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The older I get

Started by LongStick64, February 23, 2011, 11:25:00 AM

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LongStick64

The older I get the simpler I want my life to be. I guess that is what drew me to hunt with a traditional bow. So I take it to my equipment, I just traded my BW PSAX for 3 Great Northern bows, a Ghost, a Critter Gitter and a Bushbow. Simple, rules in my book and when you have a simple bow that just performs like a Great Northern, I love it. I swear my Super Ghost is the fastest bow I have ever shot, and it's so damn quiet. Now if I could just get the deer to simply stand still...........
Primitive Bowhunting.....the experience of a lifetime

straitera

Time sure speeds up. Hope the body doesn't slow down too much. KISS works.
Buddy Bell

Trad is 60% mental & about 40% mental.

dad

I'm starting to fell like you. I want archery to be simpler and less complicated with my tackle. Thats why one piece bows they are lighter in the hand.

SEMO_HUNTER

I'm probably not considered one of the "old guys" or at least I hope not at age 42, but I am also leaning more toward the simpler the better philosophy myself.
As a matter of fact, I just put my wheelie up for sale on a couple different websites. I thought that was something I would never do, but I felt like it was time. It hardly got any range time and only made it into the field about 3 times this year.
I just get so much more pleasure out of the simplicity of a stick and string, no gadgets, nothing to come loose, just my bow and an arrow.

It's liberating to simplify things.   :thumbsup:
~Varitas Vos Liberabit~ John 8:32

tradshooter

I am 57 now and have a lot of broken parts on my frame some from Uncle Sam and some from life's choices. I feel them more as I go to the hills, but I still go and will, until nothing works. Keeping it simple works for me and Traditional Archery has always been like coming home for me. I look forward to every Fall to chase the elk and deer and still find the relaxation of stumping or shooting here at home. I've got my favorite go to stick also (55# @28 Saxon, American traditions Longbow), it's therapy and one of life's simple joys. Let me know if you figure out how to keep the deer still! Best to ya!

Roy Steele

I trive to live by the KISS metod. In all walks of life. I've always been old school.
DEAD IS DEAD NO MATTER HOW FAST YOUR ARROW GETS THERE
20 YEARS LEARNING 20 YEARS DOING  20 YEARS TEACHING
 CROOKETARROW

David Mitchell

Longstick64, guess you'll have to change your signature line now, huh?   ;)  Well, I agree totally with you.
The years accumulate on old friendships like tree rings, during which time a kind of unspoken care and loyalty accrue between men.

GO Rogers

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. TGMM ♥

snag

Simplicity allows me to concentrate on what is most important to me. In archery it is bowhunting with stick and string, being able to make my own gear, and the accomplishment of putting wild game on my families plates with what I have made and what the good Lord has provided. It gives me peace.
Isaiah 49:2...he made me a polished arrow and concealed me in his quiver.

Elk whisperer

The older I get the better I was

joe skipp

The more I hate bowhunting in real cold weather..

  :rolleyes:    :eek:
"Neal...is this heaven?" "No Piute but we are dam close". Top of the Mtn in Medicine Bow Nat Forest.

bowkevin

Simplicity is a beautiful thing!
Wandering through the woods with stick and string

longbowman

It's funny how we all begin to think alike as time goes on!  I'm 57 and after years of mainly shooting recurves I too went to the longbow.  I'm making my own knives now and hunting from the ground.  I've been blessed with great health and haven't broken too much doing stupid things so I still shoot moderate weight bows in the 75-80# range but enjoy every second of it all.  I still feel the excitement of the hunt and the clean kill of an animal but I can go home after letting something walk & still feel great about being able to this thing I enjoy so much.
    I look back to when I started all of this and how the treestand hadn't come out yet, no compounds and "anybody" who took a deer displayed it on top of his car for all to see and be awe struck with.  What a life!  I like it being that simple.

LongStick64

Just shot all three I traded for and man I just love those sweet simple lines. As far as changing my sig, nope, I love that Zipper, and it's the tuned down Hunter version so it's still simple.
Primitive Bowhunting.....the experience of a lifetime

dan d

QuoteOriginally posted by longbowman:
It's funny how we all begin to think alike as time goes on! .
I'm 48 and feel the same way, don't get me wrong, I enjoy this iPad to be able to check out this forum, but each year I find myself enjoying the peace & quiet of no cell phones, no iPad or other complicated equipment. Life seems to be goin 100 mph, but when your out hunting it is so peaceful and quiet. I sold my wheelie bow last year and also got rid of my treestands. I look forward to trying to outsmart em eye to eye.
Dan
Compton member & Michigan Traditional Bowhunter member.

Larry247

Keeping it simple, is keeping it fun! There's no school like old school.  :archer:
A trophy is in the eye of the beholder.

Javi

52 years of archery, the past 15 with a compound. but recently I realized I missed the feel of wood and string so I simplified my archery and returned to the longbow...
Mike "Javi" Cooper
TBoT Member


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