Shakespeare on the rocks

[George D. Stout]

Shakespeare Necedah that is.  The rock pile makes my shoulders hurt.  These were picked to clear fields for the small farms that settled these mountain sides back in the early 1800's.  This area is now State Game Lands....if it could only talk.

 

[ishiwannabe]

Very nice George. I love the stone walls...to think of all the work that went into them.

Nice looking Shakespeare too, I have one...an X-18. Great little bow.

[Charlie Lamb]

George... In my early twenties, I was walking our local field course alone. A couple of guys caught up with me at the last target which was the eighty yard walk up (we hadn't "walked up" yet).

I guess I must have looked like I knew what I was doing because one of the guys held out his bow and asked what I thought of it. It was a Shakespeare Necedah. I told him I thought it looked like a nice bow and he offered to let me shoot it.

Not wanting to offend, I took one of his arrows and bent that little bow to full draw. The arrow slipped away and the end of it's long arcing trajectory was in the very center of the standard field round target.

I handed it back to him and said, "yep. Real nice". I got out of there real quick to have a very private and well deserved heart attack.
  :D  

They are a little short for me but real good shooters.

[Dave Worden]

Nice bow, George; great picture.  I shoot a Super Necedah that my wife bought for me in 1971.  Love those Shakespeares.  The wall and Charlie's mention of the field course reminds me of the 60 yd shot on our course the has the remains of a stone wall and two of my broken arrows just behind the target.  Unlike Charlie, I missed the bulleye, and the 4 ring, and the 3 ring, and the target, and the butt, but I sure nailed that pile of stones!!!

[smoke1953]

The Necedah was my first bow and The Necedah Refuge is where I do much of my hunting. Nice picture George.

[Stinger]

Great picture.  I still have the Necedah that I had when I was 15.  I took my first deer with that bow.  It's funny, now at 55 I find it hard to pull and tough to shoot well.

[Jeff Strubberg]

Nice little bows.  I wish they hadn't designed em with that pancake-flat shelf, but a little leather and contact cement fixes that right up.

We grow rocks here in Missouri.  If you keep your eyes open, you will find low stone walls all over.  They weren't built to keep anything out or in, that's just the way you waste the least arable ground without having to cart every rock outta the field.

[Killdeer]

Stone walls are all over Virginia. My folks told me that most of them were built by slaves. They would walk across the field and pick up as many rocks as they could, and dump them on the other side. Then walk back.

They are good places to stop and take a long think.
The WMA where I do my catch and release squirrel hunting is full of them.

Killdeer