Please only one post each: to share a photo showing each Bowsite HUNTER, ARCHERY GEAR, and the GAME animal taken. Any legal game is acceptable taken with archery tackle. Doesn't even have to be a recent picture.
If you do not want to play along, perfectly fine and understandable. No need to explain why.
I'll go first - my 2014 buck, first I had taken with this bowtech experience bow.
Bowsniper, good idea with this thread, I like it better than someone demanding proof that I'm a bow hunter. I have met a bunch of guys from Bowsite and hunted with some of them, good people.
This is a photo of the bow near completion. It is made of Osage.
I made my own string, and even tied my own Flemish Knots.
That first fall fo 2010, I killed a small doe, and the next year I killed a Tall Tined Spike with it.
The photo of the spike is on Mike Finneys's "Are You Real" thread.
If ya ever have a chance to build your own Primitive Bow, I would recommend it. It was a real hoot, working with real Bowyers, and spending a week with a dozen Toxophilites all interested in the same thing.
It truly is a small world, too. I was telling the class about my Step-son, who was with 2nd Recon 2 MarDiv, and fought the Battle of Fallujah. One Student was really interested, and asked me his name.
That student got back to me the next day, and it turns out that HIS SON was also with 2nd Recon, and fought along side my own Step-son. ( Later, the two Combat Vets got together again )
What a hoot, and what a small small world ( Walt Disney is indeed correct )
Since the thread is limited to one photo, this is all you get.
I also highly recommend the book, "The Witchery of Archery", by Maurice Thompson.
I have been an serious Archer for 47 years ( since the age of 10 )
Nice photos posted by all.
Thanks for starting this thread, Bowsniper.
Biggest honor of my life asked to serve on the first BOD of Benefit 4 Kids. Smith tagged along to all the board meetings and was the official "kids" representative. Sixteen years later, am more convinced than ever that family and archery is conducive to helping kids grow into productive adult citizens.
Thanks to Pat and the CF for all the support over the years.
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