I have posted recently in some other threads about getting back into Traditional Archery after being away for almost 20 years. I grew up shooting and hunting with recurves because that is what my dad shot and built for many years. After I started college I quit bow hunting for about a decade. I got married shortly after college and once my oldest son was old enough to start bow hunting I bought him and then eventually me a crossbow. Now that my younger son is old enough to hunt (he took his first deer with my crossbow this fall) it seemed like a good opportunity to hand my crossbow down to him and go back to my recurve.
My dad has been out of the traditional game for almost the same length of time but, he still has some gear scattered around his house so I stopped by this weekend to tune some arrows. By the end of the afternoon I not only had some arrows tuned but, I also came home with a leather quiver for my bow (the bow on the right and the first bow my dad built), the bow in the center which is a 40# bow my dad built and is an example of what his personal riser design/shape used to be, an old Bear Kodiak at 44# for my oldest son to shoot, a bow stringer, and a padded bow case. We also dug through his garage and found boxes of inserts/knocks, arrows of every spine and material, feathers, fletching jigs, feather choppers and about every other misc item you need for traditional archery. All in all it was a pretty good afternoon and just added to my excitement of getting back into Trad shooting. Funny thing is, even after finding all of that I still managed to spend $100 at 3 Rivers this morning.
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