I'll get it started. First up is my go to bow. After a blowing my first shot at a deer with trad equipment last season, I'm hoping to get a little blood on it this year. Only took 4 years to get a shot, so maybe year #5 will be my lucky year.
Flatwoods custom R/D, 64", 47#@28"
Gold Tip Trad 600s with 250 gr Tusker Concordes up front for around 530 gr total.
(http://i1246.photobucket.com/albums/gg614/tomsm44/image_67.jpeg) (http://s1246.photobucket.com/user/tomsm44/media/image_67.jpeg.html)
Next is my backup bow for the season. This is actually my wife's bow. I traded for it this past spring to get her shooting with me. She found two quivers and a dozen arrows already fletched with feathers cheap at a garage sale not long after that. As luck would have it, the arrows, already cut to 28", fly perfectly off of it for me with my 135 gr Bear screw ins. This is probably the best shooting bow in my house, so I'm going to "borrow" it some since she isn't ready to hunt trad yet.
Hoots Lil Hoot recurve, 56", 42#@28"
Carbon Express Predator II 3050s with 135 gr Bear Razorheads screw ins for around 410 gr total.
(http://i1246.photobucket.com/albums/gg614/tomsm44/image_66.jpeg) (http://s1246.photobucket.com/user/tomsm44/media/image_66.jpeg.html)
Now let's see what everybody else is shooting.
Probably the same as last year. 56" Lil Hoot 54#@28
May take my 67# osage self though. I haven't decided for elk but the selfbow will be ready for whitetails.
(http://i1225.photobucket.com/albums/ee391/rjwalton8/P1000446.jpg) (http://s1225.photobucket.com/user/rjwalton8/media/P1000446.jpg.html)
(http://i1225.photobucket.com/albums/ee391/rjwalton8/20160212_135008.jpg) (http://s1225.photobucket.com/user/rjwalton8/media/20160212_135008.jpg.html)
I will be shooting my TallTines as always
Elk: 60" 59# w/ 525 grain arrows
Whitetial: 60" 55# w/ 525 grain arrows
...grizzly single bevel heads
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I haven't got my hands on it yet, but I'm sure it will be the bow I'm having built right now. Maddog Mountaineer 48@29. I've got some full length GT 3555's and 200 grain VPA's that I'm hoping will work. It should be ready any day!! I'll post a few pics when it's ready.
55# Cari-bow Tuktu Ex with either some home rolled German spruce woodies or 2018 vintage green Game Getters. Both sets fly great when I do my part.
(http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/l502/MrDwood/Mobile%20Uploads/2016-03/20160312_182448_zpstnuprjml.jpg) (http://s1121.photobucket.com/user/MrDwood/media/Mobile%20Uploads/2016-03/20160312_182448_zpstnuprjml.jpg.html)
(http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/l502/MrDwood/Mobile%20Uploads/2016-03/20160326_101932_zpslydqfjme.jpg) (http://s1121.photobucket.com/user/MrDwood/media/Mobile%20Uploads/2016-03/20160326_101932_zpslydqfjme.jpg.html)
Picked up a 40# Bear Sonoma for something to shoot while recovering from surgery and found it likes some 500's I have so I'll probably tote it during the late season if I have to hunt that long... :saywhat: :rolleyes:
(http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/l502/MrDwood/Mobile%20Uploads/2016-07/20160718_174544_zpshy8rrdkb.jpg) (http://s1121.photobucket.com/user/MrDwood/media/Mobile%20Uploads/2016-07/20160718_174544_zpshy8rrdkb.jpg.html)
(http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/l502/MrDwood/Mobile%20Uploads/2016-07/20160718_205229_zps23xzmolu.jpg) (http://s1121.photobucket.com/user/MrDwood/media/Mobile%20Uploads/2016-07/20160718_205229_zps23xzmolu.jpg.html)
Good luck to all this season!
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(http://i982.photobucket.com/albums/ae302/bruinbow/IMG_20160625_135033305_zps8sb7cebo.jpg) (http://s982.photobucket.com/user/bruinbow/media/IMG_20160625_135033305_zps8sb7cebo.jpg.html)
My Flatline Hypertension and I will carry my GFA quiver .
Dont know how to post pics any other way sorry
(http://i982.photobucket.com/albums/ae302/bruinbow/IMG_20150207_115807114_zpsta6asrk7.jpg) (http://s982.photobucket.com/user/bruinbow/media/IMG_20150207_115807114_zpsta6asrk7.jpg.html)
Or I might use my K-Mag if I'm in a tight spot .
Vintage Works 1959 Hybrid,50#,and 300 gr Tuffheads.
(http://i.imgur.com/NENzpcK.jpg)
Have not picked a bow for this year yet.....been shooting a few and have it narrowed down to 3.....I think. I better decide soon....... :dunno:
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(http://i430.photobucket.com/albums/qq29/gsavaloja/Mobile%20Uploads/2016-05/0EECF528-E251-4B2E-8F02-A79E1354FF01_zpsjohi6gzc.jpg) (http://s430.photobucket.com/user/gsavaloja/media/Mobile%20Uploads/2016-05/0EECF528-E251-4B2E-8F02-A79E1354FF01_zpsjohi6gzc.jpg.html)
Or maybe my Tall Tines 55# with Snags woodies. Probably grizzly SB or Stos 160 grn two blade.
(http://i774.photobucket.com/albums/yy25/longbowfanatic_1234/Mobile%20Uploads/F9033A96-ABE7-4742-BD4F-1691AB545DE9_zpsltlsxkhi.jpg) (http://s774.photobucket.com/user/longbowfanatic_1234/media/Mobile%20Uploads/F9033A96-ABE7-4742-BD4F-1691AB545DE9_zpsltlsxkhi.jpg.html)
(http://i774.photobucket.com/albums/yy25/longbowfanatic_1234/ED092449-E4D7-45DE-8B7B-E3CE19B90EFC_zpsfudjap56.jpg) (http://s774.photobucket.com/user/longbowfanatic_1234/media/ED092449-E4D7-45DE-8B7B-E3CE19B90EFC_zpsfudjap56.jpg.html)
Great looking rigs. Let's keep em coming.
Hill Redman, JET Wolverine, and a JET Warthog
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Going with new to me Javaman Elkheart. 56", 50# @ 28" pushing GT .400 spine darts with 250 gr. Cut (http://i1338.photobucket.com/albums/o691/toddgregory1/IMG_1851_zpslfkw4ea3.jpg) (http://s1338.photobucket.com/user/toddgregory1/media/IMG_1851_zpslfkw4ea3.jpg.html) throat SBs.
That Elkheart is stunning, Birdbow.
Going to kill lots of critters with my new Sunset Hill "White Feather" all white bow....probably mostly from the ground. POC shafts with Hunter heads or grizzlys.
(http://i481.photobucket.com/albums/rr180/two4hooking/IMG_1425_zpsga2t0urn.jpg) (http://s481.photobucket.com/user/two4hooking/media/IMG_1425_zpsga2t0urn.jpg.html)
We are hoping to make sweet magic this year. 60" Sivertip 61@28 with some Big Ol' heavy FMJ's
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Ok or one of these.
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Kempf Kwyk Styk, 56", 50 @ 28. Gold Tip 500 spine, 29" with reflective One Stringer wraps, 3 white and florescent yellow 5" Shield cut feathers tipped with 175 grain Simmons. Total arrow weight 550 grains.
Will be either my rich emery stik 56" 50@28 or my 2014 bear kmag 45@28 or maybe even an old greenie bear who knows! But my Stik is my best shooting bow for sure
WF19 ILF riser with TT limbs.
Fresh camo spray paint job. Ready to go!
Selway slide on quiver - black eagle x-impacts.
VPA 3 blade. It's go time!
(http://i1007.photobucket.com/albums/af200/mzirnsak/9A4778C6-68DA-4C94-A5E6-A92299AAF3CC_1.jpg) (http://s1007.photobucket.com/user/mzirnsak/media/9A4778C6-68DA-4C94-A5E6-A92299AAF3CC_1.jpg.html)
(http://i1007.photobucket.com/albums/af200/mzirnsak/074DB6A5-3073-4EB7-8B54-091CBC3DC7E0.jpg) (http://s1007.photobucket.com/user/mzirnsak/media/074DB6A5-3073-4EB7-8B54-091CBC3DC7E0.jpg.html)
(http://i1007.photobucket.com/albums/af200/mzirnsak/C96A8AD4-14A1-4DB0-AE4C-D3C31199C4C0.jpg) (http://s1007.photobucket.com/user/mzirnsak/media/C96A8AD4-14A1-4DB0-AE4C-D3C31199C4C0.jpg.html)
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Both of these will see action. Great Northern Ghost and Lil Creep, tapered POC with 145 gr Ribteks...about 525 gr total.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/paradocs/Mobile%20Uploads/20160711_114032_zpslexishpj.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/paradocs/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20160711_114032_zpslexishpj.jpg.html)
Predator 62@31,
.340 Three Rivers shaft,
185 Grizzly with 75gr insert+ 50 grain brass arrow insert.
310 gr total up front.
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Blood tracking dog is excited (http://i1347.photobucket.com/albums/p714/tas0323/Mobile%20Uploads/392131B6-8B07-4065-901C-3EFDF9EEEC24_zpstublpl8i.jpg)a fresh dozen arrows made up, all with brand new Grizzlys sharpened with a 30"x1" belt sander with a leather belt. A fully set up broken in string. $ extra broad heads sharp and wrapped with tape. (//) (http://i1347.photobucket.com/albums/p714/tas0323/Mobile%20Uploads/B5E6F4EF-E5E0-4FF7-BCB9-925D7995F3B7_zpsurs3bli7.jpg)
Same as I always use. 64" Blacktail Elite VL and my homemade douglas fir arrows tipped with Woodsman 125's
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v117/treekiller/Elk%20Hunt%202015/elkhunt2015-1010433_zpsxyfci3ff.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/treekiller/media/Elk%20Hunt%202015/elkhunt2015-1010433_zpsxyfci3ff.jpg.html)
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Was going to try something different this year to "change" my luck......but then I shot my old River Runner from Holm-Made bows and that was it. It performs so well and feels like an old friend. So the 60" bow will in the woods again and it's 62" brother will be my back up......both 45# @ 29", both like alum, cedars or Carbons so we shall see what the day brings.
(http://i.imgur.com/QrrgWFz.jpg) (http://imgur.com/QrrgWFz)
Same as last year... 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it!'
Good luck, shoot straight and God Bless,
Rodd
Same for me as well... Fox High Sierra 46 @ 28; GT 3555; 100 gr brass insert; 125 gr Magnus Snuffer SS.
(http://i440.photobucket.com/albums/qq125/TEAM-TIMANO/Deer%20season%202015/20151031_084302_zpsdyrmx0bm.jpg) (http://s440.photobucket.com/user/TEAM-TIMANO/media/Deer%20season%202015/20151031_084302_zpsdyrmx0bm.jpg.html)
QuoteOriginally posted by two4hooking:
Going to kill lots of critters with my new Sunset Hill "White Feather" all white bow....probably mostly from the ground. POC shafts with Hunter heads or grizzlys.
(http://i481.photobucket.com/albums/rr180/two4hooking/IMG_1425_zpsga2t0urn.jpg) (http://s481.photobucket.com/user/two4hooking/media/IMG_1425_zpsga2t0urn.jpg.html)
Classy set up! I dig it.
I am still trying to decide which setups I will take with me next week let alone what I will hunt with all season...I probably have a dozen bows that will hunt with me this falls...life is good
DDave
QuoteOriginally posted by JimB:
Vintage Works 1959 Hybrid,50#,and 300 gr Tuffheads.
(http://i.imgur.com/NENzpcK.jpg)
Absolutely STUNNING bow!
Same as last year for me! Sarrels Blueridge longbow 50@29.5". Ziricote riser with red accent stripe, black walnut/black glass limbs with kudu horn limb caps and tips. Also have hand engraved brass bolt bezels!
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(http://i579.photobucket.com/albums/ss239/archeryrules/Mobile%20Uploads/2014-08/bezel%201_zpsw2nbdrxr.jpg) (http://s579.photobucket.com/user/archeryrules/media/Mobile%20Uploads/2014-08/bezel%201_zpsw2nbdrxr.jpg.html)
(http://i579.photobucket.com/albums/ss239/archeryrules/Mobile%20Uploads/2014-08/53AFC101-B1B5-4C6C-8867-55D54CD85A70_zpst1nsnkvg.jpg) (http://s579.photobucket.com/user/archeryrules/media/Mobile%20Uploads/2014-08/53AFC101-B1B5-4C6C-8867-55D54CD85A70_zpst1nsnkvg.jpg.html)
Bisch
Thinking this one may be first on deck.
Newwood Stealth longbow.
64" 47@28.
Kanati quiver, shooting Axis Trads 500 spine with 250 up front and 1.25" footing. Simmons Safaris on the business end.
(http://i582.photobucket.com/albums/ss261/NBK4455/Stealth.jpg) (http://s582.photobucket.com/user/NBK4455/media/Stealth.jpg.html)
QuoteOriginally posted by Bisch:
Same as last year for me! Sarrels Blueridge longbow 50@29.5". Ziricote riser with red accent stripe, black walnut/black glass limbs with kudu horn limb caps and tips. Also have hand engraved brass bolt bezels!
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(http://i579.photobucket.com/albums/ss239/archeryrules/Mobile%20Uploads/2014-08/bezel%201_zpsw2nbdrxr.jpg) (http://s579.photobucket.com/user/archeryrules/media/Mobile%20Uploads/2014-08/bezel%201_zpsw2nbdrxr.jpg.html)
(http://i579.photobucket.com/albums/ss239/archeryrules/Mobile%20Uploads/2014-08/53AFC101-B1B5-4C6C-8867-55D54CD85A70_zpst1nsnkvg.jpg) (http://s579.photobucket.com/user/archeryrules/media/Mobile%20Uploads/2014-08/53AFC101-B1B5-4C6C-8867-55D54CD85A70_zpst1nsnkvg.jpg.html)
Bisch
That is a SWEET looking bow Bisch! wow!
I think I'm going to start the season off with my handmade eastern woodland style selfbow "Adahy" (Ah-Dah-Hey - Cherokee for 'one who lives in the woods'). She is 64" ntn and 65# at my 27" draw. Will be shooting Surewood hunters grade shafts spined 55-60s with Onestringer custom wraps and 135 grain Zwicky Deltas.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v352/Number01hunter/Hunting%20Season%202016/IMG_0028.jpg%20resized_zps6b0hfjae.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Number01hunter/media/Hunting%20Season%202016/IMG_0028.jpg%20resized_zps6b0hfjae.jpg.html)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v352/Number01hunter/Hunting%20Season%202016/IMG_0033.jpg%20resized_zpshuyjwnwz.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Number01hunter/media/Hunting%20Season%202016/IMG_0033.jpg%20resized_zpshuyjwnwz.jpg.html)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v352/Number01hunter/Hunting%20Season%202016/IMG_0032.jpg%20Resized_zpslyrewtjk.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Number01hunter/media/Hunting%20Season%202016/IMG_0032.jpg%20Resized_zpslyrewtjk.jpg.html)
Then as a backup or if I get too frustrated with the SB I will go to my 64" ntn 57# @ 28" RedStag from Carpathian Traditional Archery with Easton Traditional Only Shafts cut 28.5" with 100 grain brass inserts and tipped with 150 grain 3 blade VPA terminators!
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v352/Number01hunter/Hunting%20Season%202016/IMG_0034.jpg%20resized_zpszpp0p9ji.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Number01hunter/media/Hunting%20Season%202016/IMG_0034.jpg%20resized_zpszpp0p9ji.jpg.html)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v352/Number01hunter/Hunting%20Season%202016/IMG_0035.jpg%20resized_zpsslty6boh.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Number01hunter/media/Hunting%20Season%202016/IMG_0035.jpg%20resized_zpsslty6boh.jpg.html)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v352/Number01hunter/Hunting%20Season%202016/IMG_0036.jpg%20resized_zpsk1eidpk7.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Number01hunter/media/Hunting%20Season%202016/IMG_0036.jpg%20resized_zpsk1eidpk7.jpg.html)
Come on bow season!
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Morrison Dakota 54#. 4 Zwickey No Mercy broadheads, 3 in back quiver, 1 in my homemade stalking quiver. Knife, glove, and armguard. My old magazine pouch with first aid/basic survival stuff, gloves, 550 cord and bags for field dressing and dragging, a backup tab, grunt tube and turkey diaphragm, and some space for a snack, thin gloves and headnet. Just need to attach a water bottle to my quiver, might make something from an old seabag. Oh and a fluflu and regular arrow with blunts, in case a squirrel or rabbit charge after me
should receive my new maddog in about a week. but for Mondays opener it will either be 43# maddog prairie predator with 29" gt 600 and 150 gr tuskers. or my 50# indian with 29"2016 gg and some magnus 1 w adapters weighing around 170 gr. once the new maddog arrives and I get it tuned it will be what I use this year 52@28. arrow and broadhead tbd. pics to come.
I will hunt with at least 20 bows this fall. They will all be ready with quivers full and broadheads sharpened.
TallTines Stickflinger, FMJ's, Abowyer Brown bears or Simmons Safari's
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(http://i.imgur.com/zJxes0B.jpg)
I'll be using my 60" Morrison Cheyenne this year. I'll be shooting black eagle X-impact .400's and 300 grain VPA 3 blades. My backup bow will be my old proven Foley with FMJ .500's and Simmons interceptors up front.
Jake
Mine for now is my bw plv 62" 50@28 with 3555 gold tip blems at 29" with 175 grn vpa's on the business end. I've got a jack kemp kwyk stick on the way now that I hope to get tuned before season so I can hunt with it also. This is also my first year back to trad in about 15 years so I'm excited to see what happens! Good luck to everyone and be safe!
Nick
Well, my setup has changed slightly since I started this thread last month. The more I shot my wife's Lil Hoot, the more I liked it, so it is moving to my #1 spot and the Flatwoods longbow will be backup. I did some fine tuning with the arrow setup and am changing from the Razorheads to Simmons Interceptors. I also noticed a couple of the arrows were flying funny. They came already fletched from a yard sale with a quiver my wife picked up. When I looked closely, I noticed they were fletched with a straight fletch jig and all the feathers didn't have a consistent angle. I had some leftover spliced 5" shields from a project a couple years back, so I capped, crested, and refletched them with two 5" shields on a right helical. I'll find out this evening after work how the new fletching flies.
(http://i1246.photobucket.com/albums/gg614/tomsm44/image_98.jpeg) (http://s1246.photobucket.com/user/tomsm44/media/image_98.jpeg.html)
Bear Red Stripe riser with Rose Oak #2 limbs. 50@28 drawing 29.5". POC 60/65s with a Bear Razorhead on the front
(http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c291/marcbishop/IMG_20151024_094346561_zps8qgpi0n5.jpg) (http://s29.photobucket.com/user/marcbishop/media/IMG_20151024_094346561_zps8qgpi0n5.jpg.html)
I have the great good fortune of having been drawn in June for a New Hampshire moose tag. In the weeks since, there's been a competition to choose a primary bow and a backup from the three bows I have that exceed 55#.
The leadoff hitter will be the bow at the top of this array. It's a Talon Classic longbow made by the late Dave Paxton in 1996 as a prize for a Professional Bowhunters Society banquet. (I'm its third owner.) It is built of sassafras, 64" long and drawing 60#.
The backup will be the 1958 Bear Kodiak recurve at the bottom. The camo sleeves will conceal the (in)famous blonde limbs from the suspicious gaze of Alces alces. This bow is 60" long and draws 58#. It won a chance to go on this hunt because it's a helluva good shooting bow and will shoot the arrows I use for the Talon Classic.
I'm leaving the middle bow at home. It's a Morrison Dakota R/D, 58" long and drawing 58# at my draw length. I shoot the Kodiak better.
The arrows have been built by me from Surewood Douglas fir shafts, bearing 190 grain Meatheads on the front. Total weight is 670-690 grains.
Thirty-six days and counting ...
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I changed mine since this thread started. Same Predator recurve but using my AD Trad tapered shafts. Every year just as the season arrives amy tune changes. So AD trads get moved to starting position. They aren't the shafts to win the olympics with but they have hunting accuracy. Meaning they shoot good in adverse conditions and with extreme weather changes.
56in rich emery Stik 50@28 drawing 29.5 arrow dynamic shafts unsure if I'm going to shoot the same G5 montecs or not. And I usually seem to switch it up a few times during the season this year my super grizzly 45@28 with GT trads may make a couple of appearances. These are the two I shoot the best
I have 3 ready to go. All shoot the same 28" arrows,,gt500 w/125gr. snuffer, axis 500 w/bear razorheads, or Doug firs w/160 ribteks.
1. 1970 bear supermag,,,50#
2. 1970 browning wasp,,,47#
3. 1974 bear super griz,45#
Sarells Sierra longbow, footed Gold Tip Traditionals, Kanati Dual Arc quiver, Badger broadheads or RFA Talon blunts or Judo points, J. Holden custom calls, a self-made skinning knife, and some Leupold binoculars.
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The Lil Creep gets the call, with tapered cedars and 145 Ribteks...Ghost will be in the bullpen. Chair-Pak backpack chair and Rivers West poncho complete the set up.