Recurves are old school

[buckeye_hunter]

I was out hunting this morning and ran across a hunter from Georgia. We wound up setting up our stands not too far from each other. When I talked with him later he said, "I like how your hunting. It's old school." I didn't see any deer today, but the comment brought a smile to my face. I didn't realize I was old school, but I'll take it!

 

[NO SIGHTS]

This year while in the elk woods i met a wheelie hunter and he called us Hardcore with our sticks.
Feels good when they say stuff like that.

[BCWV]

Ha ha! that's good.

 I had a similar experience a while back. I was at a 3D shoot and a young compound shooter noticed I was shooting a longbow. He said that his Dad used a old fashioned bow like that "back in the day".

 While talking to him I found out that I knew his father and his father and I had hunted a few times as teens together with our trusty recurves "back in the day"!

 I thought it was amusing. You're old school and I'm old fashioned, I guess, from back in the day!

[Sixby]

Most of the compound hunters I know deeply respect and admire trad hunters. That is until they make elitist comments. Then they think of us as snobs. It is something to avoid.
I am the only trad hunter in my elk camp. The guys love shooting my bow and I am sure some of them will eventually go trad.
God bless you all, Steve

[ron w]

When I was in Colorado in Sept, elk hunting a young lady game warden stopped in to visit and check us out at camp.....she was fascinated by our long bows, most likely thought look at these old fools.....except Charlie is only 32...lol!!! I'm the old fool....    I never thought I would be old school, but I guess I would think now that's a compliment!

[Jerry Jeffer]

The Appalachian trail runs through my hunting area, so I often meet people on the trail. I have had comments like, "wow, that is a nice long bow. Now that's hunting for real!"

[awbowman]

I had someone call me hardcore for hunting with a recurve.  But most of my friends who know me call me a camper!      

[Cyclic-Rivers]

Ron, she was lookig for a nice way to check our licenses. I think she was eying me up too lol.

[straitera]

Like the connect to Old school myself. Know recurves have been around a good while. Like to know which came first Rcv or LB? You recurve boys got some slick bows to pick from.

[devonchristensen]

I was at the local archery range a few weeks ago and a couple compound shooters were having difficultly dialing in the sights on a new bow a third guy was shooting for the first time.  One of them looked up and saw my recurve and jokingly said "This guy is probably thinking to himself 'Only p----'s need sights!'"

I told them 'No', and that I was well aware they could probably get better groups at 40yrds than I could at 15.  They seemed to respect the challenge of shooting and hunting with traditional archery equipment.

I've had other folks call me hard core.  Haven't gotten the Old School comment yet, though.

[buckeye_hunter]

He was a really nice guy. I just took the compliment and smiled. I wished him good luck and I hope he gets as many deer as he can use this fall! There was no pretense on either of our parts and that's how I like it. A good woodsman is a good woodsman in my book. Just two hunters talking and wishing each other well. We all came from the same history at some point. It was a good way to end a SLOW morning....

[buckeye_hunter]

Sixby,

I agree with your statement. I have never understood why people get after someone for using the legal weapon of their choice. We are all different and, as such, have different tastes. I do get annoyed when people are breaking the law, but that is an entirely different point.

I thought that was a very unique compliment on his part!    

Shoot straight ladies and gents!

-Charlie

[BowHunterGA]

Originally posted by straitera:
Like to know which came first Rcv or LB?  

It is my understanding that straight sticks came first. Whether or not these were "Long" bows or not might be another discussion all together. The extra energy stored in the curved limbs was not discovered until later. Later is a relative term though since, at least as I understand it, Scythian bows have been traced back to 8th century BC and used a recurve limb.

[MikeW]

I've had some similar comments in the field. My reply is usually something to the effect "If I wanted to shoot game at 50+ yards I'd use a gun"
To me it's all about the challenge of getting within 20 yards of my intended quarry, that takes some skill & some luck. That's why I gave up gun hunting years ago and don't use a compound.

[buckeye_hunter]

Mike,

He wasn't insulting me. Even if he was, I wouldn't say something derogatory about his compound bow. That's his choice and it is ok.

He said, "I like how your hunting, it's old school." It was a compliment. Just a very unique one and one I like. It's kind of like the bicycle I ride. It has fenders, one speed, coaster brakes and whitewall tires! I guess both my bow AND my bicycle are throw backs to days gone past. Maybe I need to find a way to use them both at once.

[Swamp Yankee]

Originally posted by buckeye_hunter:
Mike,

He wasn't insulting me. Even if he was, I wouldn't say something derogatory about his compound bow. That's his choice and it is ok.

He said, "I like how your hunting, it's old school." It was a compliment. Just a very unique one and one I like. It's kind of like the bicycle I ride. It has fenders, one speed, coaster brakes and whitewall tires! I guess both my bow AND my bicycle are throw backs to days gone past. Maybe I need to find a way to use them both at once.

I like that analogy between a trad bow and a one speed bike.  They both share "simplicity"; the real advantage of both to me.

[bawana bowman]

I've been listening to these comments from c shooters since the things were first being made. I've never shot one and don't have anything against someone that chooses to use one.

I always seem to hear you've got more patience than I do, I'd never want to put in the time and practice it takes to shoot one of those. Thank God they invented c-pounds.
They make me feel special, which I think I am!
But..... when they see the cane arrow with stone point..... suddenly they decide I'm just "NUTS".

Oh well, to each their own...

[dave19113]

I got the "Oh your one of those guys....Nice"

[danderson]

was practicing with my recurve this week on a local offroading trail. Old timer pulls up wheeling his jeep and we get to talking about hunting. He looks at my recurve and says "you hunting with that this season?" and I said yeah. "Don't yah got a compound?"  

[buckeye_hunter]

Stone points on cane arrows are wicked old school not just old school!!!

People REALLY show respect for animals harvested with primitive equiptment. I never will doubt stone points again after I saw Tippits black bear kill. I wish he would post that back up again. It was stupid on my part to doubt it in the first place. Now I just want to try it!