What would you rather be doing? Building bows or shooting/hunting with them?
I only build bows when moose season is closed!! Of course that means I spend a lot more time in the shop but I would rather be out in the woods. Bob
Thinking about building bows while Im huntng with them????
thinking about hunting when im building em...
LOL! Very good Sadie and Pearl!
hunting while thinking of building a better one
While hunting checking out every tree wondering how many bows you could get out of it.
I'm a hunter. That's why I build em. When I'm hunting I'm building though so it's close.
hunting with a bow I built. But like b.glass said, I will be looking at all the trees for candidates.
I rarely build bows during hunting season and rarely hunt during bowbuilding season. To everything, turn, turn, turn, there is a season, turn, turn, turn. (Ecclesiastes 3:1, Pete Seeger 1959)
Depends, if you're talking about being in a shop working on modern traditional during hunting season, no. It seems working outdoors under a tree or by the campfire on primitive gear would be OK. It also depends on if it was something you needed right then, say you're favorite bow got damaged and you needed to replace it the first day of hunting season. Around here I'm trying to do things already to prepare for the fall hunting season.
Amen John.
I guess I started thinking about this because it is one of the prettiest days I've had off work in a while and I'm torn between building bows and stump shooting and scouting, maybe getting a shot at a ground hog.
One of the first bows I bought was made by a guy that talked like he didn't shoot much.
Never been hunting. All I do is build one, shoot a little bit with it, and build another one. :D
I build them in the winter and early spring so hunting and building are not mutually exclusive to me. :) Jawge
I really enjoy both. I think I am better at building bows than I am at shooting them.
Most of my building gets done at night after the kids are in bed, so I can do both. Just wish I had more time for both.
Can't do either, if your staring into this screen! :laughing:
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Originally posted by frank bullitt:
Can't do either, if your staring into this screen! :clapper:
A couple of years ago I would've said hunting first and bowbuilding second. Now I'm not sure, a couple of times last year I found myself workin on bows in the shop in the middle of november when I shouldve been sittin in a stand!
What okie said:)
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Building bows while hunting while skipping class can't beat it with a stick :bigsmyl:
In the fall I rut and in the spring I strut! rest of the year I build and what ever else. I am skipping opening weekend of turkey season to go to the Tennessee Classic. I'm kinda torn over that but I have set a goal to kill a bird this year with a stone point and selfbow. If I can't do that I won't take a bird. I've took one the last 6 years on opening day so I'm kinda getting over it and need to up the ante.
Stiks
You go Stiks!! You'll be sure and let us know won't you? ;)
Hunting then building. It's got to be a VERY special bow to get built between Sept and January
I like building bows tons more than hunting. Even though it's become my job and not just a hobby, I still look forward to getting bows built. Hunting to me wasn't ever really a recreation, but a simple, economical way to get meat and I'm very accomplished at it. The time in the woods is great but I can do that without a weapon in my hand. I haven't hunted really since I got my kids back and quit paying child support.
The bowyer side of my life is still young but it has become part of the way of life I live. It's become part of who I am. I enjoy everything to do with living with nature and the bounty it provides. It's a whole process to me from the flight of the arrow to table fare to the smell of a cool september morning. It just adds another process to the whole experience for me.
Love to Shoot! Stumping, ROOOOving, as long as the Leg holds Out, Hunt when I get the Chance, and the rest is Learning to Make Bows, and making "Firewood" from Learning!! hahaha :biglaugh: :archer2:
Well I took the afternoon off and went to the woods. Killed a few rotten stumps, checked out some possible bow wood (considering a primitive made bow), tried out my duck arrow (it failed), and decided on a place to put a tripod for next deer season.
I'm a born hunter and fisherman, try to do a lot of both. the last 5 or 6 years Deer hunting has taken center stage. I just started trying to build bows, but I like to think I'm " pretty bad" at the Deer game after 36 years of it- cherish every season.
My two earthly passions: I build to hunt, and hunt to justify the build and I live to ride and ride to live.