you know your a traditional bowhunter if..........

[saumensch]

...when you think about getting youre bow more silent instead of faster..

[reddogge]

....your bow is whisper quiet WITHOUT silencers.

[longbowjim]

When your bow is hanging on your wall like a work of art.

[Covey]

When you laugh when you miss and have a since of remorse and deep respect when you hit!! Jason

[celticknot]

When you find morals, ethics, tradition, friendship, and character more important than how big or how many.
All my respect to those who "CHOOSE" to not take the easy route.

[GingivitisKahn]

Originally posted by GMMAT:
When your wife owns a Mackinaw wool thong.

ROFL!

[razorsharptokill]

If sharp is not sharp unless its "Scary" sharp.

[northern fisher]

For me being TRAD is
Hoping and wishing,everyday,to become half the bowhunter that Paul Schafer was and just being happy with what god gives me.
Thinking it's cool Barry Wensel once Emailed me back.
Walking right buy my high priced bows and 1 compound and picking up my old Damon Howatt Hunter that always hits where I'm looking (even if it's 10" under the deer)
Being happy for every sunrise I get to see even if I didn't see a deer
Being happy with every moonrise even though I did not see a bear.
It's knowing when the shoots too far,and that is each and everyones own choice
We all chose to hunt this way for one reason and that is so we can be happy with ourselves at the end of the day and know we did it buy our own rules
That's how you know when your Trad?

[Onions]

You know your Trad......
>When all your bows have been named, and you talk about them like there "people".
>When you can't take a walk without carrying your bow with you.
>When you build a pink bow for your two year old daughter
When you have a bow on the front seat of your car/truck year round
I love this post

chris <><

[Brian Krebs]

When your wife owns a Mackinaw wool thong.                                    

[Tdog]

Just being abel to have the string touch your cheek. To be abel to hold one of Gods gifts in your hands and understand your part in the circle. To know your place in this world. Let they others judge themselfs. We know we are right where we should be. Just being abel to have the string touch your cheek..

[Brian Krebs]

When you use broken arrow shafts too:

Stir paint with
Scratch your back with
Swat flies with
To hold up snow goose decoys with
as kindling for fires
....

[sweeney3]

If you have to remove the broadhead from your wood arrows before repairing the fletching because the cats will cut themselves trying to play with the arrow while it's in the fletching jig.

[Sticks2117]

If you laugh at missing the same deer 3 times in less than 5 minutes

[Buckeye Trad Hunter]

When you can go out for a full days hunt and not see a thing and still consider it a sucess because you enjoyed yourself.

When you can stalk to within 20 yds of a p&y buck across 100yds of field then send the arrow through his antlers and still be happy because you learned something.

[D. Devall]

when you FISH with your hunting bow.
when you realize how special it is to have a bow given to you by your best friend (thanx ian) that has been used by a good hunter for decades and has taken deer before it reached your hands.

when that bow is an old pearson hunter recurve and you wouldnt trade for anything.

[Ian johnson]

when the biggest fish you have gotten was taken by bow not rod and reel

[Ian johnson]

oh and your welcome for the bow trey

[trad_bowhunter1965]

you would rather read a post on Trad Gang about stump shooting then read about some guy's 60 yard kill shot on Archery#$!!# com.Blake

[D. Devall]

if its 11:15 at night and you get board and go shoot empty "5 hour energy" bottles off the top of a hotpocket box.