I don't consider myself a great shot, just a good shot.
I've killed squirrels in the trees, quail on the rise and walking deer. Groundhogs on the run to their hole.
I have no qualms about shooting a walking elk.
I shoot a recurve instinctively.
My elk arrows are 650 grains and travel about 180...
I would skip staying in Durango in favor of Pagosa Springs
Lots to see and do between pagosa and Montrose.
If you are squimish avoid the million dollar highway. Not for the faint of heart, although northbound isn't that bad.
Ice lakes would be a great hike. So would sneffles.
You could do a...
I think we should ban the internet and the media. No audience, no mass killings by any weapon, be it gun, car, fertilizer or poison.
There would be no point to the killing without the fame.
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Dr Ed Ashby has completed full studies on arrow mechanics and penetration.
He even killed an elephant with a longbow.
You cannot go wrong following his already proven physics.
Broadhead Science and Dr Ed Ashby
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I'm 56 with a similar history, but lighter 235. Former body builder, raced motorcycles etc.
I go annually after elk with a longbow.
Reduce the weight as much as possible, do as much cardio as you can and go! Plan on spending 48 hours before the hunt to acclimatize to altitude.
DIY will be a...
Warbonnet blackbird xlc hammock, 0 degree underquilt
15 degree top quilt and maccat tarp.
6 lbs of comfort in under 20 liters of space.
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Excellent observations and I agree.
But regardless of equipment, trad or otherwise you better to be able to put an arrow where it matters most on the first shot.
No excuses for trad guys here either, however instinctive shooting does not lend itself to tight groups of many arrows.
Gap shooters...
In 1961, 35 members started the pope and young club as a means to get the states to take archery hunting seriously.
Technology has given numbers to that voice so that now bowhunting is acceptable in all 50 states.
Today our voice is loud and our dollars sustain people and habitat.
The more...
Hunting is such an individual sport, there really is no wrong way, just different ways.
A successful hunt can be defined in many ways. Not all of them end with backstraps on the grill.
But those are generally the best!
"I have always tempered my killing with respect for the game pursued. I...
Thanks for the response!
In case it didn't pop up. Mine is a Samsung s8+.
I find myself using your app a lot!
I have a phone issue that I am hoping to resolve with this phone in that during tracking it will drop the GPS at times leaving my tracking looking like straight lines.
I know it's a...
Agreed, as I said, we were using satellites for location while carrying a recurve.
I carried manufactured cow call while wearing high performance synthetic fabrics that stretch and breath.
My broad heads were steel and screwed into carbon arrows.
The question that I asked was rhetorical...
Thanks, I like it.
Not that many years ago a bow was good to 50 yds and a black powder gun good to 100 yds. It had stayed that way for several hundred years.
Now a compound bow set up and tuned properly can be lethal out to 100 yds and a black powder gun with any work at all is lethal out to...
I have been carrying the same bow for 29 years.
It kills every year without tape...or sights, or an arrow rest.
I wish you all the best in your endeavors with your chosen bow and all the paraphernalia that goes with it.
I'll stay with the simplicity of my old recurve, a hair popping fixed 2...