A rookie's tale

[jjwbny]

With this being my second post I am a traditional rookie in the purest form. I have been shooting compounds for 17 years and have decided i needed a new challenge. I purchased a take down recurve from the classifieds here (rose oak tomcat)and just received it two days ago. I have to admit in just two days I am addicted! I've shot the last two days at two different indoor ranges and have been pleased with the results. I know with time I'll get better and more confident. This traditional game is all you guys made it out to be and more!! If any one reading this is lurking like i did wondering if traditional archery is for them.....try it!!! The feeling of watching that arrow stop in the bulls eye and knowing that you put it there with nothing more than a stick and a string is unexplainable!!!  Thanks for all the good advise and reading. I hope to post a picture of my first traditional deer in the fall.

Jeff

[Hot Hap]

You picked a good bow in the Rose Oak! I have one of the upgrades and it's a shooter for sure.
Welcome to the gang.

Hap

[Robert Cunfer]

Welcome Jeff, Your first trad harvest will be awesome....Keep at it....Bobby

[scedvm]

Welcome Jeff.  Sounds like you did well with your first bow purchase.  Be careful about looking at too many of the pics guys put on here of their bows or next thing you know you'll own 20!!...Shawn

[Stumpkiller]

Welcome Jeff.

No better combination of exercise, meditation and outright fun than archery with a manly bow.  (Them girly bows ain't so much exercise).

[Mike Most]

Dont forget the strings, the arrows the armguards etc etc......what a ride. Welcome from Texas

[Huntschool]

Welcome to the campfire

[JAG]

[riverrat 2]

Welcome to "real archery". The story is familiar,
all of us here can relate.

[straitera]

You new guys make my day. If any consolation...it's still just as exciting after 33 straight years! Welcome. Best of luck.

Oh by the way, see that barn door over there? See the hay meadow behind it? Missed 'em both with my first trad shots.

[Spectre]

[SEMO_HUNTER]

Welcome to the gang Jeff!

I have to agree with everything you just said. I struggled with my recurve for years and kept getting frustrated with it then I would just put it away. I never did feel confident enough with my shooting to carry it to the woods until this past summer. I made up my mind it was going to be the Grizzly or nothing at all.
I almost gave up completely cause I just wasn't "seeing it" until one day it just finally clicked. I started seeing my arrows fly into the kill on my 3D buck and there was no better feeling of relief. I felt like I had been sitting in a dark room for years and somebody finally flipped the light switch on.
I'm hooked for life now, still got my wheelie but I hardly ever shoot it. It just doesn't seem as fun anymore, at least not as much as my trad bows are to shoot.

I got my first coyote ever with a bow this past fall and I killed it with my Bear Grizzly!  

[KentuckyTJ]

Welcome from Kentucky.

[bowkevin]

I know how you feel ,Jeff. I too just started and am commited to hunting with a longbow this fall. Good luck to you.

[joe ashton]

trad gear is amazing.

[Green]

Welcome Jeff....it's a lifelong obsession.....gear up and welcome to the gang.

[ARCHER2]

Welcome Brother from the deep south, Louisiana!
You won't regret it!

[jjwbny]

Thanks for all the encouragement!! Much more positive advise here than the constant "bashing" threads on the wheel bow forums. Thanks again for the refreshing change of pace... I think i like it here!!

[cacciatore]

Welcome;there is something magic in a simple weapon casting an arrow.

[Mudd]

Welcome to the tradgang family.

Enjoy your journey along with the rest of us.

God bless,Mudd