HH bug got me ... Part One!

[Charlie Lamb]

Nate... you know that new hat will need a flower, feather or other doo dad tucked in the band to turn on the luck?

I'll have to reread my copy of "Wild Adventure". It's been a while.

Been shooting the Crossover exclusively since my return from Kansas and have "made it mine". Really loving it.

[Nate Steen .]

Charlie,

yeah, the grouse have been throwing themselves at me this year and desiring to be in my dutch oven, so I've got the good luck feather thing going    

my crossover is customized to 'me' as well....I always trim off the little excess leather on the back.

[Nate Steen .]

Now that elk season is behind me and the bugling, thrashing bulls stayed just out of range this year,  I am getting ready to start a Hillstyle shooting discussion about a shooting technique that I learned by accident while studying the Hill form (when I crawled out of the TP hole), and since has been verified to me by someone who knew Schulz.  I have never seen this talked about in print and I've taught it to a few guys and most recently John at AL who has ramped up his shooting/hunting accuracy a bunch. This should be a help to shooters wanting accuracy over 20 yards.  stay tuned.....

[ChrisM]

Why wait Nate

[khardrunner]

Why do you do this????

It's like the videos we are still waiting for...hopeing!

Consider me baited :-)

[tg2nd]

Me too!

[Nate Steen .]

I've got to do the drawing in a decipherable manner, and like all good movies you have to have the previews...lol

[Overspined]

Hey Ron,

I shot with Louis last night and that Shrewhill is one nice shooting bow.  He's shooting it well and all you hear is a little swoosh of the string.  I shot it a few times, it's a neat bow.

[Ron LaClair]

Matt, I'm glad to hear that from you.  Louie tells me how well he's shooting it but I'll believe him now that you verified it...  

[Ben Maher]

Look forward to it Nate .

[LongStick64]

I just picked up a Shrew Hill in a trade and I am having a killer time picking between the Shrew Hill or a Eucalyptus Self Bow to bring to the woods.

The Shrew Hill is by far the smoothest Hill style bow I have shot. I love how light it is, narrow tips, sleek and smmmooooooooth.
The Self Bow is a ripper of a bow, actually think it launches arrows faster than the Shrew Hill. Guess the weather will decide my fate.

[louislucido]

Thanks Matt and Ron , for the kind words on my shooting , I have good and bad day's , but since I got my shrew Hill Things are better. That knife like handle as I call it . really keeps your handle placement right . the rest is in your head. and believe me I could use a new one every now and then!!!

[kestimator]

Originally posted by ron w:
Maybe I missed it earlier in this thread, but was there ever a Hill Bow made with a reverse handle? Just curious as I just picked up a Northern Mist Whisper and it seems kind'a neat! So what can you tell me? Thanks in advance.......ron w

I think there may have been.  I can't remember for sure...but in one of the books I've got (I think that it is Craig's) there is a photo of Howard Hill shooting a reverse handled bow.

[ron w]

Thanks.......I'll see if I can do some research.....

[Nate Steen .]

Ok fellas...here is something to jumpstart our thinking and ponder on until I get the other info compiled....

In all the old photos of Hill, Schulz, Swinehart, and other  oldtimers....when they posed for a photoshoot their form was perfect...straight line from arrow tip to drawing elbow and horizontally level with the ground.  Go back and watch old Hill dvds and Schulz' video and notice that all their shooting for form or shooting at target faces is done with their straight line form absolutely level with the ground.  

Don't get ahead of me...just look at photos, watch the vids and think about it and I will explain what one of the best kept secrets out there is all about.

[Ben Maher]

Umm alrighty then mate .....

do you mean their form is [ drawing elbow to arrow tip ] on exactly the same plane as the ground ... kinda like an equals symbol [ = ] the top line being the archer the bottom line being the ground ?

Or am I totally misunderstanding ...

[Nate Steen .]

Ben...I mean that their arrow to elbow line is straight and that it is horizontal to the ground....not angled up or down and there is no break or angle at the midpoint of the arrow/elbow line (i.e. the anchor)

Yes essentially an equals sign =

[Ben Maher]

thanks Mate ... I'm with ya ...

[Overspined]

Originally posted by kestimator:
 

Originally posted by ron w:
Maybe I missed it earlier in this thread, but was there ever a Hill Bow made with a reverse handle? Just curious as I just picked up a Northern Mist Whisper and it seems kind'a neat! So what can you tell me? Thanks in advance.......ron w

I think there may have been.  I can't remember for sure...but in one of the books I've got (I think that it is Craig's) there is a photo of Howard Hill shooting a reverse handled bow. [/b]

I've seen pic(s) of Howard Hill shooting a reverse handle bow, but I don't remember where.

Ron, you can get any Hill model in a reverse handle. They do not mention it in the catalog, I don't why that is. it is a tough choice between the NM whisper and the reverse Hill, my son declares the Whisper to be the best bow he has ever shot.  I was going to get a reverse model this year, I like how the reverse models shoot, but I opted for a new Filson coat and another hundred arrow shafts instead.  With my right hand back in gear, I am back to shooting my old favorites and shooting them good.