Who hunts their "pretty" bows?

[Killdeer]

I got a Morrison Cheyenne in the mail one Christmas Eve.



Come February I was at Shawn's place dragging it through the briars in search of bunnies.
I'm not grinding into the bed of a mountain stream. I just hunt with it and try to minimize the bumps and bruises. Scratches happen. Bumps happen. It's beautiful, but it's a bow and belongs in the field. I feel sorry for museum pieces that never get to breathe free air and hear the sighing of leaves in a fall drizzle.

Killdeer

[Builder]

I fully agree with the "Don't buy it if you can't hunt with it", however I bought a new Blacktail back in the 90's that was an all Myrtl bow. It was so breathtaking that I never took it in the woods because I didn't want to scratch it along with I already had several bows to hunt with. I eventually sold it because I never used it, and felt guilty.
Bottom line is I did exactly what I said I would not do.
Norm would tell me he builds hunting bows everytime I would talk to him and to take it out hunting, just couldn't bring myself to do it.

[LongBow'erman]

Like leatherneck, If I won't hunt with it I won't buy it. It's a tool, now go on out there and give it some character.

[the longbowkid]

My dad bought a 4,000$ AYA side by side custom fitted shotgun, in 16 gau., a few years ago.  t is a beutiful boxlock with straight grip, and english walnut stock.  he hunts in woodcock covers all year round with that gun.
my policy is you can never really appreciate it if you don't use it. any scratches are marks of love  :D

[woodchucker]

BEAUTIFULY said Killy!!!!!    

[glass76]

I hunt with my Blacktail I have now, I plan on hunting with my new Blacktail when it arrives. My hunting bows go to the woods with me.

[Wapiti Chaser]

I drag my decked out Morrison everywhere including the bunny hunt. I had it refinished once and now it is dinged up again and has some bare spots from the finish rubbing off and it's going to stay that way. It's made to hunt !!

[FerretWYO]

I hunt all my bows. Thats why I have them.

[DEATHMASTER]

Hunt with it.
A person can put a new finish on it if it gets to scratched up. That would make it pretty again but it would not have the memory marks to ponder.

Tim
DEATHMASTER

[bicster]

I used limbskins on my Widow this year with great success. They will reduce glare, and noise if you bump an arrow or stick onto them. They also keep your bow from getting scratched up. They are definitly worth buying.

[xtrema312]

Beauty is in the eye of the bow holder.

If I get something too nice to hunt it is because it is used, and I only got it to see if I like it so I can get one I will hunt.  For me that is more like too light, shiny, and flashy to blend in.  Other than that I like nice looking bows.  Now I do believe in too expensive to hunt.  I am cheap and on a low bow budget.

[Winterhawk1960]

I have a "weakness" for pretty things, especially beautiful wood combinations. Regardless of what they look like visually, if I shoot them well.........they are going to be doing what they were crafted to do. I enjoy hunting, and as Killdeer said, you don't have to rake the leaves with it. I believe that a bow is made to be shot, and hunted with. If I'm not able to do either with it....well.....I have no reason to keep it.

Winterhawk1960

[GingivitisKahn]

I think my Hill Halfbreed is pretty and you better believe it hunts and stumps and does all those neat-o things a bow is supposed to do.

  :D  

[Steve O]

Yep. Now that I have a bunch, if I'm going on a very rough mountain hunt, I;ll pick one of the ones that are beat up, but all of them hunt.  With that said, I am getting a new TallTines shortly that will be camo dipped and I an going to beat that baby to death!

[Shawn Leonard]

Hunt with it!! I have had and still have some awful pretty bows and drag them thru some nasty stuff. They hold up real well, at my bunny hunt I have seen bows worth anywhere from $50 to $1300 dollars thrown to the ground or tossed out of a wild rose bush all in the name of killing  bunnies. If ya shoot it well, it deserves to be hunted as it has a spirit all its own. Shawn

[LongbowGuy83]

It's like a brand new truck. It's not truly yours til you put some  scratches and dings on her. That's what they're made for.

[bowhuter82]

If I own it it goes to the woods

[Gary Logsdon]

"Pretty bows" deserve to travel to pretty places:^)

[imhntn]

I don't have any that I do not hunt with.  I don't get them to look at.

[Sixby]

If its not a pretty bow I make it pretty , then I hunt with it. Case in point. I got a Sentman that shot wonderfully but was just plumb ugly. I put overlays and antler tips and a great finish on it and took it hunting. I just cannot stand ugly bows. LOL