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Author Topic: The way I am!  (Read 319 times)

Offline barley40

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The way I am!
« on: February 17, 2012, 04:53:00 PM »
Most may not give a hoot about the way I am, but it feels good to lay it out there and see if there are kindred souls that feel the same way. I am not too much into stone points and rawhide strings but I do appreciate a good hickory longbow with a good B-50 endless loop string and wooden arrows fletched with graybarred turkey feathers. I don't much care for devices with wheels unless it's to ride on. If others like em, thats ok, just not the way I am. I like good laminated longbows and recurves as long as they are made of wood and glass, and they don't necessarily have to be super fast with skinny, fast flight strings. I know thats the trend even in trad archery. It's just not the way I am. I just never believed it was supposed to be a tech game. I started in 1964 with a Pearson recurve from Kmart. B-50 endless loop was all there was. Then in the '70s the wheels appeared and I thought no one will buy those tacky things but boy was I wrong. Heck, you could be almost as accurate as a rifle in a week with almost no effort at all. I just dropped out of bow hunting and shooting for a few years til I found out you can make your own stuff if the local "archery" shop no longer has it. I'm glad to see Trad come back the way it has in the tradition of Pearson, Bear, Hill, etc.. The other stuff don't bother me a lot. Just don't call it archery. For what it might or might not be worth, it's just the way I am.

Offline lpcjon2

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Re: The way I am!
« Reply #1 on: February 17, 2012, 05:01:00 PM »
I think I have to ask my wife " how I am ", she's the boss...LOL

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Offline JAG

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Re: The way I am!
« Reply #2 on: February 17, 2012, 05:33:00 PM »
I'm in good shape, for the shape I'm in!
I'm the same way., make all my own gear when possible.  Osage Selfbow, river cane arrows,most everything I build.  Long as techies don't bother me, no sweat.  To each his own.
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Offline Killdeer

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Re: The way I am!
« Reply #3 on: February 17, 2012, 05:53:00 PM »
They had K Marts in '64?

Killdeer   :dunno:
Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke;
And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

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Offline Rob W.

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Re: The way I am!
« Reply #4 on: February 17, 2012, 05:59:00 PM »
I think I have multiple personalities. One guy is a military type minimalist who likes full camo, fast carbon arrows, short glass longbows, and hard hunts in adverse conditions. The other guy is more of primitive romantic who likes wood bows, wool, homemade stuff, and dreams of hunts like ones on a Tradional Bowhunter cover. Both guys get together each fall to try to fill the freezer and soak up the outdoors.


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Offline Gray Buffalo

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Re: The way I am!
« Reply #5 on: February 17, 2012, 06:17:00 PM »
barley40  

I'm with you bro. I hunt with the same typ of equipment I did in the early 60's. I do this because it fun and makes me feel good. Thats who I am
I try not to let my mind wander...It is too small and fragile to be out by itself.

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Offline Ragnarok Forge

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Re: The way I am!
« Reply #6 on: February 17, 2012, 06:19:00 PM »
Enjoy who you are.  Just remember that your definition of archery is not another man or woman's.    In 20 years carbon and foam limbs will be old school, something else will be high tech and people will not like the new stuff.
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Offline Mudd

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Re: The way I am!
« Reply #7 on: February 17, 2012, 06:20:00 PM »
Quote
Originally posted by Killdeer:
They had K Marts in '64?

Killdeer    :dunno:  
Hahaha!! Killie dear they had K-marts when I was a kid.

God bless,Mudd
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Offline barley40

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Re: The way I am!
« Reply #8 on: February 17, 2012, 06:23:00 PM »
Yes, Kmart had one in Florence, Alabama.

Offline ishoot4thrills

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Re: The way I am!
« Reply #9 on: February 17, 2012, 06:33:00 PM »
:o     :confused:    :dunno:    :deadhorse:    "[dntthnk]"
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49# @ 26.75"
165 FPS @ 10.4 GPP (510 gr. hunting arrow)
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Offline Killdeer

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Re: The way I am!
« Reply #10 on: February 17, 2012, 07:57:00 PM »
Mudd was a kid???   :eek:  

Oh my. I have reached the age where I have to relearn everything!! It was hard enough the first time!

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And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

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Offline Mike Mecredy

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Re: The way I am!
« Reply #11 on: February 17, 2012, 08:15:00 PM »
UMMMM...I think that's "how most of us are" here.
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Offline Bowwild

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Re: The way I am!
« Reply #12 on: February 17, 2012, 08:22:00 PM »
I looked it up. I don't remember seeing Kmart that early either. It was Mr. Whiggs for me (now they are gone).

But....
 S.S. Kresge Corp. opened the first Kmart store on March 1, 1962, in Garden City, Michigan

Great to know and be who you are.  I'm a lot different except: I love to bowhunt, I love wildlife and forests, and the flight of an arrow is more appealing than the flight of a Penguin to me.

Offline Mudd

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Re: The way I am!
« Reply #13 on: February 17, 2012, 08:26:00 PM »
OK Killie... you got me.. I'm still a kid...lol

God bless,Mudd
Trying to make a difference
Psalm 37:4
Roy L "Mudd" Williams
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Archery isn't something I do, it's who I am!
The road to "Sherwood" makes for an awesome journey.

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