Has anyone been shooting the same bow for decades?I am still shooting the same bow I started shooting over 30 years ago.When I decided to try archery I wasn't impressed by those compound contraptions.I found an article in the back of an archery magazine about an archery shop in Georgia run by some guy named Dan Quillian.Dan sold me a Bamboo Longhunter 65#@28 complete with a VHS video with everything I needed to know about shooting the Longbow.This was back in the day before girlie bows were recommended for starting shooters.It's a wonder I learned to shoot,eh!.I know some like a new bow on a regular basis and there's nothing wrong with that yet I'm still shooting that Longhunter.I was just wondering,Is it just me or are there others who are content with shooting the same bow for decades?
I do still have my first trad bow but it's been retired for 20 years. I did shoot it this week end but just a few arrows.
I like to build my own bows, so I rarely use the same bow for more than one season. That being said, when I'm on the 3D course, I fear the man who only has one bow.
I still have and shoot a Darton Ranger that I bought in Ontario, Canada in 1974, 58", 52lbs @28". Its not hurt so I'll be using it for a long time yet. I also still have my Indian archery bow in wooden case I had as a kid.
Wildcat hunter, I killed my first two deer with a Darton Ranger and my wife is still using it. I shoot it every now and then and wonder why I need new stuff.
Rob
Wow, Thats unheard of these days. I dont really have a choice...I only have one bow. The one I have now, I made up my mind when I got it I was gonna learn the bow inside and out. Not sayin I don't want another...but for now I'm content with what I have.
Jason
What a Prize! One of Trad's finest. Great bow! Great weight! Dan would be proud! Any pix?
I've been shooting my longhunter built by Dan for the last 30 years as well....time flies, I also have one of his recurves and its also a fine and very fast bow. Mines a red elm 68 inch 68 lbs.
I only live about 20 miles from where his shop was and used to enjoy BSing with him in his shop on the weekends. Quite a guy.
You are a bowyer's worst nightmare, but as for me I think that's pretty darn cool!!
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My hats-off to you! If I could do that I reckon my shooting would improve. I have a Quillian Bamboo Longhunter and it is a sweet bow for sure.
I have been using my 1st recurve an Appalachian Archery savage river that I bought at the PBS Banquet at Wheeling WV in 1990. To this day it is the only bow that I have owned and even though it is showing its age I will not change until it finally gives out. It still shoots where I look and has made dozens of kills why fix what is not broken.
Not mine originally, but I'm carrying on with my father's Temujin. It's a couple years my senior, but still shoots well. Wouldn't mind notching a deer with it some year to go with the caribou my father harvested with it decades ago.
I would think that you must shoot it very well and like the others have said, why fix what is not broken.
I am also content with what i got witch are two longbows. can't see buying anything else since both bows are great. I believe having two if something happens to one during hunting season then i have a back up.
I'm not the greatest shot but I have no doubt that I can get the job done.Occasionally I do run across a bad arrow.During the summer when fishing is on my mind I may go a month or longer without shooting.When I take that Longhunter down it's just like I shot her yesterday.I guess it's the ole riding a bicycle thing.I do own a '67 Grizzly but I basically shoot it for fun.I have a fascination with the Longbow.I don't think I'll ever get over it.
My wife wishes I would do that, but it hasn't happened yet. I think it was Gene Wensel that said bows are like good friends, you can't have too many.
i want to do that, i want to find that right bow and have one and only one bow for everything. I ordered a Black Creek Siren t/d and hopefully that will be it
That wing in my avater is over 34 and it still hunts.
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I will like to be shooting any bow in 30 more years !!!
Contentment is not having what you want, it's wanting what you have. :thumbsup:
Was there a "till death do you part" section on that video? :clapper: :clapper:
If I would have been smarter in my younger years, 40 years ago, and listened to John Schulz, I would still be shooting the bow he recommended to me. Although I was shooting a 35 year old Schulz the other day, the bow I bought after I got a little smarter, but then there were all those bows that I bought after I got dumber again.
My first bow blew up at full draw, so I don't have it any longer. I do hunt with a 38 year old Kodiak Hunter, but I haven't owned it that long.
Ground Hunter,that bow will be here when I'm gone barring any unforeseen mishaps.My youngest son shoots a longbow and I'm sure after I'm gone he'll pick her up and run a few arrows through her and maybe think about the ole' man.I guess it will be 'till death do we part.
Nothing wrong with what you are doinmg, I wish I could do that, I'm sure I would be a better shot. Those Longhunters are good bows, no doubt about it.
I still hunt with a 42 year old 52", 50# Red Wing Hunter that I bought brand new in January 1970. Hopefully I'll learn how to shoot it well one of these days :banghead:
I still have my first bow a Person Hunter I bought new in 1967. They in 1974 bought a new Astro II. Used that bow ever since, until this year. In 2011 got a Samick Sage like it alot but still favor the Astro.
I have a '66 Kodiak I bought used about 1992. Killed my first couple of archery deer with it. I have been thinking about how nice it would be to use it to hunt with in 2016 in it's 50th year just to honor the old bow that helped show me the way. Hopefully I will be alive and kicking by then and have the opportunity.
I still have my first bow my dad bought me in 1963. At 35 lbs., it's not legal to hunt with in Arkansas.
My second bow was a 45# Ben Pearson Hunter I got for Christmas in 1968. I still have it also and sometimes use it for bowfishing.
Your question reminded me of an old west quote I once heard,"Beware the man with one gun, he probably knows how to use it!"