as I sat here tonight with my 10 yr old son who is getting into to archery, albeit compound, nonetheless it's still a great pass time for him, we have been watching bow hunting shows upon his request. every single one has revolved around inches .. that's kind of hard to explain to my son, but I think he understands the jist of it. anyway, not one time on this site since I have been here has the topic of inches and scores come up. somebody shoots a doe or a spike and proudly post the pics. I love that about you guys. it is such a fresh breath of air for once. just good ol deer hunting the way it was meant to be.
Well said, and I agree!
Yep. Seen 4 page long threads for guys shooting stumps and mushrooms. Haha, a unique community for sure and I'm proud to be a part of it!
as am I. and yes I love those stump shooting threads with pics. even see some from Europe on here. that is awesome.
Any animal taken, regardless of size or type is a trophy in my eyes. I believe most here would say the same.
Yeah, we're a bit different. You will occasionally see a post with a big buck and sometimes somebody will list a score, but it'll usually just be kind of a side note and almost never the main focus. And I have to post pictures from stump shooting because that's about all I can kill. Been huntin almost full trad (with just a couple rifle hunts scattered around) for two years and still looking for my first kill. But even without a kill, I've had hundreds of successful hunts. :thumbsup:
you got that right. I cringe on the shows when they say "here comes a shooter". I wonder where they hunt. How come so many deer are out in broad day light. And why they always shoot the deer after the last commercial.
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A great site with a bunch of whole hearted stick bow shooters! Any shot that hits the mark is a trophy for most and most misses are usually a good ribbing from a friend. It's great to hear that your son is enjoying archery embrace it and have fun.
Steve
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I like to get a "big one" as much as the next guy, but that is not what I do it for. I get just as excited about a raghorn or doe. The challenge of what we do, and how we do it, makes it not necessary to bag the biggest critter in the woods to be totally successful!!!
Bisch
Us trad guys talk inches all the time. Arrow lengths, draw lengths, brace heights....
I think its because of the challenge of hunting with trad equipment. To me, I don't see enough deer to worry about shooting inches. my largest buck with trad equipment would have scored around 12". haha. But it was one of the best trophies of my life. Maybe some day I will get a chance at a giant, but my trophy wont be judged by his rack.
The only deer with a bow so far was made of foam.
But I have taken some trophy ground squirrels.
I like what Bisch Said.
I'm just glad I finally took the plunge.
I love a big gorgeous rack.
But what I really see in my mind's eye when I'm at full draw with a deer 10 yards away, that doesn't know I'm there...?
Roast....backstrap medallions...stew..smoked jalapeno and cheese sausage....
QuoteOriginally posted by bowhuntingrn:
Any animal taken, regardless of size or type is a trophy in my eyes. I believe most here would say the same.
^^^Absolutely^^^
Yep, with most of our group, its more a bout fun than braggin' rights. However, if we do get a whole bunch of inches on a given hunt, we can spin a yarn as good as anybody else.
QuoteOriginally posted by Bisch:
I like to get a "big one" as much as the next guy, but that is not what I do it for. I get just as excited about a raghorn or doe. The challenge of what we do, and how we do it, makes it not necessary to bag the biggest critter in the woods to be totally successful!!!
Bisch
For most of us, myself included, I feel that WHAT we shoot isn't really important, it is HOW we do it that matters to us. Many of today's horn porn hunters just can't seem to relate to that. Watch bow ninja hunter on youtube. He shoots a compound, but other than that he would fit here very well.
I might post a score on the game I shoot, but I don't know the Pope and Young method for scoring dandelions.
The hunting shows, really, are just a half hour set of advertisements with a few kill shots thrown in to make it interresting to most guys. Now a company like Matthews is not going to pay that much money just to show some guy shooting a doe or a spike with their hot new bow. They need a 180 incher to show what you could get if you bought their bow. See? So its gotta be about inches or their would be no money in it. I wish there were more shows like The old Fred Bear footage used to be.
I agree with the OP (who said it first) and Bisch and all the others who said its not about inches.
I honestly believe that any hunter who doesn't get excited about seeing a big buck is either jaded from shooting too many of them or lying through his teeth, but I still find the hunt challenging enough and exciting enough just being out in the woods trying to close a deal with a deer, that I get really excited regardless of the presence or absence or size of the rack.
don't recall who said it but it was something g about any time we hit the mark its a trophy. that is so true. I get so happy when I put 3 arrows in a row in the lungs are my rhinehart!
It's more about the experience of the hunt than harvesting a animal and traditional equipment does that for me.
I would not have it any other way.
I loooooooooove looking at big antlers, you could pretty well say Im antler obsessed , but I like eating critters even better than looking at their antlers.
I also get a thrill out of putting a plan together and getting some game. I won't kill a deer that I won't be thrilled with and Ive taken some just out of their spots.
Also with my work and family schedule, a deer in the garage beats two in the bush.
I think most of the fine people on here hunt Meat not Horns....