I watched over the past few years as my daughter(Marijane)started to be drawn to the "darkside" She got herself a wheelie and did herself proud. I mean she put the time and effort into figuring out how to shoot it and shoot it good.
I think since this season started she began having some frustrations with modern archery that are different from what she grew up with. We have our challenges with tradittional gear but usually once we find the remedy it pretty much stays fixed for some time. Not the same can be said about hauling around a bow with lots of nuts, bolts and screws to viberate loose allowing this to change without much notice.
I was able to trade into an old Bear Grizzly 56" 40#@28" and this morning before leaving for the woods I put it in her car with a note asking her to check it out for me. She works P/T at one of better gun and archery shops with an indoor range.
Tonight she comes home telling what a sweet bow it was to shoot and that she was able to keep her 3 arrow groups in less thatn the bull on the indoor ranges targets. I was feeling kinda punky after hunting all day in the rain yesterday so I decided to stay home. She is headed out to the woods(or so I thought) after about 30 minutes she comes back in the house with a handfull of my arrows(one tipped with one of her broadheads) exclaiming "I can kill a deer with this!" She said out to 20 yards she could hit a leaf 3 times in a row and asked for permission to carry it to the woods. I asked about her compound to which she replied "I put it away, I can't count on it, I have to adjust it every time before I head to the woods and even then I can't trust its stayed where it is supposed to."
The "prodigal daughter" seems to have returned! Kinda makes a Trad-dad proud.
Thanks for taking time to read this lenghty rambling of a "Proud Papa"
God bless,Mudd
ps Quite a few of the old-timers will remember her as that little blonde tike that got some bigtime help from the real bowyers(lots of names found in Traditional Bowyers Bilble and some of the better ones on here) at the MoBoJam as she made her 1st bow........ sic-em Woog!!!!!
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