Trad. coues for 2019

[AZBIG10]

 

No tags for us this year! I’m thinking of cashing in my compound bow for some traditional gear. Any one one this forum running around with a stick and string? I’m looking at August to have  my first. Stick and string coues buck.

 

what broad heads

what arrows

45lb?

[dustin25]

I’ve been running around with a recurve for the first time this year. Whole different animal, that’s for sure. I have a 55 lb southwest archery spyder xl, and am shooting  31” 300 spine gold tips and 175 gr woodsmans. Seems to shoot nice to me but I don’t have any higher end bows to compare to

[oz31p]

I hunted last year with an old Ben Pearson but the limb cracked. So I had gene from g&b in Peoria make me a long bow. 52@28” . 500 spine black eagle vintage 100g brass insert. 150g rms cutthroat. 580g total. 

[runningbird]

Good luck, I hunt with a longbow and it is tough.  I got a mule deer this year at 18yds.  Ive shot at a couple whitetails but at over 20 yards they are long gone before my arrow arrives. Its still a blast.

[AZBIG10]

It took me a decade with a compound bow. I expect to double that length of time with a longbow! I’m all now too late to turnaround.

[oz31p]

2 hours ago, AZBIG10 said:

It took me a decade with a compound bow. I expect to double that length of time with a longbow! I’m all now too late to turnaround.

Dang, In the last 10years I took 7 otc deer in Az. I figured it was time. I was able to get a javelina I’m jan before the crack was too bad. 

[oz31p]

5 hours ago, runningbird said:

Good luck, I hunt with a longbow and it is tough.  I got a mule deer this year at 18yds.  Ive shot at a couple whitetails but at over 20 yards they are long gone before my arrow arrives. Its still a blast.

Thanks with the recurve I felt like I had a natural gift. With the long bow sometimes I think I might be left handed😉

[AZBIG10]

41 minutes ago, oz31p said:

Thanks with the recurve I felt like I had a natural gift. With the long bow sometimes I think I might be left handed😉

Is a long bow slower?

[AZBIG10]

 

[oz31p]

1 hour ago, AZBIG10 said:

Is a long bow slower?

I don’t think so. It’s 2lbs heavyer and my point on is the same

[AZAV8ER]

I hunted one year with a recurve then went to black powder roundball. Did a lot of range time with a 55# bare bow and mounted about 3 pins for the hunt. At the time read up on traditional gear and a 2 bladed broached with a 3-1 aspect (length to width) with hefty arrows sounded like the way to go with trad gear.

[idgaf]

,I took one a few years ago still hunting. One of my greatest hunting achievements.  Fred eichler 150 grain broadheads and Walmart aluminum arrows. The bow is a ben Pearson I picked up at a swapmeet for fifteen bucks. Whenever I have time I switch back to it. 

 

[AZBIG10]

Here is my set up.

ragim

slik trik 

gold tip trad

It’s a 50# 28 DL

GPSd it at 89 fps  

 

[MULEPACKHUNTER]

We shoot every weekend at work, shooting right now atually. Shooting a couple cheap 45 lb off the shelf bows. I don't hunt with it yet but it's a blast. 

 

[MULEPACKHUNTER]

Here's our target, haha use what you got.