I really don't like anything else. HaHa.

I hate looking for the right arrow combo,making the arrows, sharpening the broadheads, tuning a new bow, making quivers....I just want to shoot and hunt and hang out with my hunting buddies. HaHa.

Just wondering if anyone else is like that? I wish I had a bottemless quiver that I could just pull ready made arrows out.

Nope not me, I luv everything about this lifestyle! The more I put into it, the more I get out of it    

I am on the other end of the spectrum. I love all the steps that lead up to, and the shooting and hunting.  Hard work makes the experience all the sweeter for me.  I love making arrows, quivers, etc...  But then again I am a bit of a do it myself freak.  The only thing I don't like is sharpening my single bevel broadheads, fortunately KME helps me with that part.

I am by nature NOT a tinkerer. I can't fix squat. My way of fixing plumbing or house issues is to work an extra shift and pay for it....

Now this sport is the exact opposite! I love messing with arrows, building archery related stuff. Heck 3 years ago I didn't know what a feather chopper was. Now I'm teaching my kids how to make fletching out of the turkies we kill and wingbone yelpers for other folks. It is a lifestyle thing and other than my family life nothing gives me more joy than this sport of ours    Oh yea, the shooting and hunting is the nuts too  

I love it all. I made one bow and won't be making another because I don't have the space or equiptment for it. Otherwise I try to make all my stuff. I make and now sell a lot of leather goods for archery and really love being creative and making a product that could easily last hundreds of years. Frank

I wish I could have an attitude more like you guys. I actually only shoot one arrow at a time because I lose less that way...and I don't want to make more!   :D

No foreplay?

 

Wham Bam!

Now that you put it THAT way Killdeer, I do feel lie I be missing something-in this sport!  

Killdeer, you keep me laughing everytime I read your posts! You should have been a comedian.  Ben

i like foreplay too

Around here the fore play is better than the hunting!!!      

Nope, I love the fact that I'm always learning something new. Don't matter what I think I know, someone always proves there is more to learn!  

I'm with Killdeer, but my wife doesn't like hunting or foreplay. Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha
Seriously, its all about the preparation for one chance/shot.

I must say that the Hunting is my favorite part of the equation.  And I enjoy shooting a lot.  The arrow building, tuning, and broadhead sharpening are part of the process, and they help fill in the gaps when I'm not DOING the shooting and hunting. I can also fletch with the size, shape and color of feathers that I want. Oh, yeah, I love reading and learning about the history of bowhunting.  But I'm a hunter;  if it weren't for the HUNTING, I probably wouldn't do any of the other stuff.  And I'm not particularly crazy about camping for camping's sake.

I also tie flies for fishing, but I wouldn't turn a single hackle if I wasn't going to cast it to a fish.....

   

Yeah, me. The day I bare shaft tune an arrow you can wheel me into the nursing home. Touch up your broadheads, get close, pick a spot... and spend the rest of the time enjoying nature and all its mysteries. Cheers, Don

Well I have to admit that I haven't hunted in a couple of years(just haven't had time) but still enjoy shooting. Same in that I do enjoy all types of fishing(fresh and saltwater) but have spent the last 7yrs competing in longcasting tournaments more than fishing. I to build my own arrows and bowstrings aswell as my own rods for tournaments and fishing.

Juan, I'm the same, I love shooting a bow but I'm not interested in the rest of it. I hate making arrows, simply not interested in doing it and more than happy to pay somebody else (who knows what they are doing) to do it for me.

I didn't even bother with the tuning, I just get an identical bow as my buddy and use the same arrows as him  :D

to me this is more than a sport its a way of life and theres not a part of it i dont want to experience and master . i becomes so personal when you make your own equiptment right now i make arrows next is strings than bows i cant wait to make my own bows.