Traditional shooters and hunters

[Schultzy]

How many Traditional shooters/hunters do we have around here and where ya from? As for myself I'm located in Central Minnesota just north of Litchfield. Looking forward to getting to know the Traditional folks on here!

[SouchekRidgeHunter]

I am a half time traditional hunter... I am from Onalaska Wis. I take the ol hickory stick out about 10 times a year deer hunting and about 5 times to go small game hunting with flu flu's

[PRO STAFFER]

I just bought my first recurve this spring and cant wait to kill somethin!!

[Bucksnort101]

Been shooting Traditional only for about 6 years now, still room for improvement in my shooting, (always is) but it is a fun sport. I'm up in Brooklyn Park. Shoot at the Elm Creek Park Reserve range a lot.

[Schultzy]

Been shooting Traditional only for about 6 years now, still room for improvement in my shooting, (always is) but it is a fun sport. I'm up in Brooklyn Park. Shoot at the Elm Creek Park Reserve range a lot.

Are you going to the Traditional shoot in Coon Rapids on Fathers Day weekend? Its a great shoot!!

[Bucksnort101]

Yep, There every year now since I've taken up Traditional. Great shoot, need to get out and practice more so I can beat out the guy in our group that always out score the rest of us. Of coarse he'll just say I was handicapped as he shoots a 70# recurve and my heaviest bow is only 54#'s;)

[phatkat]

traditional shooter/hunter from east central indiana

[Schultzy]

Good to see another traditional bow hunter on TMH!! It's pretty quite around here.

[Grasshopper]

I shot exclusively traditional gear for a long time and took my biggest whitetail with my trusty recurve. I put it aside when my kids were born and I got a new job; knew I wouldn't have time to practice like I need to. But that ol' recurve has been calling to me again I may have to start puttin' some arrows through it soon. I love the stick bows!

[Schultzy]

What make was your recurve Grasshopper? Get the dust off that thing and lets go hunting!!

[Grasshopper]

Funny you should ask, Schultzy! I bought a Schafer "Silvertip" recurve quite awhile ago. Then one day I was lowering it--and my backpack--out of the tree and my rope broke I watched in horror as the bow landed on the bottom limb, and the backpack on the top limb

You guessed it: twisted limb! It just delaminated! Right during the peak of the rut! I called Paul Schafer in Montana and he had me send him the bow and he made me a new set of limbs and charged me practically nothing. I was impressed by that. But (and this is no slam against him) those limbs never shot as well, and I soon found out why; one of them twisted, too.

So (making a long answer even longer!) about this time my cousin, who is a shop teacher and recurve fanatic, had started making recurves, and had many of his students making them too. So he said "let's make a new set of limbs for your bow". And we did! They shot great!

So I guess you could say I have a hybrid recurve

I would not only love to start hunting with it again, I'd like to make another bow from the bottom up. Love to join you in killing some stuff with it, but I am rusty. Better do some shooting first!

[Schultzy]

Now that's a story Grasshopper!! You had some bad luck there!! To be honest I wouldn't have to many good things to say about the guy you bought the bow from either, what a tight ass!

That's pretty dang neat though that you and your cousin made that work. I've never heard some one do what you guys did. I know guys who've fixed there self bows but never one that was made from another bowyer. Well done!!