trad show in Kalamazoo and my son and I bought two used bows and loved not having all the stuff (gadgets) to come loose or break. Love the feel of wood in my hand. Have not shot the compound since.
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Started hunting in the early 70's with a Kodiak Mag 65# then changed over too a Fred Anderson Skookum LB 75# @ 28". Hunted with that bow ( loved the way she performed ), then someone else thought they needed more than i did. Tried Compounds a little, then dumped my motorcycle in 1988. Doctor said that I would never shoot a bow again, due to shoulder injury. Hunted with rifle until I decided to try again. Shot a lower poundage compound for a while 6 years, Then in 2008 at the suggestion of a couple of friends (Doug Campbell and Tom Stock). I found out he was wrong, I just shoot bows of around 54# or less and I do well. Thanks Guys
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Started with an old Bear recurve in the 70's. Lost my way for years with wheelie bows. Found the path again and never looked back!
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I started bowhunting after I had Heart Surgery, About 3 after I started I needed more out of it so I turned to Trad Archery and sold My wheels.
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Sorry for the double post
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I was trad before there was a trad. Coming up on my 49th year of bowhunting.
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Got bored with the compound, just wasn't fun anymore. A friend had a recurve that he let me shoot. I decided to make a change.
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I was almost literally born with a bow. My dad made me a selfbow while my mom was pregnant, that was my first bow. When i was 4or 5 my Grandmother looked at me,at christmas dinner, and jokingly said "He cant actually shoot that can he?" well dad said it made me mad, so i parted her hair with a dowell arrow. lol. Archery has been a way of life for me, its kept me oout of drugs and alchohol out of the "wrong crowd" I thank God everyday for letting me be so obsessed with archery.
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Born into it. My dad has been teaching me to shoot my bow ever since i can remember.
I tried shooting a friends compound last summer and fired one arrow into a brick, and the other made a clean pass through my shed. I was 15 yards from my target.
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My two cousins got me into archery when I was 10 years old. That was in 1953 and it was archery. The word "Traditional" had not been added as a prefix to the sport at that time.
Danny
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I started when I was about 10. Dad bought me a compound but I didn't really take to it. I got a recurve (just like dad's) for Christmas later that year and the rest was history.
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Shot a compound for years and it got.....well boaring, sight it in and go in side. One year I did not touch the thing all summer, got it out, 30yards no problem(BOARING). Frind of mine(Peachy) let me shoot one of his bows, I sold my compound stuff and never looked back.
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Started as a 13yr old and never changed. Was all there was back then. Guess you could blame Howard Hill and Errol Flynn.
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I was hunting with a friend up near the Strawberry Wilderness area here in Oregon. At camp after the days hunt my friend pulls a TD Brackenbury out of it's case, puts it together, and hands it to me. I found out later that it was a bow that Jim had given my friend "because he had out shot Jim on his own home course". I went out to where we had a target set up and proceeded to shoot that bow until my arm about fell off. Went home and sold my compound and bought my first of many used bows. I had found where I was happiest.
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I shot a recurve when I was kid in the 60s and 70ps and then started up again in 1987 with a Browning compound. At first I shot it bare but as I got promoted into shiny shoes I didn't have the time for bare so I got sites and then a rest that was constructed of about 227 parts and cables and wheels and oil and hex wrenches thermo shrink tubing and rubber tubing and arrows shorter than my draw length and nuclear tipped sight pins and in 1996-ish I bought a clean looking Bob Lee recurve that was too heavy for me. Then this last year I said "This is the year I'm going traditional." so I've sold all my compounds and all my compound gear and I had my limbs reduced and they were still too heavy (but not so much now) and Rob Lee built a new set for me and they are just great. I love shooting it and shoot it every morning and every evening until my arms are rubber (and it takes a LOT of arrows to do that now.)
I just love how a good 50 yard shot as gone from artless mechanics to a joyous, frivolous, poetic miracle which I'd never inflict on an animal. 25 yards? Look out, Mr. Ungulate, I'm coming.
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My dad bought me a Ben Pearson (solid fiberglass) in 1961 which I still have. I was 9 years old and have been hooked ever since.
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Born with it. No cure.
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When I was 13, I went to work for my Uncle and (older) cousins. One day my cousin said to me "They are having a sale on Ben Pearson comound sets... $125 for everything you need."
I bought it and had a great time with that thing. Shot it until I had to dismantle it so it wouldn't explode.
But my real dream had always been to walk into the woods with nothing but a knife and live off the land. You can't carv a compound out of a tree branch, so, leaving the gadgets behind was just the next step in my retirement plan.
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My buddy Lowebow made the jump and I was looking to keep up with him.
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To get deep about it, I guess that I've always been a bit of a loner, not afraid of but not comfortable with huge crowds. I like the open spaces, quiet times in the woods by myself to get my head cleared out. When I discovered bowhunting, that was all that I needed to feed my soul. The seeing of nature close up, the learning about the cycle of life and the desire to take my place it it. It was probably initially the pictures and words I saw about bows, from "adventure books" written about American Indians, Robin Hood, the cave etchings in France which depict archers hunting. Hmm, question...are we all R-CHers or are we R-Kers like the "ark" of the arrow? Personally, I like to "ark" them right into the target. Oops, TANGENT!
My dad taught me to shoot a 22 as a kid and fish when he had time, was always a busy man. We moved to Mason City, IA from Madison,WI when I was 10. Went from Urban to less urban and a lot closer to rural. Dad got into hunting via the local outdoor writer/naturalist at the paper and I soon joined in. If only I had known about deer when I lived there. Back to WI for Dad (Rhinelander) and for him more opps. to fish and hunt. I finally decided to do something about my interest in the bow, went to wheel-store ("faster than a recurve, sights will make it easy") and started teaching myself to shoot. Several years later, got everything nailed down, screwed down tight, adjusted perfectly and got bored with the vertical cross-bow. Pin on target, squeeze release trigger, arrow in target, additional arrows smacking the first. Practice became almost too easy. Sure there was an "ark" but it was pretty flat, pretty fast. And compound bowhunting became "Look at this "X-brand" bow and great "X" carbon arrows that I shoot with this "X" broadhead, off this "X" fall-away rest.......and I just killed this massive whitetail but he only scores less than 200 PY. Oh did I tell you that I shot him on my food plot that I planted with my "X" ATV and "X" discing seeding unit and I planted "X" Deer Magnet food plot seed and....." CHEESE mon!! C,mawn! So the over commercialism stimulated every Tom, Dick and Mary to pick up a bow, shoot a few arrows a year and go out and shoot AT deer and spend a lot of money getting the next big thing that would guarantee that they will shoot a deer just like their TV he and she-roes do!! So the crowd got bigger and a little "fuller" of that which yon cows in yonder pasture lay forth upon thine ground as they feed. Frankly, I became disinterested in competing against others who's main mantra was "faster, faster FASTER need my bow to be 3 fps faster" Then when it's 3 fps faster they're still not satisfied. My GAWSH, I had to pull myself away from that to keep what remaining sanity that I appear to have left!!!
Now I have an **** Darton Ranger, a gun-traded for group including a B.Pearson Palomino, a '53-ish Bear Cub Longbow, a recently purchased '66 K-Mag and an upcoming order for a Whip that I'll probably just start foaming at the mouth when I see it's beauty and know that she is mine! AND I have constant reminders every day of how great other humans can be when I get on the forums at trad sites and talk to fellow "R-kers" on the phone or in person. It's the down-to-earth, helpful almost to their own expense-attitude that has renewed my idea that most folks are generally good people. I guess the wheel bow crowd and the TV commercialism of that portion of bowhunting are fine but just not the folks that I feel more comfortable with and the folks that SHOW me how to be a better, more caring about others type of human being that my father was. I am SO fargin DEEP!! I still have my wheels but someday soon I'm gonna have to make some room and the non-wheelies will be the LAST to go IF you can pry them forth from my tight vise-griped phlanges. na. don't even try.
Best of luck to all and thanks for readin' that book I just wrote. I mean, get me rollin' and I'm ROLLIN'! 'bout trad.
Keep the "ark" alive. Wasn't Indiana Jones chasing the "ark"......?
Just another hooman bean,
TomBow
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i wanted to change up my deer seson, so decided to start archery. while saving for a compound, I met John Dill at our local sporting goods store, and caught the trad archery bug. been at it for over two years with my main men and dont see quitting anytime soon!
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Back a few years ago, 4 or 5. I bought a brand new DXT, being that I live in a condo, my range was only five yards. You cant shoot wheels in that little space. I had read some where that practicing with a real bow it would make you better. So I went to the only place around here that I had seen one and bought a Martin Savannah. Well after many holes in my walls and furniture. I started reading everything I could to help me shoot. I found this sight and needless to say I have never touched the DXT again. Well, I did pick it up two weeks ago and took it to a shop, it is now for sale! I only wish I would have started this much earlier in life. Im on a gun lease in SC and all of my stands are set up for bow hunting, I cant get enough of this.
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I am a newborn by comparison to most folks on here. In many ways. I only started hunting period about 5 years ago, and it was a pheasant hunt with an 870. I'm 32 now, and about a year after my first real hunting experience, I bought myself a compound. My first experience with this "Bear" person's products, and it became normal to ruin arrows.
Then I shot my first "traditional" bow. I can't remember what it was, but I bet a member who posted on the first page of this thread could tell me, cause it was Grapes who showed me I couldn't shoot worth crap that day.
Fast forward a few months, and I am invited to a trad. only rabbit hunt. I am borrowed a 45# grizzly, some stumpin arrows, and thrown to the wolves. I missed a bunny by a tail, and a few more by far more, but had thee time of my life.
That following week, I became a member here (also upon Grapes' recommendation) and proceeded to by my first recurve.
This man's first recurve apparently:
Originally posted by Kip:
Didn't know I was in it.I just bought a K-mag in 1974 and started hunting with it and killed my first deer in 1976.Still don't know if I am in it or not.I am a bowhunter though ,for sure and have always used a stick and string.Kip
And it's still my go-to killer Kip! I love that bow and hope it stays in my family until long after I pass.
While waiting for my prize to show, I learned how to make my own board bows as well (thank you 4est!), and I have not stopped fantasizing about shooting or making bows since.
I'm not quite 2 years old in the traditional world, but life for me will NEVER be the same. I now have My K(ip)-Mag, a Grizzly from a great mentor who can no longer enjoy the wild due to illnesses, but I get to enjoy his stories of elk-hunting in Michigan, a gorgeous bamboo backed laminated bow from tradbower, a 2 piece osage selfbow that is a dream come true, and i'm currently applying finish on my 11th bow since learning I can (try to) make my own.
I have to agree with those that have said they didn't get into trad. It definitely got into me.
I now know archery is why I started hunting. Period.
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Way back in the early 60s, high tech meant "glass powered"!!!!
And....that was way before anyone thought to add the word "traditional" or "trad" to what was just "archery"!
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Ditto hayslope, The "new fangled" bows back then were the all glass bows. I still have one of my first - a Shakespere all glass bow with plastic grip. After the first week of a new half dozen woodies I hardly ever had two of the same length - got busted up on everything. Sure had fun though.
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Jon Really great hearing from you and really happy my K-mag found a home with you.I must clear up something with you.The first K-mag I had was a 50lb. and I killed my first deer with it in '76.Right after I bought another K-mag 55lb.the one I sold to you b/c it was getting a little heavy as I get older so I bought another 50lb. which I have now.Hope you bloody it up plenty and take care.Sorry to hijack thread should have sent a P.M. but found his post intresting.Kip
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I went for classes for work to dayand a pal of mine asked me advice about his wheelies (having problems) THERE WAS NUMEROUS THINGS I MENTIONED. just then i thought of the simplicity of trad.so then is when i realized how wonderful the feeling is when the mechanical heartachs are gone . trad bows and equipt are very gratifing to my heart and soul!
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Dad made my first longbow when I was about 7 years old. Have swtiched from longbow to compound to recurve through the years. Have come full circle to wooden longbows for the past several years.
My 7 year old son Eli has out grown his his first longbow, so I have a bamboo backed red oak bow glued up for him , will hopefully have it in his hands by the end of the week.
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It was a slow progression for me. First I dropped my wheel bow and it came apart. Had to have someone else put it back together. Then I shot 3 deer within ten yards and thought, this is too easy and not as much fun anymore. So I switched to a recurve. Shoulder injuries forced me back and forth, but I'm here to stay. Now I'm shooting the recurve and a sweet Kohannah longbow that I picked up at the ST. JUDES Auction.
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It's 57 for me, just target shooting until 1974, shot pretty good considering I knew nothing about archery, then nothing until 1996, that's when a friend of mine talked me into shooting against his wheeler. I was able to go shot for shot out to 30 yds. Started practicing and took it hunting for the first time in 1996. shot my first doe with the same Ben Pearson bow I bought in 1973, but I spined it and it just tore me up when I had to go down and finish it off. That is when I became a wheeler and said that would never happen to me again. Shot a lot of deer with that compound, but now I'm back shooting Trad. for three years now and have hunted with it, more fun than a barrel of monkeys.
I just don't seem to have any interest in shooting or hunting with compounds any more, they just gather dust now.
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I was pretty sick of wrenching on the wheelie. (I don't understand how those things can always need to be messed with?) I found tradgang in 2004 and read about how you can just concentrate and hit the spot without all the gadgetry! WOW, I gotta have me some! I had to re-join a while back, but I'm back on the trad wagon and loving it. I shoot my bow now instead of "tweak" it.
I'm pretty set to hunt with my mid 70's K-hunter this fall. `bout ready to sell my fancy compound, but I'm too scared. LOL!
That's my story, and I'm stickin to it!
B
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it was opening day last year and i scouted for months. watched a buck over and over same trail same area always by himself. i set up and as the ligth came he was on a different trail. i ranged it at 62 yards. threw my wheelie up and drilled him. after it was all over and watch him fall i got to thinking. . . . . im going to stick and string i worked to hard to reach out a touch that buck, like i had a smoke poll. bought a 1971 grizzly 50@ 28. shot it fell in love sold all mywheels. got my first trad kill about 4 weeks ago. and will never look back :archer:
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I grew up fishing and crabbing with my brothers but always wanted to go hunting but didn't know one person that hunted. When I was 22 I read an article in a 1984 Sports Afield magazine called "Comeback of the Long Bow" by Lionel Atwill. He really hit me hard but I didn't have the money to order a bow. Was still in college and on my own with barely enough to eat. In 1990 after the loans were paid off I saw an ad in Bowhuter Magazine for the Dan Bertalen Bokk "Traditional Bowyers of America" and read it in 2 days and ordered a Scorpion Longbow. Bowhunting and Archery has changed my life and I am so grateful i read that article so long ago in Sports Afield. I met some of my best friends through this sport.
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The First Time.
Back in the late 60's archery was all longbows and recurves. Purchased my first Fred Bear red bow when I was 7 or 8. Then graduated to recurves and longbows, then to wheels, then cams.
The Second Time.
I think the year was 1994, I had taken my soon to be wife Caren up to Athens to a few art shops. I chose not to go to the art shops and go to this archery Traditons place I heard about.
I walked in there and opened up my case and pulled out this cam bow I'd been shooting for years. Noticed this older gent sitting in a chair, he smiled, I smiled although I did not know who he was.
I shot the range for about an hour, shoot then adjust sights, shoot some more and tinker some more.
When I was finished, all packed up, this older gent still sitting in the chair asks if I'd ever shot a longbow. I told him I had many years ago but that was then and this, pointing at the cam bow was now.
He bet me that if I shot his longbow, he would have me hitting inside a pie plate in 15 minutes. I said, okay as my soon to be wife had not arrived yet.
My soon to be wife arrived, LATE! So for 30 minutes I got a one on one private longbow shooting lesson from Dan himself that day. I was hitting in the pie plate when I left.
That was the last time I ever shot that cam bow. I traded it for a longbow.
I grew up reading about Fred Bear, Ben Pearson, watching Fred Bear on tv specials. I later realized who Dan was and to this day, I am proud to say that I got a one on one longbow lesson from him and he converted me.
Thanks Dan.
Frank V. Rago
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I went to the Deer and Turkey expo in Columbus near my birthday. There were compounds, recurves and longbows for sale there. My wife and I discussed the fact that I would always wonder if I could get a deer with the longbow or recurve. We both figured there was no sense in me buying a compound only to buy a longbow later. We both knew I would never settle for shooting a deer with the compound. I would always want to test myself eventually. I decided on a hybrid longbow that day and put my money down on it. Been shooting and trying to get a deer every season since then. I haven't made it happen yet. Should have had at least 4 by now, but Murphy's Law is my best friend! :banghead:
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because that's all there was back in 1958. was trad before trad was cool.
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Had an old self longbow my Grandpa gave me when I was about 10. My first trad kill was a "book" grass frog. At 16 I got my first Bear Kodiak in 1970 and harvested my first buck in 71. Deer were scarce in Sw Kansas back then. Now I love my Pronghorn longbow.
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I was shooting a recurve before trad existed (started about 1970). I saw no reason to change something that was working.
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My Dad had a camp in Mercer County and a gentleman on a nearby farm always hunted trad. I always looked up to him for many many reasons.One night I shot a buck and he came along to help me track after we found him I remember him looking over my short little wheel bow that look stuck in my head for a couple years till I bought a Saxon American out of Cabelas I shot it every day till I was comfortable and I drove north to show him. I cannot explain it well but Jerry had a whole lot to do with why I shoot what I shoot.
Thanks Jerry I will be forever grateful hope to shoot with you at Denton Hill
Ed McCarriher
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I started out with one of the best high tech bows of the day when I learned to shoot. None of that old traditional "stuff" for me. Wish I still had that old 1964 White Wing recurve..
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I started hunting with a Bear Kodiak Hunter at 11 years old for "fun".. Got into compunds at 13, then somehow, ended up with a Traditional Bowhunter Magazine. Saw an ad from a guy Named John Moris, from Rocky Mountain Recurves. This was the early 90's. He sent me a demo bow, shot it a bit, then ordered a custom. That was all it took. Never picked up "wheels" again. Nothing wrong with wheel, just too much hassle.
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Well, in 1950 something that's all there was.
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I started with a Bear Grizzly. It was my father's old bow. When my Brother Broke it, I bought a compound because they looked cool, my friends were shooting them and I could afford it at a garage sale.
Archery became boring! Then I found a 30 lb stick bow at a local sale for 20 bucks. Bought a string for it, it exploded. I fixed it and shot it. Its all downhill from there.
I over paid for that bow but then again it opened a can of worms that I wouldn't trade for the world.
I must also admit the actual moment was at a fair, I took my cousins kid nephew to the 4H archery booth. I shot their recurve lights out. they were giving me extra arrows and picking out parts of targets for me to hit. I was having so much fun, I wanted to keep it up, that's when I found the old bow stated earlier.
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When I started archery back in 1965, it was the only game in town. Never did go to a compound, like my boys but I still love them. :biglaugh:
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All there was when I started shooting,went to compound but didn't feel comfortable with it,when I got out of the navy my brother who also just converted back sent me an old pearson recurve never looked back.
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I had a couple reasons for going to trad. First, I missed having a shot at a nice 8pt cause I didn't have enough time to get the pin on him. Couple days later when I saw him on my way to my blind I heard a truck slam on the brakes right where the buck had been when I saw him and guns started popping off like WWIII. Second, I got tired of the weight and everytime I shot the bow at the range things would vibrate loose or always had to adjust things to keep it tuned. Finally, I have more fun shooting trad less frustrating to me.