Look What I Found--"The Longbow" mag

[David Mitchell]

While digging through some drawers today I ran across an old issue of a great little magazine called "The Longbow" which was dated Jan/Feb, 1987.  Intresting picture on the cover.  The Red Bandana Brigade--left to right, Tom Jenkins Jr., Tom Sr., Tom Rogers, Les Dunkel, and our very own Ron LaClair.  Some excellent articles that were like reading something new again.

 

[Rooselk]

Very cool find!  

[David Mitchell]

I'm not sure when it went out of publication, but it was a neat little magazine.

[Longbowwally]

Good little mag. I've got 8 issues. I'll sell them if anyones interested.

[Hud]

It went bust, leaving this subscriber without a refund.

[Eric Krewson]

I subscribed to this magazine or perhaps it was The Longbow Digest. The strange thing is, shortly after it went belly up I got the premier issue and started receiving issues of Traditional Bowhunter mag even though I never subscribed to the later publication. Always wondered if there was a connection between the Longbow Digest and the editors of TBM.

[toddster]

Cool, have been thinking of making a little mag like that, just to present info and stories as well as a longbow a month.

[Cottonwood]

Looks great, but spotted a blooper in the picture.

[elknutz]

Hmmmmmm compound longbow?  They probably put a beatdown on him right after they took the pic.

[cacciatore]

Really interesting,I like old pics and stories.
For sure to save.

[David Mitchell]

Don't confuse this one with the Longbow Shooters Digest which was later changed to the Traditioanl Archery Digest.  That one was published in Chadron, Nebraska by Harvey Overshiner.  This little mag came out of Louisiana.  And, uh, yeah, bloopers do happen  :rolleyes:  but this was back when people did not get their panties in a wad about them.   :D

[Ron LaClair]

The Longbow Magazine was put out by Bill Bagwell. It was a good publication and filled a void in Longbow news back in those days. I wrote a few articles for the magazine back then.  The cover picture on that 1987 issue was taken at a deer camp in Northern Michigan near St. Helen, Fred Bears old hunting grounds. We called our group the "Red Bandanna Brigade"

The man on the left is Tom Jenkins an old friend who I just got done spending 10 days with in my U P deer camp. The man with the compound was Tom's dad Tom Senior who has passed on now. The fact that he shot a compound was no big deal. It was an old cheap bow with I think 50% let off and old Tom shot it with fingers.

Here's a picture taken last week at my camp Shrewhaven and that's Tom Jr on the right and me in the middle.

   

[centaur]

After seeing this post, I vaguely recalled writing an article for that magazine 'way back when'. I found it wasting away in a stack of mags in the garage. The article that I wrote was "The Ultimate Bowhunter".  Thanks for jogging my memory!
 

[lt-m-grow]

Ron, It looks like you are down to one red bandanna in the crew.  

Big bodied deer on the left too.

Love the new shack, wheel chair and dead deer accessible I see.

[Hawken1911]

There were Dr. Ashby broadhead reports way back in 1987???...Wow!

[Greg Szalewski]

Ron, why do you folks in MI hang your deer up side down? We do it the right way in WI. 8^)

[Ron LaClair]

Ron, why do you folks in MI hang your deer up side down? We do it the right way in WI. 8^)  

When you hang a deer from the head the blood runs down into the hind quarters.  

[Greg Szalewski]

Hmmmm, I dunno about that, sounds like yooper logic to me.

[Ron LaClair]

Actually most Yoopers are head hangers, maybe they got it from the Cheese Heads...      

Ask any Butcher, beef and hogs are hung from the gambles because of the blood thing. Also it's easier to skin and butcher that way.

[Chris Shelton]

Originally posted by Hawken1911:
There were Dr. Ashby broadhead reports way back in 1987???...Wow!

Thats what went through my mind, I knew Doc has been at if for a long time, but WOW!