you know your a traditional bowhunter if..........

[MI_Bowhunter]

Originally posted by jrchambers:
if your arms are always clean shaven.

Hahahahahaha

[Yelloweye]

When you read this post every day going yep that's it. that's right or me too

How about when you talk to another hunter/archer about hunting/archery without saying you can buy this and you could buy that.

[Mo. Huntin]

You see someone in an old thread you have not seen in a while and P.M. them just to see if they are still alive.  Maybe that just means I am on here to much.  I think the clean shaven arm qoute takes the cake.  I sharpen all my friends knives and thought i was going to have to use my leg.

[OkKeith]

If you say,

"I could make a bow (or arrows, or riser or etc.) out of that", every time you pass a piece of scrap lumber, you might be a traditional archer/bowyer.

OkKeith

[saltwatertom]

If you really were "trad before trad was cool"

Shot your first deer with a bow, not a gun, and it was before any one ever heard of those new confounded bows.  

[Rick Butler]

Forty years ago you lusted after a '64 Mustang. Nowadays you lust after a '59 Kodiak.

[TRAD JOE]

If you get a gift in a wooden box and are more excited with what to do with the wood than the gift itself.

[daveycrockett]

If you look on the classifieds and see multiple bows you have owned for sale by someone else.

[celticknot]

When you debate what you should do for the weekend hang out with the girl friend or make arrows? Make arrows DUH! She can watch if she wants.  

[Shinken]

When you finally quit equating the cost of stuff in terms of "six packs of your favorite recreational beverage" and transition to describing the cost of things by how many "broadhead-tipped, feather-fletched, footed-shaft, self-nocked arrows" that purchase would represent...I guess that could be why my elk-huntin' rig is still a 1990 Pathfinder....

Shoot straight, Shinken

[centaur]

When you still have 'Fred Bear Sports Club' decals on your arrow tubes.
When your guns have not been out of their cases in years.
When Snuffers, Bodkins, Zwickeys, and Bear Razorheads clutter up the work area in your garage.
When you stump shoot regularly for the sheer pleasure of watching the arrow fly.
When high fences and 'genetically enhanced' deer don't turn your crank.
When you like the smell of wet wool.

[UnderControl16]

Hahahaha I love this thread and seeing all of them that apply to me.

Looking out the car window and seeing what trees could be made into bows...

[twitchstick]

When you wake up at 2:30 am with a epiphany about adding one more thin layer of leather, and can't go back to sleep.  

[30coupe]

...if the blades on your broadheads don't move.
...if the arrow rest on your bow is made of leather.
...if your bow just makes a light thunk noise.
...if you saw your new "camo" pattern on the Red Green show.
...if you know what a tab is.
...if you see a horse and wonder how many tabs you could make from his butt.
...if your idea of scent control is called the wind.

Finally...
...if you check the PowWow, then check your email.

[GMMAT]

When your wife owns a Mackinaw wool thong.

[J-dog]

When it doesn't take you ten minutes to set up for a shot and another 2 minute after anchor to release the arrow.

[longbowjim]

-When you slice (or in my case, cut off) your index finger, and than God every day that it was on your bow hand and not your release hand.
-When you cant leave the computer long enough to go pee until you get through all 10 pages on this topic.  
-You feel you must add your response while still needing to releave yourself.
-When you consider yourself to have an advantage while hunting with your stik and string.  
-Your old friend that still hunts with wheels is waiting at the edge of the fied for you because it is to dark to see his sights, hears you shoot, and watches your fatally shot deer drop dead.  Then asks "how could you even see to shoot?".  You only response is "I picked a spot within the silouette".  
-When some of your best friend you have met in the past 4 years since joining TG.  

God Bless You All-  JD

[longbowjim]

One more!
-When you introduce people at shoots by their TradGang "handle", because that is how we all know each other.  JD

[Orion]

Offered this one before, but it bears repeating, "When how you do it is more important than how big or how many."

[GMMAT]

I have that one written down, Orion.