In the fall of last year I blew up a borrowed bow (sorry Brent), and decided I needed to really try this traditional thing.
Surfing this forum somehow got me hooked up with Chad (recurves.com), and through his coaching, I purchased my first traditional bow.
Being a wheel bow hunter for the last 12 years, there was quite a level of frustration trying to achieve the expectations I had for myself, but I stuck with it.
Lots of good advice from people throughout this forum, generosity of equipment to try from others, reading and re-reading articles in TBM on shooting form, and a fair amount of back yard shooting finally began to come together.
Last weekend another TG member (bbassi) and I road tripped to scout some property in Ohio and I was introduced to stumping. Somehow, the gods were smiling and no arrows were lost or broken, and a decent number of stumps met their demise.
Heading out to the back yard last night to get a few rounds of shooting in, I thought how lucky I have been to experience the fun of shooting traditional equipment. I have taken out my compound once this year, and despite liking to shoot anything, the fun wasn't there.
Anyhow, things were just going great. Here is the last round of 6 arrows (similar to the previous three rounds) :
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Thanks guys! You have really helped and made this fun!!!! :thumbsup:
BobW
Very good new to hear!
Now your hooked!
OUTSTANDING!!!!!!!!!! :archer:
Very cool .
Very Nice, your tale is about as good as it gets. Best of luck this season!! Shawn
Very cool, yup your hooked alright, feels good doesn't it?