Trad hunters.

[StalkingWolf]

My hats off to ya'll. I have always been a finger shooter with a compound and now I have gone to barebow compound. I am starting to get the bug for a recurve. I don't think I could handle anything over 40 lbs though. Taking a deer with the recurve is a huge accomplishment IMO.

 

[rem270]

 

[lung-buster]

Only killed one doe with a old Bear Grizzly 55# Cedar shaft with a snuffer head. Im hooked now. Sold off my compound. It is a rush to take an animal with a stick and string.

 

[eddie c]

My hats off to ya'll. I have always been a finger shooter with a compound and now I have gone to barebow compound. I am starting to get the bug for a recurve. I don't think I could handle anything over 40 lbs though. Taking a deer with the recurve is a huge accomplishment IMO.

starting off with a lower poundage is a good idea for most beginners. keep in mind most trad shooters dont draw as far back as they do with a compound so pick out your bow accordingly. on the average a bow will lose or gain 3-4 lbs per every inch short or longer you draw from the poundage marking on the bow.

 

[Locksley]

My hats off to ya'll. I have always been a finger shooter with a compound and now I have gone to barebow compound. I am starting to get the bug for a recurve. I don't think I could handle anything over 40 lbs though. Taking a deer with the recurve is a huge accomplishment IMO.

starting off with a lower poundage is a good idea for most beginners. keep in mind most trad shooters dont draw as far back as they do with a compound so pick out your bow accordingly. on the average a bow will lose or gain 3-4 lbs per every inch short or longer you draw from the poundage marking on the bow.

Good info and so true . Most hunters used a 45 pound bow back before compounds.

 

[Locksley]

My hats off to ya'll. I have always been a finger shooter with a compound and now I have gone to barebow compound. I am starting to get the bug for a recurve. I don't think I could handle anything over 40 lbs though. Taking a deer with the recurve is a huge accomplishment IMO.

starting off with a lower poundage is a good idea for most beginners. keep in mind most trad shooters dont draw as far back as they do with a compound so pick out your bow accordingly. on the average a bow will lose or gain 3-4 lbs per every inch short or longer you draw from the poundage marking on the bow.

Good info and so true . Most hunters used a 45 pound bow back before compounds.

Originally Posted By: holstonangler
So are you pioneer guys still using arrow heads in archery season? haha(kidding of coarse)


Some actually still use hand-knapped flint arrowheads with wooden arrows and real turkey feather fletching because it has always been so. Some use Bear razor--heads with wooden arrows and real turkey feather fletching because it has always been so. We mean traditional bow hunters here . traditional bows go back thousands of years before the Egyptians .

 

[FOX FIRE]

I would love to have some of the old school Bear razor heads, that screw in tho not the glue on type, I used those things for a long time, liked them because they could be resharpen to a razor edge, loved that carbon steel.

I hunt with a modern broad head & have been debate'n on try a expandalbe (sorry guys), dont think I'll be use'n a piece of flint anytime soon.

Seems I read something sevral years back pertaining to use'n flint to make a type of scalpel blade to be used for surgery, they said even the best metal blade had microscopic burs on it & the stone could be manufactured so thin & sharp it helped with the healing process, if I remember they siad they could get a stone edge down to the thickness of half a micron. (how ever thin that is)

Something to ponder on I guess.

 

[eddie c]

I read about ceramic blades being made for surgery but havent heard about flint.