Who hunts their "pretty" bows?

[wapitimike1]

Why buy a bow if your not gonna put it through the punishment of use. I like good looking bows but I use them all the same. I never worry about resale I buy them for me.

[WildmanSC]

I have bought very few ugly bows.  I take all that I own, for whatever period of time, to the woods.  Even though I like the beauty of the woods, I like even more so the beauty of the shooting qualities of a bow.  And if it has great shooting qualities, it is a hunting bow, IMHO.

Bill

[David Mitchell]

Pretty bows are sort of like pretty canoes.  A guy I know worked in an outdoor store that sold canoes and kayaks.  He sold a new one to a guy who promptly took it out to a gravel parking lot, tied it to the back of his truck and drug it all over the lot for a while--said he would be laughed off the river if he showed up to meet his kayaking friends with a spotless, scrath free boat   :cool:  I don't buy a bow I would not take to the woods.  Once they get a scratch or two I can stop worrying about that first one.

[Nook]

A bow Is not "Pretty" If it Does not Hunt!!

My Shafer Longbow Last Fall:

 

My Blacktail recurve in Iowa a couple of years ago:

 

Jeff

[Otto]

You guys hunt in your tennis shoes?  I mean...why own a pair of tennis shoes if yer not gonna hunt in em?????

You guys all hunt in your black dress pants??  I mean...why own a pair of black dress pants if you ain't gonna hunt in em?????

You guys all gut deer with a paring knife????  I mean...why own a paring knife if you ain't gonna gut a deer with it???

[GingivitisKahn]

Originally posted by Otto:
You guys hunt in your tennis shoes?  I mean...why own a pair of tennis shoes if yer not gonna hunt in em?????

You guys all hunt in your black dress pants??  I mean...why own a pair of black dress pants if you ain't gonna hunt in em?????

You guys all gut deer with a paring knife????  I mean...why own a paring knife if you ain't gonna gut a deer with it???

Lol I do hunt in tennis shoes (so did Fred Bear) when the weather is right; I would wear my gray wool pants to work if I could stand the heat; and I have used my hunting knives to trim spots off my apples.

What else ya got?

   

[RidinMyK2PastU]

I do hunt with my "pretty" bow. That bow is my sidekick, I want to take it everywhere. It has acquired some scratches, but I do my best to keep those to a minimum. When I notice a new scratch, it does hurt the heart a little.

[m'gobo]

I don't own an ugly bow. lol

also, I wouldn't own a bow with anything but clear glass on it. The way I see it, why get a wood bow if yer gonna hide the wood under black glass? JMO

[Outwest]

I've got a PLGA that I just can't bring myself to take out in the brush and rain.
I shoot this bow as good or better than any other I have and enjoy shooting it in the yard and at the range.
Guess I'm going to have to pick up a PL11.
John

[rxhntr]

I love to hunt with my pretty bow---it would be bad mojo not to utilize a tool that is that pretty and also that functional. And we all know that you just cant allow bad mojo in!

Hunt in my tennis shoes---check
Hunt in my brown dockers--check
pairing knife---well no--I use my pretty home made hunting knife.
lol

[Clint B.]

In the olden days B.C. (before compounds), bows were made with colored fiberglass limbs and laminated exotic wood risers with a high-gloss finish. Since camo limb tape & socks were heavy (especially when socks got wet), many of us (possibly most of us?) sprayed the limbs on our hunting bows with flat colored paint. Back then, painting your bow was a sign that you were serious about bowhunting.

[Otto]

You mean...kinda like this???

 

[oldskool]

I still love that bow Otto

[myshootinstinks]

Now there's a huntin' bow.  

[Sam McMichael]

The only bow I own that I would not hunt with is an old 1940's era Ben Pearson longbow. I just don't know if it will still  be safe to shoot regularly. Otherwise, I have no problem taking all my bows in the woods, because I agree that they are working tools as well as works of art. They should be used in whatever role the hunt calls for. Just this past season, I steppd on a copperhead in the woods, and out of sheer panic  reaction used my Wesley Special as a war club - it performed well in that role, too. Point is, use the bows and hunt hard. Then, if they just get too beat up, refinish them. Cherished memories are far more precious than a beautiful bow finish. After all, the bow finish can be restored. Missed memories are lost forever. (By the way, the snake encounter is a definte long term memory event).

[David Mitchell]

They didn't turn out that pretty, Otto    I now figure if an animal can see my bow they have already seen me 'cause I'm a whole bunch bigger than my skinny little bow so I don't bother with painting them any more...Dave

[Nakohe]

I hunt with pretty bows and pretty arrows. LOL They were made to hunt.

 

[Quinn]

I had a hard time taking my pretty new Toelke Chinook hunting, hated the thought of messin' it's pretty looks BUT it's a bow and it's  needs to be hunted.

[LA Trapper]

Yeah, you try not to bang them up, but they were made to hunt. That's the way I look at it.  

Billy

[Dick in Seattle]

What woods to use, based on their looks, is the my first decision in building a bow, and I use only clear glass to show it off.   I don't have any bows to hunt with that I don't think are pretty.  8^)