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Author Topic: you know your a traditional bowhunter if..........  (Read 5041 times)

Offline pebowbender

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Re: you know your a traditional bowhunter if..........
« Reply #20 on: March 20, 2009, 08:41:00 PM »
When you've spent most of the summer rebuilding a muzzle loader that a friend was going to throw away. You finally get to take it to the woods for the first time. The sun comes up, you look down and wish it was your longbow.
When you feel remorse for the animal you have just taken, then say a prayer thanking God for the bountiful harvest.
When you hear other hunters brag about killing more than the legal limit and feel sorry for them.
When you shoot arrows at the 60yd target just to see the arrow fly.

Offline ozy clint

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Re: you know your a traditional bowhunter if..........
« Reply #21 on: March 20, 2009, 08:47:00 PM »
sometimes after the shot it feels like an anti-climax
Thick fog slowly lifts
Jagged peaks and hairy beast
Food for soul and body.

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Offline Tdog

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Re: you know your a traditional bowhunter if..........
« Reply #22 on: March 20, 2009, 08:52:00 PM »
You can't go for a walk with out you bow..

Offline Don Batten

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Re: you know your a traditional bowhunter if..........
« Reply #23 on: March 20, 2009, 08:57:00 PM »
When you talk to John Dill sooooo long on the phone so many nights about shooting, that your wife say's she feels like the wife on Broke Back MT.  By the way I never saw the movie. must be a western. DB
"The older I get, the better I was" Byron Fergenson.

Offline pebowbender

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Re: you know your a traditional bowhunter if..........
« Reply #24 on: March 20, 2009, 09:08:00 PM »
When you go to the trad shoot even though Don Batten will be there smoking your best score LOL!!!

Offline sputterman

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Re: you know your a traditional bowhunter if..........
« Reply #25 on: March 20, 2009, 09:14:00 PM »
When you answer a new guys question on the powwow thats already been asked a million times.(respect)Thanks guys

When you have a 25"draw and are happy with it.


When it doesn't take three hands to get a arrow out of a target.


When your ok with telling your buddys you shot your wifes bow.

good one ozy!
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Offline sethdiggs

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Re: you know your a traditional bowhunter if..........
« Reply #26 on: March 20, 2009, 09:19:00 PM »
if you don't need one of those multi-hundred dollar "bow presses" to string your bow.
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Offline Jerry Jeffer

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Re: you know your a traditional bowhunter if..........
« Reply #27 on: March 20, 2009, 09:27:00 PM »
when you show up at a 3-D shoot with a 70" yew stick and every one says "what the heck is that"?    :readit:
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Offline joe ashton

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Re: you know your a traditional bowhunter if..........
« Reply #28 on: March 20, 2009, 09:31:00 PM »
Like I said the other day.. You find yourself sitting in front of the tv dressed in camo watching Dan and Denny shooting stuff.
Thats not right...
Joe
Ps 5 months, 1 week and 10 hours until Elk season.
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Offline 152 Sumo

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Re: you know your a traditional bowhunter if..........
« Reply #29 on: March 20, 2009, 09:34:00 PM »
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Originally posted by mbbushman:
Also, if you miss the target, and shatter your arrow on the rocks, and all you do is laugh, and keep shooting.   :archer:  
I was shooting next to a guy with a high tech bow the other day. He accidentally shot an arrow into the wood base of the target. It was BURIED in that wood. When he tried to pull it out, it broke, and I thought he was going to cry.  Then he told me how much each arrow costs, then I almost cried.

Offline 152 Sumo

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Re: you know your a traditional bowhunter if..........
« Reply #30 on: March 20, 2009, 09:38:00 PM »
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Originally posted by joe ashton:
Like I said the other day.. You find yourself sitting in front of the tv dressed in camo watching Dan and Denny shooting stuff.
Thats not right...
Joe
Ps 5 months, 1 week and 10 hours until Elk season.
Who is Dan and Denny? I love watching trad stuff on TV.  I only watch Mr. Barta miss and act silly and Fred Eichler hit and act silly.  If there is an alternative, I would like to know.

Nothing against those two, but I want to watch anything on tv that has anything to do with trad.

Offline bill langer

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Re: you know your a traditional bowhunter if..........
« Reply #31 on: March 20, 2009, 09:44:00 PM »
The wind in your face, a chaw in your cheek and a walk in the woods with a bent stick in your hand is more important than work...

Offline ron w

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Re: you know your a traditional bowhunter if..........
« Reply #32 on: March 20, 2009, 09:45:00 PM »
When you meet someone on the Internet,go hunting and shooting with them and your wife just shakes her head and says "did you have a good time"!! And then then she says "you met him on Trad Gang?" Its now happened more than once!!!!
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities. In the expert's there are few...So the most difficult thing is always to keep your beginner's mind...This is also the real secret of the arts: always be a beginner.  Shunryu Suzuki

Offline ron w

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Re: you know your a traditional bowhunter if..........
« Reply #33 on: March 20, 2009, 09:48:00 PM »
Oh yea, I forgot about the LONG TUBES that come in the mail or by UPS and the wife says "One more or did you trade this time"..
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities. In the expert's there are few...So the most difficult thing is always to keep your beginner's mind...This is also the real secret of the arts: always be a beginner.  Shunryu Suzuki

Offline ishiwannabe

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Re: you know your a traditional bowhunter if..........
« Reply #34 on: March 20, 2009, 09:54:00 PM »
if your wife rolls here eyes everytime you log on to trad gang....  :rolleyes:
"I lost arrows and didnt even shoot at a rabbit" Charlie after the Island of Trees.
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Offline reddogge

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Re: you know your a traditional bowhunter if..........
« Reply #35 on: March 20, 2009, 10:05:00 PM »
You shoot a wooden arrow.

You don't know how far the shot was until after you did it and paced it off out of curiosity.
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Offline Widowbender

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Re: you know your a traditional bowhunter if..........
« Reply #36 on: March 20, 2009, 10:24:00 PM »
You use your bow as a walking stick...

You cut up your wife's pocketbook to make  handle wraps...

David
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Offline elkbreath

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Re: you know your a traditional bowhunter if..........
« Reply #37 on: March 20, 2009, 10:42:00 PM »
...If how you did it matters more than IF

...your bow has your name written on it, by some other guy
...your bow has someone else name on it
...you believe in the law of the harvest

dogge, I loved this one"...You don't know how far the shot was until after you did it and paced it off out of curiosity."
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Offline saltwatertom

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Re: you know your a traditional bowhunter if..........
« Reply #38 on: March 20, 2009, 10:44:00 PM »
When you out shoot the wheelie guys at a certification shoot and you have walked away to the target and one of them turns to your wife and asks, "how does he do that, there's no sights or anything on the bow?"
"There is always luck about, for those willing to look for it"

Offline TNstickn

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Re: you know your a traditional bowhunter if..........
« Reply #39 on: March 20, 2009, 11:25:00 PM »
search for shoots/hunts along your family vacation travel routes.

talk your wife into joining you in the self bow challenge at the TN Classic, even though she doesnt shoot at all.(I'm trying to get her hooked! LOL)
Pick a spot.>>>>-------> Shoot straight.

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