Thinking about selling my longbow I used to kill my first two animals. I have tennis elbow issues, and will be switching to lower weight recurves. Just wondering if you've ever wanted your first kill bow back regardless of its current value or if your able to even shoot it?
Life is a journey, if you hold on to to much you never move forward.
So Nope passed it to a younger guy starting out.
Nope, would rather someone else be killin' with it, if I no longer can.
Well I just started out a couple of years ago and have never loosed an arrow at an animal yet, mostly because I have not been serious enough (can't say I had total confidence with the longbow before now)to get after them hard, but now I'm on a mission now.
Hopefully I will shoot my new Toelke for a looooooooooong time. When I do retire it, I think I'd rather see someone else enjoy it. Think I'll give it away to some deserving person.
Having said that, if I did not/do not find a deserving soul, it will live on the rack forever.
Your the one who harvested the animals, not the bow.I know were y our coming from, but Iv' learned not to hold feelings for material things. ( of course I think most of us do )We should save the feelings for those we hold dear.Your neither right nor wrong. Its' all in the level of sentiment.
Any family member to pass it down to?
I collect memories and pictures thats about it. I don't like to dust.
Rob
Rob's right in my book.
An old man once told me (probably read it somewhere):
"POOR IS THE MAN WHOSE LIFE IS FILLED WITH NOTHING BUT THINGS!!!!!!!!"
Pay it forward, pass it on, whatever you call it, it's what gives meaning to your life.
What have you done about your tennis elbow? When I had tennis elbow my doctor told me to use an elbow brace,can be found at most pharmacys for around $10 to $15.I used the elbow brace when shooting,helped greatly when shooting.Then I went online and looked up PT excercises for tennis elbow.I did the excercises with ice and rest,used the brace when shooting.My tennis elbow cleared up in a couple of months,didn't have to get any cortizone shots.That was a couple of years ago,hasn't been back and I still do the PT excercises.
I had a pretty bow one time that I didn't shoot particularly well. I remember telling my buddy to hurry up and sell it for me before I dorked around and killed something with it and it became part of the family.
There is a whole host of other stuff I can do without, but the few bows that I have killed things with are not among them. Fortunately for my wife, I pretty much stick to the ones I have.
When I pick up an old bow that I have killed something with it talks to me...
I did have had regrets on a bow one time. I'd used a bamboo backed osage bow to kill and elk one year and had hung it up after the season. The next year I had a bit of bad luck with a new bow involving a truck door and decided to bring the old bow out of retirement and dressed it up with some snake skins.
Yep it happened, I broke the bow shooting a few days before the hunt and took the glass bow I should have used instead.
I really wanted that BBO for the wall.
Mike
I regret not starting out in the 35-45 pound range and staying there.
I still own my 1st bow I ever killed with .I am NOT a sentemntel. I will buy a bow 1 week an sell it the next. however my frist bow was a northernmist long bow It is going to the grave with me. I will never sell it an I mean it has been said to my wife.It goes with me when I part this place.also I have a awsome shaffer silver tip this bow will NEVER be sold.It shoots lights out. It makes me look WAY better then I really am. this bow I will not take to the grave it is a true work horse! an needs to be shot for ever plus its too damn pretty.
i don't even remember what my first kill bow was! It was maybe a Bear Grizzly or maybe a Redwing Hunter. i have a couple of bows that i will probably never part with for sentimental reasons, but not because of the animals killed by them/me. But then catch me at the right time, and i might part with them too if you needed them worse than me. :)
Sent a 62# Brackenbury to Iraq for the troops to use; took my first buck with it, but it got too heavy. Haven't regretted it, but often wonder what became of that bow.
I still own and hunt with the bow i killed my first deer with.. I have owned 16-17 bows and have no problems letting one go.
I have always liked to try new bows, so I have never kept them very long.
Thanks all.
I have lots of bows.....I have owned many more,still have not killed anything with any of them. So I guess it really don't matter to me.I would love to be able to have to make that decision....lol!
My first recurves, and my first deer were Right-Handed. I switched to LH shooting in 1996 so I wouldn't use them if I had them.
Once in a while I'm tempted to buy a Pearson Cougar when I see one because that was my first hunting rig. I terrorized chipmunks with it from age 13-15. I killed the first live deer I ever saw with it when I was 16.
The only bow I regret a little is a Fox High Sierra I sold or traded away (?) about 2 years ago. It was my first re-entry into recurves after switching to the compound in 1975.
None at all. The first tradbow that I took my first deer with stacked, pinched my fingers, was slow and would rattle your teeth out. The day I got rid of it was one of the smartest things I've ever done!!!
DanAdair, on another board, recently described a good stickbow as having a "soul." Something along the lines of the bow having a life of it's own and we just getting to share a small part of it's life. Made a lot of sense to me, no reason to squirrel them away unused.
QuoteOriginally posted by Mojostick:
I regret not starting out in the 35-45 pound range and staying there.
Me too my friend!
Yeah, I bought, sold and traded a whole bunch of 50-60lb bows that frankly I was over-bowed with. Now, due to a shoulder issue, I'm in the lower weights, but shooting better than ever and I'm getting complete pass-thru's on deer with 41-42lbs.
I'm to the point now where I have virtually no doubt that I can not only kill deer with light weights at my close 10-14 yard shots I set up for, but that I could do so with 30-35lb bows, if I were to choose to do so.
At 12 yards, shooting a broadside deer from a natural ground blind/stool, with a perfect arrow setup and razor sharp 2 blade, I'm confident that with a 35lb bow that I can hit both lungs exactly where I want and watch the arrow skip in the dirt after it passes thru. I'm not sure what else I could ask for?
As the title of the thread suggests, I regret trying to force more draw weight, thinking I could "grow into it" and thinking in terms of how far and fast I could shoot. Now I think in terms of how close can I get/how low in weight can I go and still make ethical kills. That mindset is a much better place for me. Oddly enough, it took bone spurs inflaming my rotator cuff to come to that conclusion.
I killed my first deer with a Ben Pearson "Ol Ben" and gladly passed it on when I got a chance to buy a Howard Hill Bow.
I still have the memories,but no desire for the bow back.
Each person would need to ask that for themselves...the fact that you asked....means to me you would regret it.
I would too.
Some people are sentimental and some are not. If I didn't pay attention, my wife would throw away most of my "junk." I did not keep my first trad bow, but will keep my first trad deer kill Zipper - but there are some other reasons for that. :D
I'm not sure, and I'm not going to try to figure it out now.
But I sure did enjoy reading everyone's replies.
Good post NIGEL01
QuoteOriginally posted by Mojostick:
Yeah, I bought, sold and traded a whole bunch of 50-60lb bows that frankly I was over-bowed with. Now, due to a shoulder issue, I'm in the lower weights, but shooting better than ever and I'm getting complete pass-thru's on deer with 41-42lbs.
I'm to the point now where I have virtually no doubt that I can not only kill deer with light weights at my close 10-14 yard shots I set up for, but that I could do so with 30-35lb bows, if I were to choose to do so.
At 12 yards, shooting a broadside deer from a natural ground blind/stoll, with a perfect arrow setup and razor sharp 2 blade, I'm confident that with a 35lb bow that I can hit both lungs exactly where I want and watch the arrow skip in the dirt after it passes thru. I'm not sure what else I could ask for?
As the title of the thread suggests, I regret trying to force more draw weight, thinking I could "grow into it" and thinking in terms of how far and fast I could shoot. Now I think in terms of how close can I get/how low in weight can I go and still make ethical kills. That mindset is a much better place for me. Oddly enough, it took bone spurs inflaming my rotator cuff to come to that conclusion.
I most definately agree! I knew a fellow bowhunter in Ohio that hunted exclusively with a 38 lb. take down recurve of his own make and design! Many a deer fell to that bow. He even had photos of his trips on hog hunts to Florida using the same bow and killing some nice hogs for eating!
As far as regrets on a bow, I would like to get my old Chek Mate Falcon with maple limbs and riser back. It was a shooter and fit me like a glove.
No, I don't like to keep things I know I won't or can't use. Doesn't mean I don't think long and hard about a bow that was special to me, but fact is I don't keep them and can't think of any lasting regrets.
I made the correction to "stool" in my above post, from the incorrect "stoll" that I originally typed.
To the point of selling a bow, once you've gotten to the point where you're looking for other bows, you probably already made a decision on that bow. Especially if one is too much weight.
Contrary to conventional wisdom, most bows can be replaced, as long as the bowyer is still making them. I didn't say all, I mean most.
Now, if you have a certain vintage bow in mint condition that you may not find again, then you probably shouldn't sell.
But if you have a bow that if you sold due to being too heavy for an elbow or shoulder, and you can pick up the phone and order a similar bow in lighter weight, then why not sell and get the bow that's better for you?
It's not whether I killed something with a bow that makes it special, it's usually how I aquire it. Gifts from friends, family stay as they symbolize a strength in the friendship. Bows built by a special bowyer friend stay . As does my original Silvertip. Others can go......
I traded off a 58# Bamboo Longhunter that I wish I had back. Its the first and last bow I intend to get rid of.