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Modern Archery...good lord...

About $2000 dollar you could have your self a real deer killing machine. It's an old F150 with a big light bar on top. Add a front grill guard for a little extra FOC. Hit them back roads at night. You'll have your self a booner in no time. Don't have to buy a tag either. Just call dah blues and have them give you one. Unless you've had to many sodas. You could fill the freezer in no time. Best part is you can hunt year round.
 
MattMan81 said:
About $2000 dollar you could have your self a real deer killing machine. It's an old F150 with a big light bar on top. Add a front grill guard for a little extra FOC. Hit them back roads at night. You'll have your self a booner in no time. Don't have to buy a tag either. Just call dah blues and have them give you one. Unless you've had to many sodas. You could fill the freezer in no time. Best part is you can hunt year round.
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Did that one night coming home from hunting. I used a newer truck. Likely cost the same as buying all this hunting stuff.
A $2500 dollar deer. Not recommended with a newer truck

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Ontariofarmer said:
Did that one night coming home from hunting. I used a newer truck. Likely cost the same as buying all this hunting stuff.


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The Murder Wagon is aptly named. I have taken several deer "the hard way."

Last one I got was clean as a whistle. Barely caught his skull with the headlight. No body damage, just had to pop a new assembly back in. I was so busy trying not to hit the doe he was chasing I never saw him coming.

Threw him in the back of the car and kept right on driving to my duck hunting hole. Limited out and had deer and ducks to clean that afternoon after I dropped by O'Reilly's.
 
MattMan81 said:
About $2000 dollar you could have your self a real deer killing machine. It's an old F150 with a big light bar on top. Add a front grill guard for a little extra FOC. Hit them back roads at night. You'll have your self a booner in no time. Don't have to buy a tag either. Just call dah blues and have them give you one. Unless you've had to many sodas. You could fill the freezer in no time. Best part is you can hunt year round.
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Ohhh, that's probably where I went wrong. To kill my last deer I used a motorcycle. Now that I think about it, a truck probably wouldn't have hurt so bad....
Live and learn I guess.:rolleyes:
 
Allegheny Tom said:
I think it can be summed up as high tech bowhunting is all about the destination and trad bowhunting is all about the journey. But with trad, when you reach the destination, its so much more rewarding.
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It's possible some folks just have more interest in other pieces of the hunting puzzle, or have limited time/resources to devote to it. Speaking for myself, but I would assume others, the preening and self righteousness of the trad community is mostly what turns me off to the whole thing. I have stick bows, and shoot them alone. I have compound bows, and shoot them with friends drinking beer and having fun. Posts like this are largely responsible for that dichotomy.
 
kyler1945 said:
Speaking for myself, but I would assume others, the preening and self righteousness of the trad community is mostly what turns me off to the whole thing.
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This. 2 wealthy white dudes from the city met a native american who hunted with what he had to feed himself and they turned that into hunting's version of golf or polo. I have a feeling Ishi would have much sooner hunted with a crossbow than wrote a book or started a society.

Anytime somebody makes up a criteria for being a "real" anything, I'm out. Somehow I'm not a real whiskey drinker, a real beer enthusiast, or a real bowhunter. But I shoot lots of critters with arrows, and celebrate with lots of beer and whiskey. :)
 
This thread got me curious, just had to check... Good Lord!1595271808921.png
 
Nutterbuster said:
This. 2 wealthy white dudes from the city met a native american who hunted with what he had to feed himself and they turned that into hunting's version of golf or polo. I have a feeling Ishi would have much sooner hunted with a crossbow than wrote a book or started a society.

Anytime somebody makes up a criteria for being a "real" anything, I'm out. Somehow I'm not a real whiskey drinker, a real beer enthusiast, or a real bowhunter. But I shoot lots of critters with arrows, and celebrate with lots of beer and whiskey. :)
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Truth!!! Ishi always blaming his bow for missing is something we can all relate with though lol!
 
Nutterbuster said:
I was always hurt when P&Y said the english longbow was superior to native bows. Sure, for putting a bodkin through chain mail, maybe. What's not to love about a short axle to axle length and an easier draw?
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No kidding... also being able to shoot for more than a decade because you aren't drawing 100lb is nice too! lol
 
This thread is very interesting especially since I use a recurve and a compound bow from time to time.
I can see both sides the recurve is very fun to shoot and when I can connect on an animal it is very satisfying.
For me the problem is even though I love my recurve my work and home life don’t allow me to have it in my hand nearly enough to be 100% confident I can close the deal.
With a compound after many years of hunting and competition shooting I’ve developed the form needed to not need to practice everyday and carry on with my everyday life and still feel 110% confident I can make it happen when need be so I see that side to.
The good thing about this thread I agree on is for the compound guys is take a very close look at your setup. Do we really need 12” front bars 10” back bars , sights to 100 yards ,
7 arrow quivers or tiny peeps to get that group size down better than your buddies ?
I had to look at my owe setup a year or so back I had went to far my bow looked like a target setup and luckily I read another members post on here that got me back to keeping it simple again.
I no longer use a peep , stab , just a simple single pin sight, and a whisker biscuit rest and it still gets it done.
Use what ever you want but for me simple is better.







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