you spend hours stalking something and in the end you can't get to within your 15m sure hitting range and have to watch it walk.
wheelie guys laugh at you because you can't get a 2" 6 arrow group at 30m.
you barely miss a rabbit by the same amount as a pig.
wheelie guys say, "you hunt with that?"
your arrows weigh more than 400gr
your happy with 180fps
anyway, you can see where this is going. :goldtooth: go for it
My son wanted to shoot traditional this year, I have a Robertson recurve for him. I told him he wasn't ready untill he could pass up a nice buck at 25 yards because it was too far. He isn't ready. Maybe next year.
To fully enjoy being a traditional bowhunter, I think you have to be totally distanced from having to kill something before enjoying the hunt. Killing is the final destination, and to me it's the journey that's important. I am perfectly willing to be out in what God has created for us, and having a ball regardless of killing or even seeing game....if you ain't over the killing aspect, you might as well stay home.
Billy
... you post stuff on this site. :D
... mike ...
If you have to hide you new bow from your wife
If you nock an arrow, pull on a string, bend 2 limbs, release the string,hit where your lookin', and love doin' it. :archer: . If you enjoy walkin',stalkin, or standin' with a recurve or a longbow in your hands. :jumper:
If you wait to go traditional until your son is old enought to gun hunt....Idont mind a challange but I gotta have some meat!!!
....you slice your thumb while sharpening a woodsman and write about it on here instead of cleaning up your thumb. :thumbsup:
You know what "spine" means.
If your bow has a name and a personality!!
I know I'm a Traditional Bow Hunter, Because I Don't forget the wind.
If You make your own bow & arrows from wood... Your a Traditional Bow Hunter. :archer:
Also, if you miss the target, and shatter your arrow on the rocks, and all you do is laugh, and keep shooting. :archer:
After watching your "slam dunk" 11 yard Javelina jump the string turning completely around in the time it takes your arrow to clear the bow,, then all you can keep saying is, "that was amazing"...
A whole lot of fun.
JDSIII
When your out to dinner with your wife and all you can think about is snake skinning your bow quiver to match your bow!!
When your sitting at a studio movie grill on a date with your spouse and your reading threads on tradgang from your I phone like I'm doing right now. Also what Billy said!
If you don't carry allen wrenches in you quiver. If you don't worry about your bows timeing. If your meat dosen't come wraped in plastic. If a doe or cowhorn is a trophy. If you opt for a rick welch or masters of the bare bow dvd, in lue of the state of the union address. When your wife asks on monday, "Where is the shoot this weekend". When you see a tree in your neighbor's yard, and wonder if it would make a good bow. I could think of more, but the deer burgers are ready. DB
Shooting in the back yard until your back muscles ache.....just because you like to see arrows fly!!
Billy Shipp hit the nail right on the head about killing stuff.
When you've switched over after 23+ years of shooting wheels and now practice 5-7 days a week and love every minute.
Don't mind the fact that you've shot almost 14,000 arrows practicing in those 2.5 years of learning and still haven't harvested anything other than a target.
Actually have to work at tuning a bow...matching arrows and points to make them fly where you're looking.
Laugh when you're in a shop and hear a person complaining about a custom Bowtech taking 3 weeks to deliver upon order...I've waited close to 8 months!
I could go on...
Josh
If you own or have owned bows with names like Horne's, Mohawk,Black Widow, ThunderStick,Lewis Hollow, RER, Threadway,Shrew,Chaparral,Fedora,TurkeyCreek,Kohannah,Check-Mate,Martin, Bear,----->>>-----> :readit: :saywhat: :knothead: :help: . OR if you regularly converse with the good folks on this web site. :archer:
Your relaxation time is spent gluing/sanding/sharpening etc..
You can tell your wife you are going beaver hunting all night and she is ok with that.
When you've spent most of the summer rebuilding a muzzle loader that a friend was going to throw away. You finally get to take it to the woods for the first time. The sun comes up, you look down and wish it was your longbow.
When you feel remorse for the animal you have just taken, then say a prayer thanking God for the bountiful harvest.
When you hear other hunters brag about killing more than the legal limit and feel sorry for them.
When you shoot arrows at the 60yd target just to see the arrow fly.
sometimes after the shot it feels like an anti-climax
You can't go for a walk with out you bow..
When you talk to John Dill sooooo long on the phone so many nights about shooting, that your wife say's she feels like the wife on Broke Back MT. By the way I never saw the movie. must be a western. DB
When you go to the trad shoot even though Don Batten will be there smoking your best score LOL!!!
When you answer a new guys question on the powwow thats already been asked a million times.(respect)Thanks guys
When you have a 25"draw and are happy with it.
When it doesn't take three hands to get a arrow out of a target.
When your ok with telling your buddys you shot your wifes bow.
good one ozy!
if you don't need one of those multi-hundred dollar "bow presses" to string your bow.
when you show up at a 3-D shoot with a 70" yew stick and every one says "what the heck is that"? :readit:
Like I said the other day.. You find yourself sitting in front of the tv dressed in camo watching Dan and Denny shooting stuff.
Thats not right...
Joe
Ps 5 months, 1 week and 10 hours until Elk season.
QuoteOriginally posted by mbbushman:
Also, if you miss the target, and shatter your arrow on the rocks, and all you do is laugh, and keep shooting. :archer:
I was shooting next to a guy with a high tech bow the other day. He accidentally shot an arrow into the wood base of the target. It was BURIED in that wood. When he tried to pull it out, it broke, and I thought he was going to cry. Then he told me how much each arrow costs, then I almost cried.
QuoteOriginally posted by joe ashton:
Like I said the other day.. You find yourself sitting in front of the tv dressed in camo watching Dan and Denny shooting stuff.
Thats not right...
Joe
Ps 5 months, 1 week and 10 hours until Elk season.
Who is Dan and Denny? I love watching trad stuff on TV. I only watch Mr. Barta miss and act silly and Fred Eichler hit and act silly. If there is an alternative, I would like to know.
Nothing against those two, but I want to watch anything on tv that has anything to do with trad.
The wind in your face, a chaw in your cheek and a walk in the woods with a bent stick in your hand is more important than work...
When you meet someone on the Internet,go hunting and shooting with them and your wife just shakes her head and says "did you have a good time"!! And then then she says "you met him on Trad Gang?" Its now happened more than once!!!!
Oh yea, I forgot about the LONG TUBES that come in the mail or by UPS and the wife says "One more or did you trade this time"..
if your wife rolls here eyes everytime you log on to trad gang.... :rolleyes:
You shoot a wooden arrow.
You don't know how far the shot was until after you did it and paced it off out of curiosity.
You use your bow as a walking stick...
You cut up your wife's pocketbook to make handle wraps...
David
...If how you did it matters more than IF
...your bow has your name written on it, by some other guy
...your bow has someone else name on it
...you believe in the law of the harvest
dogge, I loved this one"...You don't know how far the shot was until after you did it and paced it off out of curiosity."
When you out shoot the wheelie guys at a certification shoot and you have walked away to the target and one of them turns to your wife and asks, "how does he do that, there's no sights or anything on the bow?"
search for shoots/hunts along your family vacation travel routes.
talk your wife into joining you in the self bow challenge at the TN Classic, even though she doesnt shoot at all.(I'm trying to get her hooked! LOL)
When you hunt everything with a trad bow. (http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj10/longbowben/039.jpg) (http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj10/longbowben/019.jpg) (http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj10/longbowben/100_0115.jpg) (http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj10/longbowben/100_0092.jpg)
When your the only one at a shoot that doesn't need to know the distance to the target. :D
When you get irritated at people for holding at full draw forever before releasing. :mad:
When you talk about snap shooting and nobody knows what your talking about. :notworthy:
And the Biggie, You know your a traditional bowhunter: When you've been shooting and hunting for 45 years and have never owned or shot with a compound, cause they just don't feel right!
:archer: :archer: :clapper:
80lbs your an animal. :eek:
When you can proudly post a pic of a small doe and everyone responds with "good shot" "nice job", etc...
when you can thread an arrow through a quarter sized hole in the brush to hit a 3d groundhog and the next minute you widely miss a broadside deer and your buddies just laugh and the next shot you are laughing at them for the same reason!
All the above and all the beyond!! well said guy's! :thumbsup: Jason
When it don't matter how wide the brim of your hat is.
When you shoot follow the leader with a wheel bow guy and start it off shooting from prone.
your going shot for shot with a wheelie guy, he's getting cocky so next shot you kneel down, cant horizontaly and shoot under a log 2' off the ground. then say your turn. :thumbsup:
When you can't walk to the mailbox without staring into the woods looking at trees for your next bow project.
When you have a pile of "logs" in your garage.
When you have the satisfaction of making a deadly weapon out of raw materials.
when your release aid looks a lot like your fingers, if the fight of the arrow is more memorable than how fast it got there, if you know that you could shoot one of those "archery devices" but wonder why ?? when a 10 ring on a 3-d target is a bonus that resides inside the 8 ring, every time you smell cedar you think of the last set of arrows you made.
when you LIKE to see your arrow DROP into that spot.
when you feel your calus and wish they were more even.
when you will reluctantly wait for a bow basicly identical to the one you have now.
when you can convince yourself you need that same bow.
when you tell your budies about the shot you missed more than the one you aced.
when you brag about howmany arrows you lost.
and broke
when you see a squirel out the window at church and think to yourself. PICK A SPOT
When a broken arrow doesn't bother you, becauce you love the smell of cedar.
.....you paid more for your stick than you did for your truck!
Being able to walk out of your house with wood.............and not going to jail. ;)
When your the only guy at the R100 that was able to knock the apple out the deers mouth...and the line-up of wheels that have missed and waiting their turn are stunned.
I was so focused on the shot I don't remember hitting anchor or releasing...yet I know I did!
(http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h138/oliverstacy/GEDC0546.jpg)
Josh
When you're stuck at work on sat. am reading this post, all your buddies are at the Sissapahaw Trad shoot and all you can think aboout is how you can scheme to leave early enough to make the shoot.....
When you count your blessings, not inches of antler.
You watch a huge 6 pt. bull elk walk away from 30 yards, because you're only effective to 25 yards and are stoked, not bummed.
You know how to sharpen a broadhead.
Great thread Ozy! :thumbsup:
:when you're leaving for Hawaii in 4 hours for your 25th anniversary and you're hoping the resort you are staying at has a computer so you can check TG while you are there. Now top that!!!
BOB
When your wife calles your bowyer your "bromance" cause you are on the phone with him constantly for long periods of time!
When you have your bow pointed at the tv picking a spot on every animal that comes on the screen.
When stumping is a perfect alternitive to hunting, and you actually spot and stalk stumps!
when your buddy lets you shoot his compound and you break all of his arrows
when you post here before youve even ground your beans. :coffee:
When friends want to set up a "sure thing" hunt but all you want to do is get out with your bow and take your chances on fair chase, woodsmanship, and bowhunting skills.
You know you're a traditional bowhunter.....
....if your arrows aren't plastic;
....if your nocks don't blink;
....if your sights aren't seen;
....if the challenge trumps your ego;
....if getting close is required not optional;
....if success = time spent hunting;
....if killing makes meat not money;
....if tradition actually MATTERS;
Your wife keeps "reminding" you about getting all the bows and all the arrows out of the living room...OOPS back to "cleaning up!"
When your right boot has a hole in the top of it
Well said TSP !!!!
When "how" I do it is more important then "if" I do it !!!!!!!!!!
When you complain about wheelie bows constantly.
haha jwd, that usualy equales more bs and less shooting.
When you make the 100 mile trip to Cabelas and ask for cedar arrow shafts and the guy says, "Man no one shoots those things any more! Let me show you the latest carbons with 2 inch vanes with shrink wraps."
Recurve50,
Samo with modifications;
When you drive to the airport, meet your buddy, prep his bonanza, wait forever for takeoff clearance, fly 250 miles to Cabelas, spend 30 minutes shopping for trad style equipment and can't spend more than $12.43 cause there is nothing in the store that you want or need, then fly home. All day trip!
When you pick a spot on everything you see from the "o" in stop signs to the neighbors cat while your talking to the neighbor and all he can say is "Why are you looking at my cat that way?" I know Im sick but I rarely put my imaginary "Air Bow" down for more than a few minutes.Im betting I look might odd to a lot of folks out there.And No,,, I dont need or want help!!!! :banghead:
When the smell of a cedar arrow excites you more than your wifes new expensive perfume! :bigsmyl:
when a doe walks up to within five feet of you, but you pass her up, even tho she's legal to shoot. sourowl
When, "I promise, baby, this is the last arrow" takes about 45 minutes to an hour!
You go into Bass Pro, and the stuff that interests you is not on the shelves.... but the old stuff that's not for sale, that's hanging on the walls and ceilings as decorations.
if you ever see cool stuff that is not about trad and you cant help but post it here.
When your bow has a spirit to it,and does'nt look like it was made a NASA. When you tell your friends that its not how far you can shoot ,but how close I can get. --1Longbow
When TradGang is bookmarked at your home and office computer(And you spend entirely too much time on it!)
Juan, I would add to that: Tradgang is set as my home page so it's the first thing I see.
:archer:
YOU MIGHT BE A TRADITIONAL BOWHUNTER IF:
1.The names BEAR, ST. CHARLES, POPE, YOUNG, ISHI, KROLL bring memories of long ago campfires!
2. It's always about ethics and fair chase.
3. You refer to going to the bathroom as "leaving droppings".
4. You always describe things as "upwind or downwind".
5. Your to sick to work, but not to hunt!!
QuoteOriginally posted by guspup:
You go into Bass Pro, and the stuff that interests you is not on the shelves.... but the old stuff that's not for sale, that's hanging on the walls and ceilings as decorations.
GOOD ONE!!!!
When you find that you really son't mind the smell of burnt feathers.
When your workbench is a disorganized pile of arrow parts, and the floor is littered with cedar shavings.
When you have to weed-whack around the 3d targets when you cut your grass.
When you continually have to add on to your bow rack to make room for "a couple more".
You have a bag target in the basement, and shoot from the shop at the other end.
Your basement smells like gasket laquer, duco, and burnt feathers.
if your arms are always clean shaven.
QuoteOriginally posted by jrchambers:
if your arms are always clean shaven.
:biglaugh: :biglaugh:
when your 15 and every bit of money you make goes to hunting
When you look at an old Bear Kodiak and think "That's about the prettiest thing I've ever seen."
when you shoot a deer with a gun cause you need the meat and feel like you cheated.
When the fact that it's called hunting and not finding strikes you as part of the good news.
when you have a hard time picking which bow to shoot on any given day, and still pick the same one every time.
When you are happy and satisfied to have gone hunting and you just have to feel sorry for some thickie when he asks 'didja get anything?'.
Similarly silly...
A golfer says he went golfing - reply: 'didja get a hole in one?'.
A runner says he participated in a marathon - reply: 'didja win?'.
You get the idea.
...When you can't drive past a Osage or Hickory tree on the side of the road without picturing the Bows that could be made from it in your head.
...you walk through Thrift stores looking at leather purses and jackets to make handle wraps and quivers out of.
...you actually know who Howard Hill, Fred Bear and Ishi are.
When you carry a random set screw to all 3D shoots, just to "find" it on the ground and ask the wheely shooters "Did any of you guys lose this?".
When you buy "new" tools at the antique store.
$20 for a "new" drawknife.
When your bride calls and says..."hope theres room for one more, my bows packed and I'm headed your way!" And you think, "I wish she'd been here for the whole hunt!"
It aint the kill, Its the hunt.
When you smoke the pipe and thank the Great Spirit for another day in the woods!
When your hands are stained with osage oil!!
REASONS I WANT TO BE.I like hitting that 10 ring at 40 yards with that 250 grain arrow at 300 feet a second with my new bow right out of the box after ranging it with my new rang finder.I like buying a new bow each year.To stay in that 300 feet a second CLICK.So your buddy's will like me.
You got to depend on how far and fast my bow will shoot.Im Hunting with my new bow.I have more time to hunt before rifle season because I can still shoot 75 yards.
I just want to stay in the club house where it's warm and brag about that 10 ring I just hit at 50 yards with my new bow.O'yea I have to run to LOWE's becacse they just got a new truck load of tools in.
DEAD is DEAD no matter how fast your arrow gets there.
When your trying to smash the nock off your last arrow in the target.
When you buy arrow shafts by dozens or hundreds.
The work it takes to become one with your bow so that you know you can make that clean kill, every time.
The best I ever had was when my buddy's father(both of them are wheel bow shooters), gave me that look of awe and respect after I arrowed a button buck with my old recurve.
when you are down to two arrows to shoot: and shoot at the nock of the first one you shot.
(now I have ONE).
Here's a good one... WHEN YOUR BROADHEAD BLADES DONT SHATTER ON IMPACT WITH BONE!
When you go to the range after work(yesterday) and see an elderly gentelman shooting a wheel bow and see the spark in his eyes as he admires your trad equipment and he tells you of the "old days" when that's all there was.
When watching movies like Narnia and you notice the red banana helical fletching on the arrows and watch the actors form when shooting.
You know that Archery is an Olympic Sport.
ILF is not some new quick way to text an idea.
You like the smell of wet wool.
You have socks with a permanent black bottom from stalking in the mud.
You spend 45 min making 48 inch long friendship bracelets to give to your friends that they use as strings.
When your shooting at the range with 30 other guys that are using compounds, and you are the only one with Trad stuff. They look at you like you have a third nipple :eek: , and at the end of the night they are coming up to you asking questions, and congradulating you on your shooting. You smile not because of the praise you may get, but because of the fire you may have lit!!
QuoteOriginally posted by LostNation_Larry:
You know what "spine" means.
:biglaugh: so true
When you can accurately shoot wood, aluminum and carbon arrows outta ya bow
QuoteOriginally posted by Swamp Yankee:
When you carry a random set screw to all 3D shoots, just to "find" it on the ground and ask the wheely shooters "Did any of you guys lose this?".
:biglaugh: :biglaugh:
when youve been 5 feet from a deer you planned on shootining and it walked away without a scratch
If you have read more than two pages of this post, you are Trad.
when you can honestly say that for all of the time since you switched from compound (over 20 years for me) you have not regretted it or looked back for one minute.
When your wife is actually happy if you viewing a porn site rather than chatting on Tradgang!
When your children say, "C'mon daddy, get your bow so we can shoot!"
WHen every day after work you wonder which is more important, shooting another 10 rounds of 10 into the recycled plastic container sac against the straw bales, or family responsibilities. Because you know, you just know that this next round of arrows is gonna be when you finally get it, and you KNOW you won't stop until judgement day.
when you can shoot six arrows in the time it takes them to figure out where the 12 ring is.
When you read a post like this one, and are PISSED that it's only 8 pages :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:
TRAB TWO
When you've only been hunting 3 years, have yet to harvest your 1st deer, just purchased your 1st longbow, and somehow still feel strongly you can relate to every post on this topic....so much so that you go runnin over to your boss, read her one of the awesome quotes, explain it to her, and walk away shakin your head when she tells you "no I don't think that's unfriggin real?"
TRAB THREE
When your squeezin in one more post on TradGANG, despite the fact that you have a 30 minute commute to work, it is 6:30, you start work at 7:00, have yet to shave, shower, or dress, and aren't even brakin a sweat......
You may be trad;
-If you are making plans to go stump shooting to find the arrows you lost while stump shooting in the snow.
-If you are picking spots on the deer in the front yard while reading this thread.
-If the best gift you give your daughter for her birthday is a giveaway bow from TradGang, thanks Vermonster.
-if you shop for archery supplies in the craft section of Wally World
-If reading this thread has potential for being the funniest thing you do or read all day.
Told a buddy that his sight was loose and I fixed it, watched him the rest of the day battling and adj his sight.....:-)
You take your 7 year old daughter to her first "mixed" 3d shoot. She sees a fancy modern arrow launching device and says "whats that?"
1. Take an "Archer's Bible" to Church.
2. Fantasize shooting an apple off your wife's head.
3. T-shirt says, "will work for 2-blades."
4. Climbing treestand on your clothesline.
QuoteOriginally posted by jrchambers:
if your arms are always clean shaven.
Hahahahahaha
When you read this post every day going yep that's it. that's right or me too
How about when you talk to another hunter/archer about hunting/archery without saying you can buy this and you could buy that.
You see someone in an old thread you have not seen in a while and P.M. them just to see if they are still alive. Maybe that just means I am on here to much. I think the clean shaven arm qoute takes the cake. I sharpen all my friends knives and thought i was going to have to use my leg.
If you say,
"I could make a bow (or arrows, or riser or etc.) out of that", every time you pass a piece of scrap lumber, you might be a traditional archer/bowyer.
OkKeith
If you really were "trad before trad was cool"
Shot your first deer with a bow, not a gun, and it was before any one ever heard of those new confounded bows. :bigsmyl:
Forty years ago you lusted after a '64 Mustang. Nowadays you lust after a '59 Kodiak.
If you get a gift in a wooden box and are more excited with what to do with the wood than the gift itself.
If you look on the classifieds and see multiple bows you have owned for sale by someone else.
When you debate what you should do for the weekend hang out with the girl friend or make arrows? Make arrows DUH! She can watch if she wants. :)
When you finally quit equating the cost of stuff in terms of "six packs of your favorite recreational beverage" and transition to describing the cost of things by how many "broadhead-tipped, feather-fletched, footed-shaft, self-nocked arrows" that purchase would represent...I guess that could be why my elk-huntin' rig is still a 1990 Pathfinder....
Shoot straight, Shinken
When you still have 'Fred Bear Sports Club' decals on your arrow tubes.
When your guns have not been out of their cases in years.
When Snuffers, Bodkins, Zwickeys, and Bear Razorheads clutter up the work area in your garage.
When you stump shoot regularly for the sheer pleasure of watching the arrow fly.
When high fences and 'genetically enhanced' deer don't turn your crank.
When you like the smell of wet wool.
Hahahaha I love this thread and seeing all of them that apply to me.
Looking out the car window and seeing what trees could be made into bows...
When you wake up at 2:30 am with a epiphany about adding one more thin layer of leather, and can't go back to sleep. :knothead:
...if the blades on your broadheads don't move.
...if the arrow rest on your bow is made of leather.
...if your bow just makes a light thunk noise.
...if you saw your new "camo" pattern on the Red Green show.
...if you know what a tab is.
...if you see a horse and wonder how many tabs you could make from his butt.
...if your idea of scent control is called the wind.
Finally...
...if you check the PowWow, then check your email.
When your wife owns a Mackinaw wool thong.
When it doesn't take you ten minutes to set up for a shot and another 2 minute after anchor to release the arrow.
-When you slice (or in my case, cut off) your index finger, and than God every day that it was on your bow hand and not your release hand.
-When you cant leave the computer long enough to go pee until you get through all 10 pages on this topic.
-You feel you must add your response while still needing to releave yourself.
-When you consider yourself to have an advantage while hunting with your stik and string.
-Your old friend that still hunts with wheels is waiting at the edge of the fied for you because it is to dark to see his sights, hears you shoot, and watches your fatally shot deer drop dead. Then asks "how could you even see to shoot?". You only response is "I picked a spot within the silouette".
-When some of your best friend you have met in the past 4 years since joining TG.
God Bless You All- JD
One more!
-When you introduce people at shoots by their TradGang "handle", because that is how we all know each other. JD
Offered this one before, but it bears repeating, "When how you do it is more important than how big or how many."
I have that one written down, Orion.
...when you think about getting youre bow more silent instead of faster..
....your bow is whisper quiet WITHOUT silencers.
When your bow is hanging on your wall like a work of art.
When you laugh when you miss and have a since of remorse and deep respect when you hit!! Jason
When you find morals, ethics, tradition, friendship, and character more important than how big or how many.
All my respect to those who "CHOOSE" to not take the easy route.
QuoteOriginally posted by GMMAT:
When your wife owns a Mackinaw wool thong.
ROFL!
If sharp is not sharp unless its "Scary" sharp.
For me being TRAD is
Hoping and wishing,everyday,to become half the bowhunter that Paul Schafer was and just being happy with what god gives me.
Thinking it's cool Barry Wensel once Emailed me back.
Walking right buy my high priced bows and 1 compound and picking up my old Damon Howatt Hunter that always hits where I'm looking (even if it's 10" under the deer)
Being happy for every sunrise I get to see even if I didn't see a deer
Being happy with every moonrise even though I did not see a bear.
It's knowing when the shoots too far,and that is each and everyones own choice
We all chose to hunt this way for one reason and that is so we can be happy with ourselves at the end of the day and know we did it buy our own rules
That's how you know when your Trad?
You know your Trad......
>When all your bows have been named, and you talk about them like there "people".
>When you can't take a walk without carrying your bow with you.
>When you build a pink bow for your two year old daughter
When you have a bow on the front seat of your car/truck year round
I love this post
chris <><
When your wife owns a Mackinaw wool thong. :biglaugh:
Just being abel to have the string touch your cheek. To be abel to hold one of Gods gifts in your hands and understand your part in the circle. To know your place in this world. Let they others judge themselfs. We know we are right where we should be. Just being abel to have the string touch your cheek..
When you use broken arrow shafts too:
Stir paint with
Scratch your back with
Swat flies with
To hold up snow goose decoys with
as kindling for fires
....
If you have to remove the broadhead from your wood arrows before repairing the fletching because the cats will cut themselves trying to play with the arrow while it's in the fletching jig.
If you laugh at missing the same deer 3 times in less than 5 minutes
When you can go out for a full days hunt and not see a thing and still consider it a sucess because you enjoyed yourself.
When you can stalk to within 20 yds of a p&y buck across 100yds of field then send the arrow through his antlers and still be happy because you learned something.
when you FISH with your hunting bow.
when you realize how special it is to have a bow given to you by your best friend (thanx ian) that has been used by a good hunter for decades and has taken deer before it reached your hands.
when that bow is an old pearson hunter recurve and you wouldnt trade for anything.
when the biggest fish you have gotten was taken by bow not rod and reel
oh and your welcome for the bow trey
you would rather read a post on Trad Gang about stump shooting then read about some guy's 60 yard kill shot on Archery#$!!# com.Blake
if its 11:15 at night and you get board and go shoot empty "5 hour energy" bottles off the top of a hotpocket box.
When your Ex Wife once stated she wished she was a bow.... When the mailman walks into the house with out even being invited just to see what your new bow looks like .. When you go to the Post Office and the lady already knows what you are there for and weather it's came in or not?? When you've lost count of how many times you've woken up with a longbow layin in bed beside you while watchin a video... When you've woken up with you're girlfriend beside you and wished she was a longbow...When you give all your family 3 Rivers Catalogs and told them to only get your Christmas, Birthday, Fathers Day gift from it..
You stop to look at feathers on the trail and practice in your basement in the winter.
If the first thing you do in the morning is log onto tradgang.
I laughed at that one, nybowman, since it's 7:00 AM on Sunday morning, and here I am!
... your bow doesn't look like something that came from Area 52.
yep, Sunday before Church and I've been on here twice already!
i just got up, while waiting on poptarts to nuke, here i am!
When the only reason why you leaned how to access the internet was get on this site.
When you slow down for roadkill to imagine how its skin would look on your quiver or bow
When little kids shooting stickbows gets you feeling choked up and giddy.
When you use a signal mirror to ensure the harvest photo smile is just a tad shy of your wedding photo smile.
When your looking for just the right call in your pack to entice your wife during that brief 24 hour period per month.
when you go to a bar....cuz it has a big light on the river behind it and gar live there!
when you have holes in the livingroom wall from missing an 8 yard shoot at the taget. "sorry honey".