Trad Gang

I like hearing about tha different types of rig everyone uses.Maybe some pics too.

This year I have 2 Bows both use the same arrows.
Carbon Wolverines 30" with 100gr incerts 150gr Magnus 2Blade or 150rg WW.The arrows weight 630gr.
The Bows are a PAW 57# @ 28" and a Palmer single carbon 58# @ 28".

TO ALL
Good luck this season,be safe
Steve

I'll be shooting A RedWing Hunter 45# @ 28 with 31" 2216. Magnus II 125gr with a 30 gr PDP weight. Total 585 gr. 12.1 FOC

Great Question! First let me say sorry you didn't make the Muzzy Shoot this year. Had nice weather... Both Days.

This deer season I'm gonna leave the BW at home and use my "new to me" John McCullough ~ Griffin ~ longbow. It's 56", 50# @ 26". First time hunting with wood arrows also. Found I can get Wensel Woodsman broadheads very sharp on a flat stone.
Bought a bison hide back quiver form Tollgate at the Muzzy Shoot. This year (like all other years) I'll be stalking heavy cover indian style with all this NEW stuff.

Thanks For Asking ...  :)  ...

... mike ...

Border Black Douglas "Swift" 61#@28.5. Wensel Woodman's on Gold Tips. 545gr wt. Took a nice bear in June with it, hoping for some whitetail this fall.

Right now the front runner is a 60" DAS Master Hunter pulling 56# @ 32". I've got a Warfed Black Bear riser with the final coat of finish curing in the basement. With medium SF limbs, it's 64" and pulls the same weight as the DAS. Depending on how things go when I get it set up and tuned, it may make an appearance or two (three, four, whatever) this fall. I've also got my old 62" Chek-Mate Hunter II out of retirement as a backup bow. And one of these days, my new MOAB should be arriving from Jim Reynolds (who was kind enough to donate it to the UBI banquet auction).

So many choices...

Turkey Creek longbow 42@28 62" 440gn beman carbons with tigersharks

Titan recurve 60" 43@28 465gn beman carbons with treesharks on the front

68" bamboo/oasage 43@27 420gn GT carbons with intercepters on the front

Blue Ridge Longbow shooting POC arrows for the first deer. Then to my Hoyt Pro Medalist Hunter recurve using XX75's. I like the fact that the Hoyt is almost 40 years old.


JDS

62" 45# TD LB by Harold Couch, Chundoo arrows, and five old bear razorheads(they were my dad's), and five new to me magnus II'2 that are 145, I think. They all fly great.
I will be in the trees for a while, and when I can  try still hunting through the heavy oaks and thick pines. Also have a few nice spots picked out for ground blinds.

My deer/hog set up for this season is a 66" 21st Century 21st Edge with Bocote and carbon limbs and a Bocote riser. I'll be shooting around 46# with 500 grain 2016 Classic's and a Magnus up front. My quiver is a Cat quiver IV.

I`ll be using my homemade longbow 64" and 52 at 27" with cx carbons with 100 grain inserts and Muzzy phantoms or 125 grain muzzy 3-blades.RC

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Black widow PTF 50 at 26 beman 500mfx 100 grain inserts 505gr Still sorting out my broadheads 125 stingers or woodsmans...ED

Black Widow PLGA 64" 50#@28" 29" Carbon Express with Woodsman broadhead weighted to 630 grains GN strap on adjustable quiver
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I'm with RC almost,I be usin my homemade hybrid,64",52@28",ce arras with Zwickey deltas and 42 grn adapters,530grn total
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black widow ma11 56@28 2018 with 150 snuffer

Old Shrew 54" 53#@26"
65-70# ASH 27"BOP w/160grn snuffers 3-5.5" nana's
60-65# ASH 27"BOP w/160grn Snuffers 4-5.5" nana's

64" Black Widow PMA II Greybark
63" WARF (samick limbs).
62" homemade ILF riser (samick limbs).

Carbon Express or Beman arrows, with Snuffers...

All are around 49 to 53 lbs at 30" draw.

Thanks,
Marc

62" 65 @27" Acadian Woods 3 pc. Treestick (Cooter)
28" 2018 190 gr. Ribbies

56" 59# Morrison Cheyenne with 560 gr. cedars tipped w/160 gr. STOS

54" 56# JK Traditions Kanati with 600 gr. lamintaed birch tipped w/125 gr. Eclipse

The first one here is a TriState Jaguar, 52#, 60".   Cedar arrows with 160 grain Ace Standard.

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And...Bear Custom Kodiak, 56" A riser, 47#.  It will shoot the same cedar arrows, or 2016 aluminums with Bear Razorheads.

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I'm planning on using my homemade TD Longbow "El Cheapo" that I made on a build along here...albeit with the rebuilt riser.  Pretty sure I'll be using woodies to hunt with for the first time, about 560 grain total weight with Magnus or Ribtek 2 blade.  Getting about 165 fps at about 50lbs at my drawlength.  2 weeks!  Steve

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I will be shooting my RER Arroya 54#s at my draw and Heitage 150s cut to 29.5"s and 175 grains up front. 125 grain Snuffers and a 50 grain brass insert. 3 LW 5" Shields a cap wrap with green nocks. They weight 502 grains all done up! I will be hunting from one of 66 stands and a few ground blinds as well. I hope to do a bit of still hunting up north( A"Dacks)this year as well. Shawn

I got a brand new JK Traditions Kanati. 56" 48#@28". Custom cedar arrows. 125gr. Ace heads. Jim

Plan on my widow PGA recurve, 60@27 560 gr tapered cedars, with Zwickey delta 4 bld, and a cat quiver..

Bow: Pitlsey Predator 62# @28".

Arrows: 11/32 Sitka Spruce tipped with Magnus 135 grain 2 blade.

soon for me will be oe of bill griffens longbows.......64" set #55lbs at 28"

40# selfbow , 5/16 wood arrows, 125 gr. Eclipes

62" Tomohawk Desert Fox, 53#@28", shoot 27" with 7" braceheight. CX Heritage 150's at 29 1/2" with 260 gr. up front, wensel Woodmans.  Total arrow wgt. 660 gr., using 3gr/inch wgt tubes.

Brackenbury Quest,62",62#@29"
Blacktail Elite VL,60",62#@28"
Griffin longbow, 60",62#@28"

Forgewood arrows with Simmons and Hunters heads,total arrow weight 800gr.Out of the curves.

AD Trad Heavies with Simmons heads out of the Griffin.

Danny

Hello Steve! Don't believe Mikey....he'll be shooting the "Bull" more than his new Griffin!

As usual, my whitetail setup is Mikutal Longbow and Groves Spitfire. When the urge hits me, I'll take out my Kempf Stealth. 2117 Dougherty Naturals, Swagged with 125 gr Zwickey Eskimos, 160 Gr Snuffers, 145 Shulz Hunter Heads and 125 Pearson Deadheads.

Also those hot pink and Char feathers on that Flo Pink crown dip....ya gotta love it!! Right Mikey!!!  :wavey:    ;)

Hay Joe,
I love it.
There are some great rigs here.
Steve

62" 50#@29" Zipper extreme with recurve and longbow limbs.
60" 52#@29" RER t/d recurve.
64" 53#@29 Treadway Black Forest Longbow.
Along with a couple selfbows in between.

All the glass bows shoot the same easton epic 500's great tipped with 125gr snuffers of razor sharks.
The selfbows with be shooting 55/60 cedars with magnus 125gr journeymans.

64" ACS-CX 45# @ 28"
66" ACS-CX 41# @ 28"
64" Turkey Creek 45# @ 28"

CE Heritage 150 w/125gr Stinger
Beman MFX Classic 500 w/125gr Stinger

Today, those are my first three.

1964 Bear Kodiak 55#
Wooden arrows
Bear Razorheads

62" 50#@28 Bob Lee Hunter
Easton Axis 500s with 100 grain brass inserts tipped with 125 Grain Muzzy Phantoms.

Pronghorn TD Longbow, 55#, 64"
2018's
4-fletch, 5" feathers
Woodsman heads

Habu VyperKahn, 62", 47 @ 28", 2115 xx75's with glue in 5 degree tapers and 125 wensels. Using a Habu 4 arrow bow quiver with a piggy backer added to carry a flu-flu with an Ace Hex Blunt. Jim.

First deer kill will be with my Shrew Samarai with 560 grain Carbonwoods and Magnus heads. Second will be with Ancient Spirits Thunderhawk SLM and 680 grain Carbonwoods with Zephyr sasquatch heads. Third will be with Abbot Longbow tith the same set up as the AS.
4th will be with the samarai. 5th will be with Sovereign Ballistik TD recurve with the Samarai arrows. 5th will be with a Remington shotgun. 6th will be with a TSC smokepole.

Morrison Dakota, 57#@27". Aluminum shafts with Razorcaps and Snuffers.

Type I Bear "B" riser modified by Bowdoc, White tip #1 limbs 70#@29 and 2317 Eastons with green razorheads 635grn.                  Grant

62" Crow Creek Blackfeather, 51# @ 28. I pull it 30". 4560 Carbon Express Terminators, 125 grain Muzzy Phantom, Thunderhorn 4 arrow quiver,

The first bow I'll carry to the woods will be my Cook's Mountain MultiCam recurve, 60", 49#@28".

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I'll be shooting 50-55 cedar arrows, 29" BOP with 125 gr Magnus up front.  The arrows weigh around 480 gr and the MultiCam delivers them with accuracy and authority.  I've added a set of sticshooter's gorgeous antler bolts to the bow.  They look really sharp on the bow.  Frank is quite the artisan.

Bill

Bow, arras, knife and stuff.

I will be using the same set up as last year , 62" Ancient Spirits Mt. Ash longbow ,30" xx75 2018s , with ...what else ...Bear 145gr Razor heads >>>---->

Mine will be 56" Super Shrew Deluxe, 43# @ 25".

5/16 cedar shaft with Zwickey 2 blade.  I got her dialed in and she is easy to draw when my 54 yr old joints are cold and stiff.

62" Horne Takedown Ridgerunner recurve 55# @ 28".
Gold tip arrows with 145 gr snuffers with 100 gr steel bh adapters.

I'll be using my Morrison Cheyenne's
58" 59# @ 28"
My new one should be here after next week
58" 62# @ 28"
Easton Axis 400's tipped with a Wensel Woodsman w/ a 125 gr. steel insert.

Here is my setup. Earl Hoyt jr Sky Eagle,#55, chundo shafts from Troy Breedling,w/ Zwickey delta broadheads. Should shoot through anything I connect with. The others are for fun and backup bow, a couple are my kids'.
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Good luck

Mike

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Bear Montana - 56@27
Zipper T/D - 55@28
Beman ICS Venture 400 - 30" (5 GPI Tubes) - 578 Grn.
Magnus Snuffer 125 / Magnus II

I know for sure I will see the season through with my Super Shrew Li'l Favorite. It shoots cedars, aluminums, and carbons equally, and I know I will change shafts. I will be sticking with my big wide Magnus I heads though, as heavy as I can make them.


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Bob Lee Signature from Raw Hide - with new limbs, 55lb at 28inches; 60in AMO.  Easton Aluminum arrows with 2blade Stinger BHs.

 :bigsmyl:    :bigsmyl:

I'll start the season with my Super Shrew Deluxe, "Black Pearl". 56"49#@26" shooting cedar arrows with Zwickey Deltas.

From there, I'll have to pick and choose between my Cari-bow Peregrine, Navajo Caddo, SS Gold, or maybe my Liberty Chief Elite if it is here in time. Or maybe....LOL!

Cheers,
Donavan

PS. I'd post pics, but Photobucket won't let me in.

There are some beautiful Bows here.

So many Bows such little time!LOL!!!
Steve  :biglaugh:

Although I haven't yet determined this year's primary bow, I'm leaning heavily toward my 50#@28" CM Hunter 56 "Little Mo", with 29.5" XX78 2213's and 125 grain Magnus 2 blades.  For sure it will get the nod for treestand, groundblind, and waterhole blind hunts...

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The other candidates are my 58" 57#@28" CM Hunter I, an expected-any-day 60" 53#@28" CM Hunter II, or my 60" 55#@29" Kota Prairie Swift.  With these bows I'll use 30" 2413's with 125 grain Satellite Mag 125's...

Kota Kill-Um recurve
53# @ 26"  cedar arrows with 125gr BH
3 Days left till opener!!!

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My primary will be my Crow Creek 60" Blackfeather 50# @27".  Backup will be a 66" Robertson Mystical 59# @27".

morrision cougar 56" 54#@28
easton axis shafts,with 150grn razorcaps.

I'll be shooting the two bows in my sig(see below). CX Heritage 150's from the ChekMate and Beman mfx Classic 500's from the Horne. Muzzy Phantom 125's on each.

Don't know which one I'll take first, but both will be going hunting.

Mark

I'll have two going out with me this year and my arrows are the 55-70 Patriot Carbons tipped with 190 gr Grizzly El grande and 210 grain Silver Flames.

Brackenbury Quest 59"@28
Black Swan Take Down 57#@28

WIll be floating for moose and caribou very soon, should be a very fun year   :)  

DQ

Bear Grizzly 50#@28" with Eason Legacy 2016's topped with 125g Razorcaps.

I also have a few ceder arrows I'm playing around with.    I may switch to those at some point.

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Black Widow PGA Easton 2114's Abowyer broadheads
And no I do not shoot real deer with flu flus'slol


               Brent

62" Mikuta longbow 53# @ 28"

12 Joe Skipp "custom" cedar arrows 55# - 60#

6 "old green" Bear Razorheads & 6 125gr. steel blunts

My old back quiver   :archer:

60" Takedown 41# @ 28" Artic Fox, Boa Quiver

Acme Cedars with 130 STOS, Total weight 480 grains.

saluki longbow , 62 inches and 55@28 with beman mfx classics and muzzy phantom 220 gr heads :0)

56" 53@28 RER Vortex
56" 51@28 Ridgerunner Timberghost
Both shooting Easton Excel 500s and 145 grain Snuffers.

Here is mine:

56" Treadway, 48lbs all boo limbs... Super Quiet..

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60" Rivers Edge Recurve 55#'s @ 28". I will use both Easton 2018 Legacy's and Carbon Express 4560's along with 125 grain Razorcaps and 125 grain four blade Magnus Stingers.

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Black Widow PSA III 51@28", 2018 Legacy's, Woodsman broadheads.

Treadway Longbow 51@28", cedar arrows, Woodsman broadheads.

Bill

Custom Kodiak T/D, 50# @ 28" with full length 2117 legacy shafts and Bear Razorheads.

or

Bear Kodiak 45# @ 28" with full length 2018 legacy shafts and Razorheads.

Wow! There's some real awesome rigs here.
 :bigsmyl:  
 :archer:

64" 60lbs. Ancient Spirits Cahokia longbow and tapered cedar shafts fitted with 160gr. snuffers

TTT

54" rawhide backed osage that I made myself. It pulls about 60lbs. at 28.  Arrows are douglas fir, 650grains, with 160gr STOS broadheads.  Leaving tomorrow for a 4 day deer hunt, and then next week I'll be chasing some of Georgetowns finest (bighorn ewe tag in Colorado S-32)
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59# BigRiver Recurve.   POC arrows with W/W broadheads.
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Wow, had to go back a dozen pages to find this thread,

I finally decided on my setups for the year.

I'll be taking my first Trad deer with a Ben Pearson Spectre. It is a 52", 45# @ 28". I'll be launching Easton Autumn Orange 2216's with Grizzly broadheads. It was Dad's first bow, and I can't think of a better scenario than to take my first Trad deer with it (first blood for the bow as well).

After that is accomplished I'll be retiring Dad's bow (the hand shock has destroyed my elbow) and hunting the rest of the year with my Super Kodiak. It is a 60" 41# smooth as silk '74 red striper. I'll be shooting Easton 1916's with Bear razorheads on it. A selway slide on quiver will tote the load on both of them.

Oh yeah, forgot to add, I started shooting lefty as well since the Spectre has my arm funky, and I'll be hunting the last two weeks of Maryland season with Faith.

58" 46 @ 27In  RER Arroyo with 1916 Eastons tipped with 100 Gr Magnus heads.

65# @28" Assenheimer Recurve, Gold Tips, Wensel Woodsman heads

My new Rose Oak King Panther (52# @ 28"), Gizzly Stik-Alaskans with 125 grn Silver Flame broadheads.
Burnsie

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 :D

Next month for whitetails in Michigan I am going to use my old 58" and 47# Herters takedown recurve. I recently picked up some old farbenglas arrows with ram mx broadheads. If they fly half decent I will give this set up a go.

Hey guys, this is the first time I've tried posting a pic and I'll probably mess it up. Had a new camera out this weekend and snapped this shot of my favorite setup-hope this works.   Grant (http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff82/ygrant87/Picture006.jpg)

Oops-forgot to id-60" '69 Bear TD-70#@29, Easton 2317s w/razorheads, 635 grns.

No pics of mine..
Bob Lee Hunter 56# @ 28" shooting 30" beman 400 classics with insert weights and 100 grain Magnus Snuffer SS broadheads.
May also hunt with my BL hunter 45#, shooting 300 classics and same heads.  I'll post a pic when I put meat on the ground....

53# at 28 assenheimer 2117 legacys with wensel broadheads  

I'm going to shoot my first deer w/my Black Widow 62" 45# @ 28.5" using a 29.5" 2016,tipped w/a 170 grn Ben Pearson Deadhead.Then I will use my Bob Lee 45# Bic. recurve & 47# Sig. LB.

PETE

This is my first year with trad gear. I'm going to have my SS Chameleon 50# with a 600gr CX Heritage, tipped with a single beveled modified Muzzy Phantom SS.
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This will accompany me on every hunt this year- 76@30, 31" footed axis 340's w/125 gr.3 blades or 31" CE heritage 350's w/125 3 blades...
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Fox Maverick 1 piece recurve 48@28 58 in. w/full length 29.5 in. GT 35/55 W/125 GR. WW head with 100 gr. steel adapter for 225 gr. up front, very quick and quiet.

Martin Savanna longbow 62 in.55@28 w/2115`s and 125 gr. WW w/100 gr. adapter for total arrow weight of 602 grs., this set up is dead quiet and very accurate from this bow. One of the best shooting longbows Ive ever shot period including a ton of customs.

My short close quarters bow is a Browning Cobra I 50 in. 60@28 MM string w/2215`s and 160 gr. screw in Simmons Treesharks, quietest bow Ive ever shot, quieter then most longbows.

Rick Lanham 3 pc. T/D 52@28 w/2115`s and 125 gr. 4 bld. Stingers for total arrow weight of 491 gr.This bow is smoking fast, shoots this arrow at 196 fps at 29 in. and is very quiet...Looking forward to Oct. 1st.

I've got 2 this year.
One is a 62" DAS Dalaa equipped with Winex limbs. 52#@30" (I draw 30"). I shoot a "C" Lume SRF sight and a rest and plunger. I use the either a Low or Universal Poly grip. This wears an Alpine MR-2 stabilizer.
Out of this setup I fling Victory V-Force HV 300s with 150gr. SilverFlame broadheads as well as the new Zwickey "No Mercy." I shoot Blazer Vanes with this setup which works awesome.

My other setup is a 64" DAS Elite with Winex limbs. These are 51#@30" and I put a Duracoat camo finish on the limbs. I also shoot a "C" Lume SRF and rest and plunger on this setup with a Universal Poly grip. This setup wears a Sims S-Coil stabilizer. Same arrow setup as the Dalaa flings.
Both are great bows, yet for some reason, the Dalaa is my favorite. I guess it may be because it was my first metal riser and it has a certain personality to me. There would be an empty space wanting to be filled if I didn't have both, so I'm happy. Both are absolutely awesome bows  :)

I'm using my DH Hunter 55# (slight twist in the lower limb is key because I can blame any misses on that) and Easton XX78 Super Slams (2315) with Magnus two-blade broadheads or Ace Hex Heads.

Here we are with a feral basketball that was looking at us funny.

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