When do you out grow a bow?

[Boom Stick]

Since I've joined TradGang, and been checking out the Sponsor's sites, I've come up with quite a big "wish list" of bows that I'd love to have.  Hell,  I'd have a room full of bows if I could.

The thing is..  I'm just getting back into trad after a 10 year lay off.  Starting from scratch,  I'll be shooting my trusty 50# '71 Damon Howatt, that I'm so proud of.

By "starting from scratch",  I mean I have the bow and a string.  I'm hoping the nockpoint is good,  but I need a rest, arrows,  quiver (range/hunting/both?), and all the other fun hunting gear that one needs.

Other than just  wanting  another bow, if I get get good enough to start "Robin Hooding" arrows or just destroying nocks again, is that the time to get a new bow and get used to a new one?

At 37 years old I'm starting to think it would be good to grow down in poundage rather than up.  My hunting goal is just to pass through deer.

Thanks guys,

Boom Stick

[ozy clint]

ummm.... if i had a bow that i shot 'robin hoods' with i don't think i'd want another one. LOL

[d. ward]

Shooting really good and shooting hoods,I'am with Ozy Clint.I would not ever out grow that bow.Fact is I would never ever shoot any other bow.bowdoc

[**DONOTDELETE**]

At 37 , you won't be "growing out" of one....but you will see one that you can't live without!

[Teacher_of_the_Arcane]

Mr. Stick,

I bought a Bear Kodiak NIB in 1972 and used it almost exclusively until three years ago when it got damaged in a moving truck.  It's a 50#  @ 28" bow.  Seems to me you're well equipped in the bow department.

As to a quiver, a Brother Tradganger has a nice one.......
http://tradgang.com/noncgi/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=065613

[longbowman]

Let's see.  My "newest" bow is a 2000 Custom longbow that a good friend made me.  My go to bow in between that is a 1980 Bear T.D.  As for being 37 and getting ready to go "down" in weight?  Your more than 20 yeras from that.  I'm sure at some age you might have to but I'm 55 and there may come a day that I'll need to use my litlle 70# target bow for hunting too!

Most of the people on here will tell you that they probably never out grew a bow but rather they felt the uncontrollable need to buy another one!

[reddogge]

Like they say "Beware of the man with one gun ( or bow)."

They can usually shoot it very well.

[Kingstaken]

Typically around my birthday, Christmas time or any other time my love ones are in the giving mood..    
That aside my favorite bows are all 15 years or older...

[George D. Stout]

I'm 62 and 7/8ths and shooting 53#, but I'm not shootin Robin Hoods or busting all of my nocks. Son....you don't sell a bow that is doing that, you sleep with it.      

You get other bows for a much more complicated reason; you get them because you want to...not because you need to.

[del]

I'd make another one!  

[Boom Stick]

Originally posted by Teacher_of_the_Arcane:
Mr. Stick,

I bought a Bear Kodiak NIB in 1972 and used it almost exclusively until three years ago when it got damaged in a moving truck.  It's a 50#  @ 28" bow.  Seems to me you're well equipped in the bow department.

As to a quiver, a Brother Tradganger has a nice one.......
 http://tradgang.com/noncgi/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=065613  

You're not kidding about that quiver.  That's better than nice.  I've almost pressed the "buy" button on the Alaskian's Chief / 3 Rivers "HH" quiver a couple times already.  I like the one in the link better!  Thanks.

[beachbowhunter]

Danny Rowan is a full grown man who grows out of at least one bow a month!  

[vermonster13]

Yeah them Rowan brothers are incorrigible.    

[Paul WA]

I agree with George, my new pronghorn is busting nocks and it aint going nowhere...PR

[Sam McMichael]

I don't know about outgrowing a bow, but any time you can slip it past the wife without getting caught, you probably need a new bow.

[Rooselk]

Originally posted by Sam McMichael:
I don't know about outgrowing a bow, but any time you can slip it past the wife without getting caught, you probably need a new bow.

That's the philosophy I live by. What's more, nobody had to teach me that. I guess that's just something the Good Lord planted in the DNA of us men.

 

[Boom Stick]

It's all I can do to figure out how to get a new "$300"  Acadian snake skinned 3 piece recurve, or a "$295" Holm-made, recurve with a bow bolt system,  past the wife!  

I'm just looking for excuses more than anything when it comes down to it.  

I'm thinking my draw is too long for a 58" bow,  and a T/D sure seems convenient!

Unfortunatly,  she knows me too well.

I don't buy a lot,  but when I do,  it's always the "good stuff".