At Compton my wife and 2 little ones came with me this year. My wife shoots 1 time per year(this being her 2nd year), and I had to give her a 20 second lesson/reminder how to hold the bow, set the arrow, grip the arrow, draw, aim, release, and follow through. She is using a Howard Hill 40# 64" Redman with a straight grip.
Now, I am either a fantastic teacher or this just can't be that difficult because she hits the center of the chest of the beasts we are shooting at more than a lot of the regulars!! Of course I was proud of her, and of course she misses too sometimes, but jeeez, it just looked soooo easy!
Anyone else see this happen with rookies?
No, but I have taken two girlfriends bass fishing for the first time in their lives and both caught 4# bass on their first casts.
First casts!
In NJ a 4# bass is damn near a trophy.
I broke up with both of them.
"I broke up with both of them."
Which just goes to show that it is just as easy to lose a 4# bass as it is to catch one!
LMAO!
:biglaugh: :biglaugh: :biglaugh:
The first two years my wife started bowhunting she hunted a total of two (2) days, not even full days. In those 2 days in 2 years she shot a nice 4x4 muley buck and a nice 4x4 whitetail--which is one the wall and bigger than anything I've shot. They have all the luck!!!!!
She has yet to cloud her mind with all the senseless formulas and jargon that alot of us feel is important. She just picks her spot and shoots. Instinctively. There's that word again.
Newbys have the ability to enjoy shooting a bow for what it is without worrying about FOC, grains per inch, single bevels, etc.......
Being around a woman who can do something better than a man (read: YOU) is not a bad thing. If you're smart, you stick close to her and somehow you come off looking better. Praise the good, don't feel inferior. There's always someone doing it better. Be thankful to be associated with her. Horror of horrors, maybe SHE can teach YOU a thing or two!
I've found that when teaching someone new,no matter how old,if they have been a baseball pitcher,they are usually a natural at shooting with a stick bow(A little bit of instruction is needed to start).Everyone else seemed to get it a touch slower but this stuff really isn't hard to learn.Practice is all you need.
Biggie nailed it. We think too much. "Ignorance is bliss"...
So all I have to do is just stop using my hat rack & I'll get better?! :pray:
Man that's a blessing in disguise. :biglaugh:
"Ignorance is bliss"...Step aside Howard Hill here I comes!!!! Ignorance I got boat loads of Ignorance!!!
I don't know what you are talking about Matt, Thats how I always shoot. :bigsmyl:
Bingo, Biggie!
Biggie! Amen
Just take her shooten at that special time of the month and see how she does! make sure she uses blunts I wouldn't want you getten hurt to bad...LOL :laughing:
Find a nice hottie who looks good in a bikini and catches 4 lb bass all the time. Keep that one happy and let her catch all the big bass she wants. It all just makes you look good to all the other guys and improves the scenery in the boat to boot!
Hey Now! I know my faults in shooting, and know why they occur, but I think it is great to just give the basics of instruction and BINGO, they really work!!! HILL STYLE of course
What is really great is that I have learned over the years to keep my mouth shut and give absolutely the minimal instruction so we can remain married for the duration of the weekend shoot! I don't need to be "served" on the following Monday!
Also, she really enjoys it. She grew up as an indoor girl and her family thinks I am like a wild indian, and over 15 yrs I think they look at their daughter a little more like that every year too. I am glad she enjoys shooting, but she will never be a hunter and has no interest in killing. I am fine with that and just glad she supports my addictions.
We all love (field) tips and bass... :laughing:
Matt you have a gift ,My wife won't take any direction from me I have to go through the kids.The closest she ever came to the woods was a few bushes at the mall.And Hill style is the best IMHO of course.Good on you and keep it up.Tell her she should join the gang!
How did you get both girl friends to go on the same trip?
...and catch the same bass.
Same kinda thing happened with my wife a few years back. Bought her a lefty Black Rhino for Valentines Day and you'd think she was gut shot... Anyway...
She takes her new bow and shoots a dozen arrows into a group it took me years to do myself! Never even held a bow before that day. Said she "learned" by hearing me talk archery on the phone and reading in the bathroom library.
Figure women just learn better, faster than us. No macho BS to hold them back... So I'm Told.
... mike ... :dunno: ...
YUP Biggie is right.. (again)
Joe
mcgroundstalker...that is disturbingly funny! The bathroom library!!...LOL
Overspined, my inlaws fell the same way about me. They think I am some kind of backwoods crazed mountian man. When we went to Colorado a few weeks back my wifes mom told my wife to be careful. She said that there were people being attacked on hiking trails around there. She heard my father-in-law say in the background, "If they attack Nathan, they will with that they would have picked someone else". Even if we are a "little different" I think it is a good kind of different. :bigsmyl:
As for my wife, I have taken her hunting 3 ro 4 times in the last 2 years. She missed one and killed one. I knew that she was hooked when she said,"I could hear my hear beat in my ears". She also has taken to archery skills like a duck to water.