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Archery
- Thread starter Rjstoner
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Years ago I used to own firearms but when I started growing I sold them all due to the legal implications. You can have two plants and a .410 shotgun you use to shoot rabbits and if you are busted the news will call you a heavily armed narcotics manufacturer. So I took up archery to continue to be able to hunt. I shoot a traditional longbow. A straight limb D bow. 46lb draw. I use it to kill pigs.
I quit growing in '04 but I still have never bought anymore guns. Never bothered. Where I hunt its so thick that all shots are close anyway, and the animals on the "archery only" land aren't so skittish like they are in the rifle areas.
Anyway, deer are too skittish to get into the range I need on the ground, and I can't shoot a 64 inch long bow out of a tree. So I plan on buying an older model, but still new bow from ebay. Lots of archery stores buy bows that end up not selling, and four years later they are only a couple hundred dollars new in the box. You can get a new Matthews bow that was top end four years ago for about $300 new in the box.
I also intend to make a traditional American Indian bow like the ones that were used in my area. Carve a bow out of a hickory stave, and use traditional arrows and string. I don't think I'll hunt with it though.
I quit growing in '04 but I still have never bought anymore guns. Never bothered. Where I hunt its so thick that all shots are close anyway, and the animals on the "archery only" land aren't so skittish like they are in the rifle areas.
Anyway, deer are too skittish to get into the range I need on the ground, and I can't shoot a 64 inch long bow out of a tree. So I plan on buying an older model, but still new bow from ebay. Lots of archery stores buy bows that end up not selling, and four years later they are only a couple hundred dollars new in the box. You can get a new Matthews bow that was top end four years ago for about $300 new in the box.
I also intend to make a traditional American Indian bow like the ones that were used in my area. Carve a bow out of a hickory stave, and use traditional arrows and string. I don't think I'll hunt with it though.
Rjstoner
Member
Same in the UK , bowhunting banned so long ago and crossbows only ever get negative press , often owned by gangster wannabees in tower blocks who lack the balls to get properly tooled up.
Went head to head against an experienced traditional longbow user on a rifle range once , 100 yards man size target , ten arrows against two five round stripper clips in an Enfield .303 in 30 seconds, was a dead heat but i dropped a shot , he had ten arrows in a six inch group and won a sizable bet.
He was struggling at 300 but still had hits , the penetration was shocking for such a slow moveing projectile on 2mm hardened plate steel which a 9mm failed to penetrate at that range.
Would have been a devastating weapon in its day , wish i had started in my teens , would be a lot less pain than starting in your fifties.
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what, no traditional archers on here? gave away my last confound bow, too many bells, whistles & screws. when target shooting with compounders, i'll deliberately drop a small allen head screw on floor, pick it up & ask "which one of you folks bow did this fall out of?" then, i get to shoot my longbow by myself for a half hour or so while they try to figure out where that #$%^ screw came from...
i forgot to tell the crossbow name. barnett revolution xs 160lb dr 119 foot pounds energy. i know all about ranges and crossbows this is my second one. most compound targets wont fare well with bolts from crossbows and they go real deep LOL i used to go to an indoor bow range back east all the time. my first target from walmart the bolt went right through LOL the BLOCK however does work well.
i used to bow fish for carp in pa. never ate em but they make good fertilizer. HIPPY i started with traditional no sights or nuthin. way more skill needed. but i like technology too. as i get older it gives me the edge.i used to make my own strings as a kid a skill i have forgotten.
does anyone else use a laser rangefinder? i sure do love it
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Fastcast
I use a cheap one,but it works.I try to figure out distance without it though.
Rjstoner
Member
i want this one but will probably start of with something cheaper
http://www.dickssportinggoods.com/p...33188&camp=CSE:GoogleBase&camp=CSE:GoogleBase
http://www.dickssportinggoods.com/p...33188&camp=CSE:GoogleBase&camp=CSE:GoogleBase
Rjstoner
Member
@ supermanlives barnetts are dope wish i had the chaching to pick up the barnett ghost im able to shoot crossbows at my block
but i never shot as good a crossbow as you have at it we used a barnett jackel and a no name called juaguar
my block is this one
http://www.cabelas.com/product/Hunt..._stype=GNU&WTz_l=SBC;BRprd728722;cat103978980
but i never shot as good a crossbow as you have at it we used a barnett jackel and a no name called juaguar
my block is this one
http://www.cabelas.com/product/Hunt..._stype=GNU&WTz_l=SBC;BRprd728722;cat103978980
