Whether it's deer hunting, small game or upland game season, how many different bows do you hunt with during the season? Do you make a conscious effort to hunt with a certain bow(s) in your stable a few time per year? Perhaps you rotate the order so that all your bows get autumn air on their limbs.
One: 50@28 ACS CX, wood arrows same set up for everything.
I have several that I could do that with but stick to my TallTines most of the time. I hunt on the ground in a ghillie and when backed up into a really tight spot I have a 54" Shrew Classic Carbon T/D that is hard to beat. I did hunt some with a really sharp '63 Kodiak last year since the bow was 50 y/o in 2013.
Hunters who use one bow are usually killers! :archer2:
Only hunt with one that I made. Doesn't mean I'm a killer though :dunno:
last season I alternated every weekend between my Fox High Sierra and my Wes Wallace Mentor. But this upcoming season I intend to get all them out.
I only hunt with one bow per season If Iam going to switch I switch in the spring an practice with that bow all summer.I will switch up bows during 3-D season because It is fun to shoot all kinds of bows.I just like to settle in with one bow during hunting season
2- Holm-Made River Runner and a RER Vortex, both 43# @ 28" and I draw 29", cedar arrows or 2016 Alum.
X2 on what Macbow said!
Steve
All of them. 20 maybe. I killed 4 deer (3 bucks in 3 states and a doe) and 2 coyotes last fall. 6 kills with 6 different recurves and longbows. I use all of them.
3, longbow, recurve and hybrid, just depends.
Only one at a time ;)
I tend to choose one bow for a season and sometimes an entire year...not switching out unless I get blood.
I deer hunted and hog hunted with Mohawk Sparrowhawk starting Aug2013 through Feb 2014 when I got an old boar hog with her. She is cleaned up and on wall and readying another bow for turkey season starting in two weeks. Hopefully I will be able to retire this one for a bit and pick yet another for hogs and then deer season again starting 15 August. :)
Only hunted one this season, Fedora Thee Longbow. Next season I suspect it will be my new Stewart, or possibly a Big Jim, but only one.
Tom
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ONE!
Bisch
I typically switch halfway through our early 6 week season, then use something else during our late 2 week season after Christmas.
Usually only one but this year I'm starting with a 1952 grizzly I just got and when she gets blood I may go back to my take down but I'm really starting to like the old one so I may use her all season.
I usually intend to use several, but end up grabbing my go-to thunderchild. I did kill with two different bow on my last hunt, though.
I usually use two different bows. One higher draw weight for the early season and a lighter one for December. I have four recurves and three longbows and kind of rotate them from year to year.
I have 2 bows that I use for hunting
a Zipper sxt 48# 58" and a Assenheimer
48# 60"
I stuck with one for deer this year. Then when I started hog hunting in December I switched around and killed hogs with 4 different bows and 3 types of broadheads.
Usually my Shrew CH #47..... But if I need a big mojo change I've switched to another Shrew CH without hesitation.
With the exception of turkey season I use the same bow for all big game in any given year. In turkey season I use a lighter shorter bow, what ever bow that might be that year. I like to get them all off the rack and out shooting every year just that some may not get to go hunting that year.
I grab what I want and unfortunately I always grab the wrong one-ha!
Two, one little shorty for the blind and my long bow for the rest of the time.
Four months before deer season I choose one bow and that's all I shoot until the season closes; and I try to shoot every day.
I'll also have a back-up that shoots close.
Only one bow.
And I expect to make that decision soon as it seems I may be on a Spring black bear hunt so I want to be well practiced.
2009 - 2012 Hunting Season was a Howard Hunting Gamemaster Jet.
2013 - Damon Howatt Ventura.
2014 - Think of trying a Martin Hunter or PSE Sierra Hunter Take Down this season.
One left hand longbow and one right hand longbow.
One at a time . :archer:
I use one for the whole season then switch to the other one for the next season. I rotate between these 2 robertsons that are identical each year.
I use two. The 62" recurve in early and mid season and 64" recurve when the weather gets cold. Both same poundage.
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One bow at a time, though this year I may have two bows to choose from.
Just one Maybe one day when the temps are back in the positives, and we have a couple less feet of snow, I'll get out and shoot it.
I typically hunt with one bow all year.
This year (my 5th back to curves) I will likely hunt with three different bows; Turkey, Deer (1-piece curve), and Moose (TD Curve).
I look at bows (and arrows and broadheads) as tools. While I can make 1 work all season, I have a tendency to select for conditions - i.e. a short bow in a blind, lighter draw weight in the late season cold, etc.
Generally, only one, but every once in a while, I change from 1 Hill bow to another.
I am strictly a one bow man. There is no need or desire to have more than one longbow with one set of arrows for me as it can hunt anything that I hunt well and is excellent for practice.
I do occasionally buy two pieces hoping I'll find one that shoots as well as my one piece, but in several years I've yet to find one. If/when I do, I'll sell off my one piece.
I take them all out, depending on circumstances, intended game, and if I'm honest about it, my mood.
everyone I own, hunt all year. They are all Silvertip recurves and shoot the same arrow so I can pick any one of them and just go hunt. I just got a Harrison Siberian longbow and it will be used also and it shoots the same arrow as the Silvertips.
Too many bows to stick with only one but Most have the same poundage and use the same arrows.
I start out with a 54@28 and drop to 50@28 Morrison Shawnee when the weather gets cold.
Depends on what mood I'm in, I have four recurves that are all set up. I shoot all of my bows so there are no surprises. Although lately it has been all Silvertip. Ah, so many bows and so little time! :thumbsup:
I seem to find a way to work in at least two, and sometimes three.
I use one and I'll usually have a backup in the truck because my favorites tend to be the old Bears and though I've never broken one I guess I cant be surprised if a 40 year old limb eventually gives up the ghost.
I alternate between my Kanati and my Orion, usually by the weekend, sometimes by the day. I shoot both of them the same, so either one will do the job. I don't want either one hanging around getting lonely. ;)
One, lately my Blacktail. 53# @28
I use a 1/4" socket when I am turning that size bolts, and a 3/4" socket when I am turning that size bolts. I use a saw to cut wood and sandpaper to make it smooth.
I have several bows and use them as I feel the need, for a given problem or thing I am trying to achieve, like the tools that they are.
ChuckC
Usually one bow for the season. This year I switched it out after I got a deer.
Although switching between bows can be trouble, I try and keep the speed of all the bows I shoot within 10fps or so, that way point on distance is similar/same. Just adjust arrow weight a little, although most of mine are 43-48# so it's not much difference.
Three bows...I alternate between my RH Kempf longbow and LH Fedora recurve. Towards the end of the season, I break out the Groves Spitfire.
Like Pointer, I always carry a backup bow with me no matter where I'm hunting. You just never know...
Deer hunting. One, Howard Hill. Rabbit hunting, mostly Howard Hill but play with my 57 Kodiak on occasion.
Usually just one, but if the weather turns really bad I do have a different bow that I use.
I hunt all year long I have five bows that I hunt with . Close in poundage and all shoot the same arrows. Some times take two one for the morning and one for the afternoon. Bows are like fishing rods, you need(want)one for each situation. :rolleyes:
I usually hunt the whole season with the same bow. :archer2:
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Only have my Hill and have only killed snakes and a squirrel so far, but I may just treat myself to a custom this year....decisions decisions.
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Martin Savannah
50 pounds
"If I can hit it right, it will kill it"
Like Felix wrote, all but one of my bows is very close in draw weight to the others. I can shoot the same arrow out of most of them.
However, I have more confidence in a couple.
I have killed with 6 different bows in one season. Pretty much all the bows I owned that year.
I have 2 Kanati's. I alternate them.
Have to agree with Cyclic River and Brock.