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re: Traditional Bow Hunting
Posted on 1/13/15 at 4:58 pm to Berry McCaulkiner
Posted on 1/13/15 at 4:58 pm to Berry McCaulkiner
Welcome.....
I have a 50# Howatt Recurve with a rug rest/shelf using bare finger release. I shoot "instinctively", which means I wing it and hope I am close. A few years back I got good enough to consistently hit a 4" bulls-eye at 25 paces so I tried hunting a couple times. I did not kill a deer with it, but I intimidated the hell out of one.
I have not hunted with it in years and now only use to shoot (at) garfish off the dock at night.
Have you shot fletchless arrows to select the spine, and adjust brace height and knock position? When I was setting mine up that was supposedly the key to perfecting arrow flight. Fletch the arrows after flight is good. I went to the bowshop in pearl river.
I have a 50# Howatt Recurve with a rug rest/shelf using bare finger release. I shoot "instinctively", which means I wing it and hope I am close. A few years back I got good enough to consistently hit a 4" bulls-eye at 25 paces so I tried hunting a couple times. I did not kill a deer with it, but I intimidated the hell out of one.
I have not hunted with it in years and now only use to shoot (at) garfish off the dock at night.
Have you shot fletchless arrows to select the spine, and adjust brace height and knock position? When I was setting mine up that was supposedly the key to perfecting arrow flight. Fletch the arrows after flight is good. I went to the bowshop in pearl river.
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Posted on 1/13/15 at 5:33 pm to dat yat
I might return to it one day, I just didn't want to wound a deer just because I didn't practice enough.
A couple weeks of practice with a compound and I'm ready.
I need months of shooting with the recurve.
Mine is a #60 predator take down, which is 5 or so #'s more than I should shoot. (Probably why I don't shoot it well.)
Arrows are easton aluminum 2018's
125 grain broad heads. Magnus I think.
I also have a #50 browning wasp from the 60's or 70's, but it doesn't seem to have good power with the arrows I've tried.
A couple weeks of practice with a compound and I'm ready.
I need months of shooting with the recurve.
Mine is a #60 predator take down, which is 5 or so #'s more than I should shoot. (Probably why I don't shoot it well.)
Arrows are easton aluminum 2018's
125 grain broad heads. Magnus I think.
I also have a #50 browning wasp from the 60's or 70's, but it doesn't seem to have good power with the arrows I've tried.
Posted on 1/13/15 at 7:10 pm to dat yat
quote:
Have you shot fletchless arrows to select the spine, and adjust brace height and knock position? When I was setting mine up that was supposedly the key to perfecting arrow flight. Fletch the arrows after flight is good. I went to the bowshop in pearl river.
The gf's dad is big into and got me setup. The bow I'm shooting is actually his. He's big into it and tuned up the bow/arrows for me.
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