An age old question but always a good one and one well answered here by all above.
Bows came into my life about around 1957. No one in my family had or or EVER had one to my knowledge....
From then on it was love at first skinned forearm!
I drove my parents mad when we DID go to town to buy MORE 19 cent hardware arrows for my all wood, warped, high school shop made recurve a neighbor didnt want. Arm guard? Glove or tab? I had no clue they existed. No mentor, no idea of what I was doing...except it was a part of me from day one. Perhaps sharing a birthdate with HH was my "curse" lol.
I was in my teens before I was able to hold in my hand a bow that wasnt homemade. You whipper-snappers give that some thought.
Nothing was safe and mom always said she KNEW where Steven was at all times......out shooting his bow with Spot tagging along.
No better times were ever had by boy and companion out "hunting" sparrows and you name it!
Of course, wood was the ONLY option then and, for me, the "zing" of archery is solidly linked to those first years when life was so simple and fun.
Times have certainly changed for me as an aging adult.......but part of me remains in that young boy and his Fox Terrier cruising the fence rows and thickets, stalking and shooting.
Wood arrows were also part of my first "serious" archery sets and I think I hang onto the past as much as I am able.
With a 60s recurve in my hand and woodies on my back with age appropriate broadheads.....time has taken a turn back to a simplier time and they have yet to fail me.
Ive tried all the arrow matierials. Still shoot a few "new fangled" fiberglass ones too.
The deer just didnt seem to notice all the high tech statistics of the "new and improved" shafts.
Dead is dead as the saying goes and since it ain't broke.....no need to "fix" it.
With the high costs of our trad stuff today, one of my thrills, that remains a thrill every year, is an old used recurve and 30-40 yr old arrows and heads that I dont have 100 bucks in all together.....successfully doing today, what they did "back then"...and doing so just as well.
My "quest", odd though it may be, is to find as many 1952 items as I can afford (aka CHEAP) and take ye olde wiley whitetail with the set up from the year I came kicking and screaming into this vail of tears.
Size be danged....a trophy that will be...for me.
Additionally? A broadhead on an arrow should LOOK LIKE a broadhead on an arrow. Tough to explain.
Wood, feathers and a two NON moving blades are mandatory to me........or it isn't TRULY an "arrow".
I fell in love with a certain way, believe in it and it has proven time and again worthy of such dedication.
To me, it is not mearly a question of THEIR "worth" but more so if we, ourselves, are worthy of using them as those that have gone before us.
Sorry......windy old coot anyway.
God bless
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