Just wanted to share a nice little story about our mindsets as traditionalists and the generosity of our fellow archers.
My lovely wife is a taxidermist and at the moment we don't have a shop for her to work out if so she works at home between our two garages...she skins in my wood shed and does the finish work in the attached garage. There has been all kinds of customers come and go in and out of my house.
The other day there was a couple ol boys came by to see her work with intentions on bringing by a few bobcats and coyotes for her to mount. I had been squirrel hunting that morning and left my little Cascade Brush Hawk sitting on the kitchen table when they arrived.
The one fellow says, "Is that yours?" I say yeah. He says, "You shoot those?" I said yeah I shoot almost every day. That opened the door to a very lengthy conversation about bows, shooting and everything else traditional.
I showed him my modest collection of about a dozen bows and it turned out that he is a selfbowyer. I then showed him my hickory "bow" that is a work in progress to see what he thought about my progress on it and what I should do next. He was very helpful and insightful. I learned more from him in fifteen minutes than many hours of reading could have taught me.
They came back today and brought the critters for my wife to mount. He also brought me an absolutely beautiful snake skin backed Osage bow to shoot. We flung a few arrows down the range and soon they had to go. I tried every way in the world to get him to take his bow back with him but he wouldn't have any part of it. He wants me to keep it awhile and shoot the snot out of it just to get used to shooting self bows.
The bow is a piece of art and it shoots an arrow with authority...it draws soooo smooth too.
I don't know if you are a member here but if you are, Thanks Gene! I'll take good care of her til I see you again.
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