I started bowhunting in 1962 with a Herters recurve. In 1968 I bought a Bear Kodiak Hunter. I hunted with it until 1975 when I went with a compound. I shot compounds for many years. Ten years ago I got out my compound to see if the sight was still on from the last year and I could not pull it, arthiritus in my left shoulder had got so bad I could not hold the bow with my left arm extended. I didn,t bow hunt for a year. Then one day I stopped at Cabelas and found a cheap lefthanded compound in the bargin cave. When I got home I found I could pull it lefthanded at 50 lbs. After shooting about 10,ooo arrows I got fairly accurate with it. I had been making traditional bows for other people, but I kept hunting with a compound, I felt I couldn't pull a heavy enough bow to hunt with a long bow. I built myself a lefthanded takedown longbow that pulled 44 lbs at 28 inches. I shot it in the back yard most of last summer,but when October got here I went hunting with the compound. The first day out I missed 2 bucks at about 20 yards. I used the wrong sight pin. The next Saturday I took only my homemade longbow and homemade wood arrows with Zwickey broadheads. I got a shot at a 2x2 Whitetail at about 30 yards uphill from me. The arrow hit low just ahead of the front shoulder. When the arrow hit him he took off and his shoulder broke the arrow. It looked to me like the arrow bounced off him, I was amazed when he dropped within 20 yards. The arrow broke off about 6 inches behind the broadhead and that 6inch piece penetrated completly through him and fell out the other other side cutting through a rib on the way out.
I don't believe the compound will see much use from now on. The posts on this sight with the tips on shooting helped me a lot learning to shoot a longbow again. Thank you
Topic: First deer with homemade bow (Read 741 times)
