One Month on the Wagon!

[San Juan Slim]

Today marks one month since I viewed my last classified here on Trad Gang.  I had to swear off the classifieds because too many packages were showing up in my PO Box.  Longbows hanging in my garage/shop seemed to be multiplying with new ones showing up every few months--not to mention a bin that seemed to be sprouting wood shafts.  

Maybe next week I'll try bidding on some St. Judes auction items.  I hope it doesn't cause me to fall off.

Mike

[4-fletch]

MIKE IF THINGS GET TO BAD YOU CAN SEND IT TO MY HOUSE.L O L.THERE IS TEMPTATION EVERYDAY ON THE CLASSIFIEDS.GOOD LUCK. JAMES

[Ray]

Hang in there,you can kick that nasty habbit(LOL).

[swp]

"He who dies with the most stuff wins!"    Good luck on beating your addiction Mike the next week or so will be a good test for you.

[BowHuntingFool]

You know they say when you fall off the wagon, you fall off hard!      

[SOS]

Slim,

The best way to keep from buying bows, is to.....


wait for it.....


start building them!  Once you've built your own bow that's a shooter, hard to want to plunk down money for someone else's handiwork.

Of course the packages start rolling in from Binghams then....LOL!

[Snakeeater]

Or, he could donate some of them to the St. Jude's Auction!!! You'll be doing good and making your wife happy.

Sorry Mike, I just had to go for it.

[Toklat1]

"Get all you can, can all you get, and then, sit on the can!"  :D

[JL]

Dude, if you could put that resistance in the form of a patch...you would be a rich man.

Just think, then you could hang there day and night...

JL

[San Juan Slim]

SOS--I tried returning your PM but your mailbox is full!

Larry--I went to Buddy's when I was in Annapolis a few year's back.  Is it still there?  Eating is another of my vises.  That's why elk season can't get here soon enough so I can lose a few pounds.

Here's a couple of pix of some things I picked up on the classifieds before I gave it up:

 

This is a 15 Anniversary Big Horn Ram Hunter Longbow--62" and 62#@28".  It shoots very nice.

 

And here are some tapered cedar shafts I got from the TG classifieds.  They are nock and point tapered with a Wood Chuck I got here and the feathers were burned with a Young Burner that was also purchased here.  They will be carried this fall in a Cat Quiver IV that I got from the classifieds.  And I will pull the string back with a buffalo Big Shot glove I got here as well--not to mention the custom armguard I bought here too.  Oh, and I'll be wearing a Day One fleece pullover purchased in the clothing section.  The arrows will be tipped with one of the many 160 grain Grizzly heads I purchsed last year from the TG classifieds.

Am I hooked or what?  It's a wonder I was ever able to shoot my longbow or hunt at all before I discovered the classifieds.  I actually have been shooting and hunting with trad equipment for more than 20 years--even making arrows and strings.  I just didn't know I needed all this extra stuff until I discovered Trad Gang.

Mike