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Title: Passed my Martin recurve to the neighbor kid
Post by: macksdad on August 22, 2011, 06:29:00 AM

Well my neighbor has been coming over and shooting with us for a couple of months now. He is a great kid 16 and full of enthusiasim for the outdoors. He was shooting an old ben pearson bow that was marked 40# . He picked it up at a flea market , put a new string on it and started shooting. He has discovered that he likes shooting traditional, and would like to try hunting with trad equipment. We put the scale on his bow and it came in at 34#. He was pretty bummed because he was hoping it would be 40 so he could hunt with it.  A couple of weeks ago I let him start shooting my martin jaguar, #50@28 and he handled it very well.  I built a flemish string ,put some silencers, on the string, some moleskin on the limbs, and filled the quiver with some xx75 2016 arrows and handed it over to him last night. He was very happy to say the least. I hope he will stay a trad bowhunter forever.

Title: Re: Passed my Martin recurve to the neighbor kid
Post by: dirtguy on August 22, 2011, 06:34:00 AM

:thumbsup:     :thumbsup:    :thumbsup:

Good job!!!

Title: Re: Passed my Martin recurve to the neighbor kid
Post by: ckanous on August 22, 2011, 06:36:00 AM

Awesome job Steve!!!!!

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Post by: straitera on August 22, 2011, 06:39:00 AM

God Bless you & your family Steve. Genuine class!

Title: Re: Passed my Martin recurve to the neighbor kid
Post by: LONGSTYKES on August 22, 2011, 07:55:00 AM

Good stuff Steve, Your neighbor is a lucky boy to have such a good friend to help him continue on the Trad path. Good Man

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Post by: sou-pawbowhunter on August 22, 2011, 08:01:00 AM

Good on you Steve!

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Post by: Blaino on August 22, 2011, 08:03:00 AM

Christmas came early for sure!

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Post by: TJK68 on August 22, 2011, 09:34:00 AM

Way to go, a very nice gesture indeed!!!!

Title: Re: Passed my Martin recurve to the neighbor kid
Post by: 4dogs on August 22, 2011, 09:56:00 AM

:thumbsup:    :thumbsup:

Title: Re: Passed my Martin recurve to the neighbor kid
Post by: landman on August 22, 2011, 10:15:00 AM

Great job, my man.   I love giving things like this to kids who will appreciate them.    He'll remember you, your kindness and that gift for the rest of his life.

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Post by: GRINCH on August 22, 2011, 10:17:00 AM

:thumbsup:    :thumbsup:    :thumbsup:

Title: Re: Passed my Martin recurve to the neighbor kid
Post by: GreyGoose on August 22, 2011, 10:40:00 AM

Wow, what a generous thing to do for that young man, and for the community.  More than one way to reach out and touch the world with a bow and arrow!

Title: Re: Passed my Martin recurve to the neighbor kid
Post by: Night Wing on August 22, 2011, 10:42:00 AM

A nice gesture on your part. If the kid stays with trad bowhunting, he'll remember you for the rest of his life and he just may do the same thing for someone else when he reaches your age.

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Post by: huntingarcher on August 22, 2011, 10:48:00 AM

Good people do good things and you sir are good people!!  :clapper:

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Post by: Tall Paul on August 22, 2011, 11:49:00 AM

Way to go!  You made good on a chance to help a kid into the outdoors!

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Post by: luvnlongbow on August 22, 2011, 12:41:00 PM

:thumbsup:    :clapper:    :clapper:  Fantastic.

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Post by: jamesh76 on August 22, 2011, 01:38:00 PM

:clapper:      :clapper:     Great job. Love getting youth into the sport.

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Post by: saumensch on August 22, 2011, 02:19:00 PM

My hats off to you, Sir!
  :clapper:    :clapper:    :clapper:

Title: Re: Passed my Martin recurve to the neighbor kid
Post by: JohnnyWayne on August 22, 2011, 07:55:00 PM

Love stories like this  :thumbsup:

Title: Re: Passed my Martin recurve to the neighbor kid
Post by: cody94 on August 22, 2011, 08:19:00 PM

Quote

Originally posted by Night Wing:
A nice gesture on your part. If the kid stays with trad bowhunting, he'll remember you for the rest of his life and he just may do the same thing for someone else when he reaches your age.

i hope he remebers anyway that is just completly awsome how could someone forget something like that. your a nice person.  :thumbsup:    :thumbsup:

Title: Re: Passed my Martin recurve to the neighbor kid
Post by: bolong on August 22, 2011, 08:34:00 PM

:thumbsup:    :thumbsup:    :thumbsup:

Title: Re: Passed my Martin recurve to the neighbor kid
Post by: BowPlinker on August 22, 2011, 09:17:00 PM

Cool move !!!!

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Post by: Cyclic-Rivers on August 22, 2011, 09:21:00 PM

Very Cool, he will be taking you hunting when you are old and crusty.

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Post by: hammer08 on August 22, 2011, 09:30:00 PM

That's awesome!

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Post by: huntmaster80 on August 22, 2011, 09:35:00 PM

that is awesome!! now you have to take him to some of those good huntin spots I know you have.  lol

Title: Re: Passed my Martin recurve to the neighbor kid
Post by: Greyfox54 on August 22, 2011, 10:00:00 PM

Good for you ! We all get these chances in life but unfortunately few of us take advantage of them , thanks for caring and setting an example , Fred

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Post by: turkey522 on August 22, 2011, 10:31:00 PM

:clapper:

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Post by: wooddamon1 on August 22, 2011, 10:35:00 PM

Way to go!   :clapper:    :archer2:

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Post by: Want2no on August 22, 2011, 11:23:00 PM

:clapper:    :clapper:    :clapper:

Title: Re: Passed my Martin recurve to the neighbor kid
Post by: GRINCH on August 23, 2011, 01:56:00 AM

:clapper:    :clapper:    :clapper:

Title: Re: Passed my Martin recurve to the neighbor kid
Post by: Osagetree on August 23, 2011, 04:37:00 AM

:clapper: