Hello,
New member here from Wisconsin. I came to this site because I recently started reading One with the Wilderness, by Mike Mitten. I have been bowhunting for 26 years more if you count the youth hunts where I removed the suction cups from the end of my arrows and went after rabbits in my grandparents woodlot. I spent four years in the Marine Corps in the 90's and when I got out I wanted to get back into bowhunting seriously. I became a little disillusioned with what bow hunting had turned into, and so I started shooting a recurve and making my own arrows. I loved it. I hunted all through college with the recurve, but I never took a deer with it. I missed plenty. I got to the point where I felt like I didnt have the time to practice enough and also dealing with a big dose of target panic turned me toward the shotgun and bird/duck hunting. I also went back to my old compound with sights for my yearly deer hunt. I gradually got back into bowhunting more and now I feel like I need to get back into shooting traditional again. I still have a few recurves sitting around and I probably wont get to a level where I feel comfortable hunting with it this year, but who knows. I dont have any great stories of success or anything like that so I cant really contribute much expertise. I will say that I have loads of respect for anyone hunting with traditional gear. I still own and watch a copy of "Bowhunting October Whitetails" seeing Barry Wensel putting the shot on that running buck is probably the most memorable piece of video footage I have ever seen. My uncle had a copy of it that I watched probably 25 years ago when I first started hunting. There is none of the BS that I have grown to detest in todays hunting mentality just pure hunting for the joy of doing it. Anyway, good luck to everyone this season.
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