I've been a traditional bowhunter almost my whole life. As a kid in Memphis in the early 60s my brother showed me how to make flatbows out of hickory staves and my mom helped me make bowstrings by braiding Dacron. My arrows were a reed with a heavier wood footing on the front, homemade heads and goose feathers for fletching. My bows were crude but functional. We moved to the Ozarks and I continued building bows until my mom bought me a Pearson 35 lb. bow for Christmas and I really got to moving. I took squirrels and rabbits mostly, but more than few birds fell to my homemade blunts. In the USAF I bought my first take-down recurve and killed my first deer with it in 1976 and some $1.00 arrows from a local hardware store. For awhile I went compound, but not crazy compound...a few years ago I came back totally to traditional. I just enjoy it more. My focus now is on building my stuff again when possible and getting out more than just deer season. I am very vocal to my government in Jefferson City that I do not consider crossbows to be traditional. I don't really consider some of the newer compounds to be traditional either. I'm trying to find locals who are into traditional and well, I'm just glad I'm here. My goal for the summer is to get the two groundhogs trying to destroy my farm and the coyotes that hang around waiting for a meal of chicken or pig.
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