Opportunity Strikes

[RKMBrown]

Wes Martin droptine recurve td, limb blew up. Hill inexpensive   hickery bow shattered. Flash flood carries away pse kingfisher.

Normally one might be depressed after loosing all ones bows.  Alas I figure it was a sign that I needed to start from scratch.

I enjoyed shooting the hill, the droptine was smooth, fast and  quiet, the king was an indestructible fishing bow.

Sigh where to start? Auction? Classifieds? Trading post? Retail? Must choose at least one bow quick, the hogs are moving in on my position :-)

[lpcjon2]

Any Hill, its versatile and worst case you can beat a pig to death with it!

[RKMBrown]

At this point I'm  throwing arrows at the hogs by hand. I'll keep one arrow as a spear.  I'd love to find a decent hill bow. But I've been too cheap. Every time I see one I want I get sticker shock trying to figure out how to justify the cost to the wife.

[RKMBrown]

To make things even worse I have a new hunting dog chomping at the bit for some meat. He's a Lab/Springer mix with a great nose.

[Ragnarok Forge]

You lost three bows.  The price is already justified buy one and tell the wife you had to have it to hunt.  A good woman will understand or at least tolerate the price on a new bow.

[Rufus 25]

What weight are you looking for?  I'm sure there are people here willing to help you out with a bow.

[RKMBrown]

Boy there's the million dollar question.  50-55# is my sweet spot +-5# works too, 45# and my youngest boy would practice with it and it would give me an excuse to put off working on increasing my weight, 60# and up and my older boy would enjoy it more than me and thus I'd have a good reason to get on with my annual new years resolution of working up to 60-70# bows.  My draw is RH to 27" I have medium sized hands.

[Canyon]

You can always learn to make your own bow!!

[Mudd]

I'm certainly up for letting you borrow one of mine if you'd like. Just e-mail me and I'll see if we can't match you up to something. I even own a couple of recurves, if that's the way you swing.

I'm glad to see you're already thinking ahead and not letting your losses get you down.

God bless,Mudd

[RKMBrown]

Originally posted by Canyon:
You can always learn to make your own bow!!

Interesting idea. I have a thickness planer,  a jointer, a table saw, a router/table, a band saw, chop saw, and plenty of hand tools.  

Hmm...

[RKMBrown]

Originally posted by Mudd:
I'm certainly up for letting you borrow one of mine if you'd like. Just e-mail me and I'll see if we can't match you up to something. I even own a couple of recurves, if that's the way you swing.

I'm glad to see you're already thinking ahead and not letting your losses get you down.

God bless,Mudd

Thanks for the offer, Mudd. But I'm good, just  considering all the options :-) Build, Buy, recurve, longbow, short longbow, hybrid longbow, grips, shelf, ...

I'm counting my blessings that my older boy was not drowned in the flash flood. He was camping out with a bunch of college friends.  I wasn't there.  They woke up to a roar.  My boy walks out of the tent sees the water had risen 30', all the way up to their tent over night. Their carry in boat was gone, one of their trucks had water up to the windows. They found the boat a day later down stream.

As to which way I swing... I was reading this book...  In it Hill said "I am not skilled enough to shoot a short recurve bow accurately."  That struck a cord.  I want a hunting bow that will shoot what I aim at under hunting conditions.  I'd like to find or build a decent American longbow.

[kbetts]

There's a nice Abbott l/b in the classifieds for a great price.

[RKMBrown]

63# is 8 heavy over what I was looking for.. but the price is right, time to man up.  Sent PM, pulling the trigger.  Excitement builds :-)  Dusting off weights.