Who are the archers?

	Crazy Stick wrote:
	I am an archer, I shoot longbow. I believe sights are cheating (I duck from the bottles flying at my head) Havnt hunted anything but 3d targets. been in some small time competitions, mostly at rendezvous and I always do pretty well. get this, I actually won a muzzle loading rifle at an archery competition . (It was on a prize blanket along with other things i coulda chose)

Thats great C.S & great scoop on picking the muzzle loader. Cool

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i have a fred bear compund bow its has sights a green one a yellow one and a red one and it even hase a level! its right handed 55 pounds draw weght i use cabelas arrows with broudheads for practis easton arrows but i would love a nice longbow from 3 rivers archery and make my own arrows

I have the 3 Rivers 2007 cataloge, im eyeing up 2 Bows, a recurve & a longbow to buy. Dont know which one yet ? Confused

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Broke out the bow the other day. I wasn't as rusty as I thought I would be. Surprised

I need a new target, though. Embarassed

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I want to get a recurve!

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	Survivor Kid 909 wrote:
	I want to get a recurve!

Good choice SK909. What do you want to do ? Target shoot, Hunt, Both.
There are many choices. I myself like traditional Bows, Longbow/Recurve.

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Drummer Dave wrote:

	Survivor Kid 909 wrote:
	I want to get a recurve!

Good choice SK909. What do you want to do ? Target shoot, Hunt, Both.
There are many choices. I myself like traditional Bows, Longbow/Recurve.

I want to Target and small game. Also at vous shoot.

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-Idleness brings want
To work today is to eat tomorrow
It is best to prepare for the days of necessity

-Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder's eye on the Last Day.

Survivor Kid 909 wrote:

Drummer Dave wrote:

	Survivor Kid 909 wrote:
	I want to get a recurve!

Good choice SK909. What do you want to do ? Target shoot, Hunt, Both.
There are many choices. I myself like traditional Bows, Longbow/Recurve.

I want to Target and small game. Also at vous shoot.

> I would suggest a 45lb pull, thats legal to hunt small game & not so much you can't have fun target shooting. Cool

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Drummer Dave wrote:

Survivor Kid 909 wrote:

Drummer Dave wrote:

	Survivor Kid 909 wrote:
	I want to get a recurve!

Good choice SK909. What do you want to do ? Target shoot, Hunt, Both.
There are many choices. I myself like traditional Bows, Longbow/Recurve.

I want to Target and small game. Also at vous shoot.

> I would suggest a 45lb pull, thats legal to hunt small game & not so much you can't have fun target shooting. Cool

Ya, I borrowed a 40 at the vous' to use and did ok. I pulled it WAY back lol.

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-Idleness brings want
To work today is to eat tomorrow
It is best to prepare for the days of necessity

-Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder's eye on the Last Day.

Drummer Dave wrote:

Survivor Kid 909 wrote:

Drummer Dave wrote:

	Survivor Kid 909 wrote:
	I want to get a recurve!

Good choice SK909. What do you want to do ? Target shoot, Hunt, Both.
There are many choices. I myself like traditional Bows, Longbow/Recurve.

I want to Target and small game. Also at vous shoot.

> I would suggest a 45lb pull, thats legal to hunt small game & not so much you can't have fun target shooting. Cool

I sold my compound many years ago, to try to raise more tuition cash for college. I used it in a league and had so much fun with it... I miss those days... and I gave up my hunting days pretty much for good... but now it seems like everything's gone the hunting way with recurves, and traditional target compounds don't even exist now.

Again, I miss those early days of bow evolution, but... power to the huntsmen/women, who use them! Very Happy

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Drummer Dave wrote:

Here is my { Ben Pearson Recurve Bow } i just got my hands on. These are now collector items, as they stopped making recurve bows over 20 years ago. I took it to my favorite place, Borman Archery. Ron Borman has been shooting recurve bows over 50 years, he is in his late 70'z. I told him how i got my hands on this Bow & he was floored at how little i paid.
I went to a place called, Value Village, it's a second hand store, i was looking for some cover-all's to work on my brothers Dump Truck. I was walking out & seen the top of a bow sticking out of a box. I went over & pulled it out, & i was like Shocked

i looked it over it's in good condition, & the price !! LOL, $ 7.99 !.
So i told Ron this story & he was wow, you are a lucky guy Dave. He would sell this Bow to a collector for approx
$ 300. to $ 400

. This Bow sold in 1958 for $ 14.95. lol. So im very happy with my find. This is a all Fibre Glass Bow, which Ben Pearson only made from 1958 to 1964. The reason i know that this one is a 1958 model is that all the Fibre Glass bows built were only named Strato Jet, & for 1 year Ben Pearson made a Strato Jet Target model. Cool

So i bought a new Bow string for $ 10.00 & im good to go. Now i got 12 wooden arrows ordered with real feathers for fletching to keep it all as it used to be many years ago. Not this aluminum shaft & plastic fletching stuff. I like the old school type Bow shooting. Smile

You can actually still buy recurve bows, unless you mean from that company, in which case I would have absolutly no idea Laughing

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^ Many companys sell Recurves still. They are my choice. But Ben Pearson does not sell recurve Bows anymore.
Just compounds. Cool

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I love my compound , my recurve and my longbow haven't really hunted for about 5 yrs now but I am working on a selfbow of Red Oak and will when finished have to take a nice buck with it just because I love venison and I have always been a dedicated deer hunter since age 15 I only missed 2 seasons and took a nice buck each year but those 2 and usually a doe also we have management permits in Mn allows you to take bonus deer .

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