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Post by mason0366 on Sept 23, 2009 18:50:40 GMT -6
Went for a little while this morning. Did see any deer but took a shoot at a turkey. Arrow hit a limb and off it went 15 dollars out in the woods some where.
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Post by caretaker on Sept 23, 2009 19:00:46 GMT -6
you don`t have tracking chips in your arrows? ?
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Post by ibugly on Sept 23, 2009 19:07:47 GMT -6
Now I knows I is old. Only arrows I shot were wooden shafts home made ones passed down to me. I think the smell of burning feathers is embedded in me from watching my dad and about a half dozen friends make a bunch of them up. I doubt anybody makes their own anymore.
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Post by sksfordman on Sept 23, 2009 21:46:02 GMT -6
Now I knows I is old. Only arrows I shot were wooden shafts home made ones passed down to me. I think the smell of burning feathers is embedded in me from watching my dad and about a half dozen friends make a bunch of them up. I doubt anybody makes their own anymore. There's a lot of purist Bow hunters out thereon the internet, and they build their own longbows, and arrow shafts, and then fletch them!!
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Post by ibugly on Sept 23, 2009 22:33:53 GMT -6
This was likely more of a matter of what was readily available back then. Compounds were few and far between and bow hunting wasn't that popular yet. One bad thing about wooden shafts was you had to check them for cracks. A cracked one could explode on you. I bow hunted in the mid 70's to 1980 but my dad started bow hunting in the 1950's. There was a group in the Knoxville area called Smoky Mountain Archers that as I understand it is still around today. He wasn't a founding member but joined shortly after it was started and stayed till in the late 1960's. I think a guy from Claiborne County actually started it.They would order all the necessities and make their own arrows. I remember my dads flecthing tools and the burner. They used a long tube filled with paint to paint them. Those arrows lasted me my bow hunting time. We went on both archery and gun hunts though. They did a lot of range shooting too so it was a lot cheaper than buying them. Most of his friends bow hunted too a few went on both though.
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Post by sksfordman on Sept 24, 2009 11:21:40 GMT -6
I hope you hunt with David, John. I hope you'll try to get back out and hunt, and you and David both need to check out Crossbows. I know David is looking into it. I'll have one for sale by next years season, that I'll be letting go for a very reasonable price, if my daughter in law don't claim it. I'm trying to get her started using my crossbow, she wants to hunt, and she's going to hunt with a 243 this fall.
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Post by ibugly on Sept 24, 2009 12:16:07 GMT -6
I Likely won't this season maybe next. I got to see how I do with the fishing. I'll likely use what I did before on gun hunt my old Stevens Single barrel with a slug. Too bad bows don't last 35 years LOL I think my old recurve is still around somewhere but I'd be real leery of stringing it up. 1980 was the last time I strung it up.
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Post by sksfordman on Sept 24, 2009 12:52:47 GMT -6
If it hasn't been strung up, it should be OK. The deal breaker is can you pull it back to a full draw and hold it for a shot John. Randy
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Post by ibugly on Sept 24, 2009 13:09:57 GMT -6
I'm not sure. My right arm has been giving me a fit but not in the muscle area it would take to draw a bow. Man I can about feel the sting popping me around the wrist now from a bad release LOL. No matter where I put the guard it didn't cover where I got popped. I might see if it's still at my parents. Really I need to get me a target range set up. No place where I can shoot is level up here. I could use the TVA powerline R.O.W. I suppose. I'd have to move the goats though if they were in the lot.
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Post by sksfordman on Sept 24, 2009 16:47:40 GMT -6
We had goats for yers here. IMHO goats would make a great warm up target for deer!! lol JK..
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Post by ibugly on Sept 24, 2009 17:12:02 GMT -6
We had goats for yers here. IMHO goats would make a great warm up target for deer!! lol JK.. That's why I got all white ones
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Post by caretaker on Sept 24, 2009 18:17:55 GMT -6
John, I don`t care if we harvest a deer or not. It`s the hunt that matters.
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Post by ibugly on Sept 24, 2009 18:28:34 GMT -6
John, I don`t care if we harvest a deer or not. It`s the hunt that matters. That's why I always went. Never hit one and it never mattered one way or the other to me. They was amazed at how much ground I'd cover in half a day though. I'd see more deer just not as many shot possibilities.
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Post by ibugly on Sept 24, 2009 20:19:11 GMT -6
Anybody ever deer hunt in Pickett State Forest? It's definitely a change in scenery. Nice place to walk of a high bluff going in the woods before daylight.
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