BS: Any Archers out there?

Subject: RE: BS: Any Archers out there?
From: BTNG
Date: 14 Nov 10 - 03:20 PM

talk about slings and arrows...

Subject: RE: BS: Any Archers out there?
From: olddude
Date: 14 Nov 10 - 03:11 PM

You points are well taken Rap. If you grow up in a city , know nothing of the outdoors .. never left the pavement in your lifetime, ya can never understand hunting (for food). Where I grew up, deer season wasn't for the trophies, It was for 100+ pounds of meat that we did not have to buy !!!   And nobody I know goes around wounding anything. I never have ... Nor do I hunt anymore cause I am no longer going to eat that much deer meat ... you sure ain't going to hurt it if you aren't going to use it.   I catch a ton of fish nearly every time I go out. Kept 1 for my uncle ... the rest .. released unharmed ... I take the barbs off the flies so I don't injure the fish when I am just sport fishing. Most people I know do the same. Now as for archery, it requires a great deal of skill and practice and discipline before anyone should even think about hunting that way ... those I know have it ... freely admit some idiots do not and those should not be in the woods. But if you know nothing of what you are talking about then you shouldn't try throwing rocks ... I see that too much here.

Subject: RE: BS: Any Archers out there?
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Nov 10 - 03:00 PM

If my comments below offended vegetarians, I apologize. However, I'm fed up with this "Holier than thou" attitude a few choose to radiate. Our Guest obviously has no idea of how archery hunting works and lives in a place where the truly deadly animals were rendered extinct by his ancestors.

I do not live in such a place (nor do I hunt much anymore). But I carry a weapon when I hike into the mountains, not to kill an animal but to frighten them off if possible. Obviously our Guest has never come face-to-face in the wild with a mountain line (cougar, puma) or a bear of any sort, not to mention even a rabid raccoon or skunk or fox (rabies in endemic in the US). Yes, I do my best to prevent such encounters by making noise, etc. ("bear bells" are very effective, by the way).

I will hunt. I have nothing against ethical and legal hunting. But I am a "meat hunter", not a trophy hunter.

And I wish that this thread would now go back to archery.

Subject: RE: BS: Any Archers out there?
From: GUEST,Alan Whittle
Date: 14 Nov 10 - 02:50 PM

Steve Tilston is an archer.

Subject: RE: BS: Any Archers out there?
From: BTNG
Date: 14 Nov 10 - 02:50 PM

well of course, Noreen, after all the Americans do believe in the right to arm bears....at least I think that's how it goes......

BTNG

Subject: RE: BS: Any Archers out there?
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Nov 10 - 02:45 PM

Gee, GUEST Silas. I guess the bears and wolves were cleaned out of the UK with tranquilizer darts and transportation to another area -- perhaps France? I also assume you're a vegetarian, for as the old saying goes, "You are what you eat."

Subject: RE: BS: Any Archers out there?
From: Noreen
Date: 14 Nov 10 - 02:18 PM

(About the bear: he had a partner armed with both a 12 gauge slug gun AND a .338 backing him up.)

The BEAR did? Scary...

Subject: RE: BS: Any Archers out there?
From: GUEST,Silas
Date: 14 Nov 10 - 12:35 PM

I Would suggest that your cousin in law is a pretty sick indivdual.

Subject: RE: BS: Any Archers out there?
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Nov 10 - 11:54 AM

My cousin-in-law took a 9-foot-long Alaskan Brown Bear with a bow just this fall. From 12 yards. Yes, he took the skin but he also is going to be eating bear meat for a loooooooooong time. He also hunts (and eats) antelope over in Wyoming.

(About the bear: he had a partner armed with both a 12 gauge slug gun AND a .338 backing him up.)

I have a Bear 76er take-down recurve, 45 pound pull. I draw a 31 inch arrow, and damn it! I'm going to take up archery again! The local indoor range is only about a mile up the road -- and I'm retired now! Be good exercise for my shoulder.

Subject: RE: BS: Any Archers out there?
From: maeve
Date: 14 Nov 10 - 11:19 AM

Way out of my league. If I manage to find time and energy for a return to target archery, most likely I'd make my own from local materials.

The active bow hunters I know are responsible food hunters.

Subject: RE: BS: Any Archers out there?
From: olddude
Date: 14 Nov 10 - 11:13 AM

I saw the Hoyt ... man that is a work of art for sure ...

Subject: RE: BS: Any Archers out there?
From: Phot
Date: 14 Nov 10 - 11:07 AM

I don't do hunting either, just targets. I've seen the bow I would like to get (Hoyt Formula RX 27" riser and F3 limbs), but coming in at the thick end of £1000, and thats not including sights, arrow rest, arrows etc, its not going to be happening soon!

Wassail!! Chris

Subject: RE: BS: Any Archers out there?
From: olddude
Date: 14 Nov 10 - 10:34 AM

In the years that I use to bow hunt, I never took a deer with a bow. I could have I am sure but never had a shot that I felt was clean enough so never used it. I did however love being out that time of the year ... beautiful in the early season

Subject: RE: BS: Any Archers out there?
From: olddude
Date: 14 Nov 10 - 10:29 AM

No they hunt for the meat, I hear ya and respect your comment for sure . you are correct that there are many people who should not bow hunt . those I know are experts and don't do the wound thing.

Subject: RE: BS: Any Archers out there?
From: GUEST,Silas
Date: 14 Nov 10 - 10:08 AM

Well, olddude, I'm afraid I just can't quite get the killing for pleasure thing, and even if I did, I think I would at least use a weapon that was suitable for the purpose.

Subject: RE: BS: Any Archers out there?
From: olddude
Date: 14 Nov 10 - 10:01 AM

Loved to bow hunt but after I blew out my neck ... can't do that anymore. I toyed with the idea of a crossbow since I can legally use one but figured that wouldn't be the same. Now I just fish. I sure have seen some amazing deer taken in my lifetime. My buddie just got a 10 point whitetail that looks like a mule deer ... huge

Subject: RE: BS: Any Archers out there?
From: GUEST,Silas
Date: 14 Nov 10 - 08:19 AM

Fortunatly, bowhunting is not legal in the UK

Subject: RE: BS: Any Archers out there?
From: gnu
Date: 14 Nov 10 - 08:00 AM

Compound for me, but I was studying for hunting so it was a necessity.

Subject: RE: BS: Any Archers out there?
From: The Sandman
Date: 14 Nov 10 - 07:26 AM

we have a member called ruth archer,I dont know about her skills with the bow and arrow.

Subject: RE: BS: Any Archers out there?
From: Zen
Date: 14 Nov 10 - 07:24 AM

Yes, recurve as well. These days I prefer outdoor instinctive archery (target only... I do not hunt) rather than the Olympic style I used to do.

Subject: RE: BS: Any Archers out there?
From: maeve
Date: 14 Nov 10 - 07:12 AM

I loved archery years ago. Maybe it will become an option again.

Subject: RE: BS: Any Archers out there?
From: GUEST,kendall
Date: 14 Nov 10 - 07:01 AM

Arthritis in my left shoulder queered that do years ago.

Subject: RE: BS: Any Archers out there?
From: Leadfingers
Date: 14 Nov 10 - 06:54 AM

An Everyday Story of Toxophology ??

Subject: RE: BS: Any Archers out there?
From: gnu
Date: 14 Nov 10 - 06:32 AM

I took it up about 6 years ago, took the provincial bowhunter's course, got my hunting license endorsement, sold my kit for more than I paid for it. It is relaxing but I wouldn't hunt with a bow even if I hunted any more.

Subject: RE: BS: Any Archers out there?
From: GUEST,Silas
Date: 14 Nov 10 - 06:28 AM

Used to do Archery up to 6 yars ago when I injured my shoulder. Thinking of taking it up again though.

Subject: BS: Any Archers out there?
From: Phot
Date: 14 Nov 10 - 04:54 AM

I've recently taken up archery and wondered if there are any archers out there in Mudcat land? I shoot recurve (Tried a compound, didn't like it!), with a 30lbs pull. We have a 24/7 indoor range, all the kit you need is provided, so for the first time in 24 years in the forces I'm taking full advantage! I find it so relaxing at the end of a stressful day at work, its even lowered ny blood pressure!

Wassail!! Chris