I am just curious how many out there hunt with more than 1 bow during the same season vs picking 1 bow and sticking with it all season. For those that do hunt with more than 1 bow, do you stick with 1 then switch after a certain time or go back and forth between your bows? I have more than 1 bow I would like to hunt with but I'm afraid of not being dialed in during the switch. I'm having picking 1 and sticking with it!!
I go back and forth, but usually only own 2 or 3 at a time. I shoot them all often enough that after a few shots I'm "dialed in" with that particular bow. For me each bow seems to have its own unique "feel".
Switching up has never caused me any problems.
I will be using my Bob Lee 54# TD recurve for an elk hunt, leaving in two weeks. When I get back I will be using my home made hickory self bow for the first doe that crosses my path. After that I will finish the season with my Bob Lee 45# recurve. Usually just use the Bob Lees with arrows weighing 10 grain per bow weight.
I think I hunted with 4 different bows last hunting season, for a variety of reasons. I imagine that I will hunt with at least a couple different ones this season. They all need some attention, lol.
Yes, pdk25, sometimes I feel like they are my children. Even though I have a favorite right now, a different one might be my favorite in a week and I feel they all need some attention.
LOL! Like 20 of them.
Usually commit to one bow, plus a backup each season. Make a kill, then switch to the backup. So on and so fourth. This is subject to change at a moments notice. This year I'll be using my Caribow "Tuktu EX" TD recurve and my Bear "Kodiac" TD recurve. Call me an equal opportunity owner. :campfire:
I tend to pick a favorite but will usually take another hear and there.
I am stuck on my TallTines though. Will hunt mostly with my 60" recurve, but will most certainly give my stickflinger some attention as well.
I've hunted and killed stuff with different bows on the same day....so yes.
One year I killed 5 animals with 5 different bows.
I quite often walk in with my arm guard on my left arm and then find the need to change it to my right arm, when I find that just right spot to sit for the hunt. Other times it goes the other way.
I don't do it very often, but I do change around from time to time.
I do most seasons. Just get up and decide which bow I want to use on any given day. All tuned to point exactly the same.
Change bows????? I just got a new Bear T/D that I've waited 40 years for!!! Gonna need at least 20 to get her broken in!
This year, I have a recurve and carbons set up and a longbow with woodies. I plan to bounce back and forth throughout the season.
Yes...Yes...Yes
May have two different bows in the blind with me.
Possibly a longbow and a recurve.
Possibly a longbow and selfbow.
Possibly a recurve and selfbow
Could possibly have other future combinations
yes,but I shoot all my bows all year long.
yes,but I shoot all my bows all year long.
Yes, but I set all my bows up where they all shoot the same in relation to the site window. That way I always have the same look when looking thru the bow. I use an elevated rest on the larger windows and shoot off the shelf on those with a smaller window.
Yep. Longbows, hybrids and recurves. The're pretty close in poundage and I generally shoot about the same gpp arrows. Might hunt with one in the morning and another in the afternoon.
Yes..
At the beginning of the season I am stronger and the weather is warmer. I can most comfortably draw my heavier bows. As the season goes on I tend to shift to other bows because some I like (or don't like ) taking out in the rain, and then I just need a lighter draw weight the colder and later in the season that it gets
Yes, I made 4 bows over the last few months and will hunt with them all over the next 4 1/2 months of our deer season. Starts on Friday!!
One bow, Liberty Contender, one set of Surewood Shafts Doug fir arrows. Great combo, tuned and ready.
I switch sometimes, usually not. If I do I take a whole Sunday afternoon to shoot the new bow.
I switch between 5 or 6 bows during season...no reason other than I like them all and want to use them. It may make my shooting suffer, but I've never dedicated to only 1 bow so I don't have a valid comparison.
Nope. I like the familiarity that my old friend of my longbow has. It's like an extension of my body and I really don't have to think about how to shoot it, it just seemingly shoots itself. I see no reason to leave perfection at home.
Yeah I switch all the time and 90% of the time it depends on the hunting situations or where I am hunting. I do have a go to Bow that is my primary bow but I love having a choice.
Yes, blind hunting(antelope) I shoot an A handle Bear t/d and treestand hunting shoot a B handle Bear t/d. Late season I put on lighter limbs usually 50# or so.
Yes. Especially if the weather gets cooler; then I switch to a lighter bow.
Yup, but shoot 4 or 5 different bows throughout the year anyway.
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Nope I guess I'm abnormal. Shoot the same bow year around all the time. Practice, 3D small game big game. Same bow. I guess I should add that's a bow I've made, one of many, that suits me to the Tee so no need to change.
Sometimes I do...generally 2 bows that shoot similarly.
Yup got most of my bows shooting near the same and if not a couple volleys of arrows and I'm tuned into the next bow
do two of the same bow count as one?
I have been known to grab which ever one calls to me when I get to the bow racks !
This year I will not be hunting with my white glassed bow on the first day of bow season, which is the last day of the youth season. I had a skinny little girl shoot at a deer with an inline at a six pointer that I called to with in 15 yards of me on an open field. They saw me earlier and figured that from only 200 to 300 yards away that if had not shot yet that I was not there anymore or was not going to shoot. She wounded the little buck, but they did not find it. The other exception will be during the early muzzle season, last year while I was scanning with my binos, I caught a guy aiming his gun at me. I do not like it when people point their guns at me. He said that he saw white and was using his scope to decide if I was a buck. I may have to go to a head net and leave the white bow at home that week, if they need to point their guns at anything white or moving. What made me frustrated with him, I was wearing a blaze orange hat. So he was pointing his gun at a deer with blaze orange? He was checking me out with his rifle scope with a loaded gun. I will take a brown bow out that week.
I am sure that I saw a law against using only one bow, seriously. I am trying to narrow down the number of bows that I am going to use this year. I am currently at 4 but I am trying to get to 5, well, 6, I mean 1 or 2, okay, maybe 3 or 4.
No. I chose one bow after a season and that becomes my primary bow (with a back-up).
I do ALL my practice with the chosen bow and that is what I hunt with.
After the season I usually choose another bow and the cycle repeats.
Back-up...?? What's a back-up???
Has anyone ever broken a bow during hunting season? I accidentally cut my string with a broadhead once, but that was a quick fix! I did see a guy cut the continuous string on his compound, tying to get his broadhead into that whisker rest thing they put on them. WOW!!!!! That was EXCIITING!!! He was done for the season...
I switch from time to time. Kind of an impulsive thing. I do the same thing through out the year, so I'm used to shooting them.
Yes Woodchucker....I had a bow blow up while elk hunting in CO....while it was leaning against a tent...glad I had a back up.
WOW Terry, that stinks!!!!! Maybe I should look into this back-up thing? I've hunted with 60's & 70's Bear recurves for the last 15yrs or so, and never had any issues? But heck, I guess there's always a first time!!?
I have two or three at the cabin that I use. Most of the time it is my self bow as I use stone.
Bows are 68 Kodiak Hunter, Steve Turray (Baraga) longbow or my Osage self bow.
I have two camps I leave a bow at each one with arrows.Both are about one hour from home so one less thing to worry about when ready to go to the camp.
That's a GREAT idea!!! Leave one at the cabin! Hmmm...
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Back-up...?? What's a back-up???
Has anyone ever broken a bow during hunting season? I accidentally cut my string with a broadhead once, but that was a quick fix! I did see a guy cut the continuous string on his compound, tying to get his broadhead into that whisker rest thing they put on them. WOW!!!!! That was EXCIITING!!! He was done for the season...
I did. Top limb on an early 70's KMag
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