Self Bows Quest and back to Glass Bows - What Say You?

[Walt Francis]

Never looked back.  I still make and shoot glass bows, but seldom, if ever hunt with them.  In reality, there isn't much difference in hunting with a selfbow and a glass bow.  

Guess what, if you build your selfbow right, you can shoot it with good form, hit full draw, hold, then expand to conclusion.  Simply put, you can hold it at full draw for more then a nano second, enabling you actually hit something over twenty yards (I have shot at two critters beyond 20 yards in the past twenty years, both were fatal shoots).  It's really that simple.  It's more of a matter of personal ability and ethics than the bows ability to perform.

Ultimately, it is simple, you can either put your arrow, into the critter (where it should be) with your bow at the "moment of truth", or you don't.  It don't make much difference if the bow is wood, glass, or or some new age carbon.  Can you put the arrow where it needs to be.

[T Folts]

I've built both and killed deer with both. I hunt glass bows 90+% of the time now.