I've known Jeff since he was about 8 and he's now in his mid-twenty's. When he was very young I took him a box of reading materials having to do with traditional and primitive archery.
We lost contact with each other from high school thru college then last year out of the blue he called wanted some help with his compound bow. I helped get him up and shooting again but while he was here I brought out some of my stick bows and let him shoot a few of them.
Flash forward to this early Sept. and once again Jeff called but this time he wanted to visit about those simple bows. It seemed that his compound was giving him problems that was going to require a trip to the archery shop and big bucks. In his words, "I'm sick of this and I would like to try using something simple like what you shoot."
I loaned him a nice but old JC Penny long recurve made by Wing archery. As it turns out Jeff had a lot of natural ability and was hitting what he was looking at from about 12-15 yds pretty consistently before he left that day.
I asked him to keep in touch.
A few weeks ago he called and came over. He wanted me to sell him a bow. I told him he needed to shoot several different bows and styles of bows until he knew what it was he felt most comfortable shooting.
I loaned him a variety of bows to shoot at home. The last one was a Bear Take-down Hunter that after about a week looked like a good marriage. I mean I was totally impressed with how he shot the bow.
A few days ago he came over and was relating his experiences from the past week. One was a narrow miss of a doe at about 7 yds., another was a close encounter with a buck but no shot opportunity. He's now hooked on traditional bows and hunting the hard way(from the ground).
I wish I could accurately describe the emotional excitement I could read in his voice and the telling of his experiences.
After all that I couldn't turn him down when he asked me if I would sell him the bow. I did! I made sure it was well within his means to afford.
I am very proud of Jeff and I am the one who is blessed by knowing him. I think he just may show up on here in the not too distant future.
If he does I know what kind of welcome he'll receive.... so thanks in advance!
God bless, Mudd
PS: His best buddy is still shooting wheels but Jeff is starting to spoil him too!!
Topic: Another Young Convert To Traditonal Bows (Read 571 times)
