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| Big Phil |
Starting out in Bowhunting?Okay, you chaps have rekindled my interest in the bow.I always fancied myself as using the English Longbow for bringing down the Kings Deer in Sherwood Forest. I am a bit of a luddite so where and how can I start with the bow? Where and what to buy or how to make? Arrows where and what to buy or how to make? And I guess abit about the law, its not legal to hunt with a bow in our green and pleasant land; any restrictions on ownership and use? |
| Shiro |
Legalities aside, you are not allowed to Bowhunt in this country, but if legal, I would get myself down to my nearest Archery club. Target or Field clubs are to be found almost everywhere if you look hard enough for them.
Do a beginners course, practice for a year or two become proficient at range estimation and shooting at odd angles, Field Archery is the better discipline for this, then ditch the longbow and invest in a compound or short recurve for actual hunting. I shoot longbow, and it’s the last thing I would take hunting if I had to. Trips to the USA and some parts of Europe will allow you to hunt for real btw. |
| Big Phil |
I was looking at a 70" flat bow at [url]wighillparkguns.co.uk[/url]
Any thoughts? |
| Tidal_wear |
Phil,you must live up to your name,because a 70" pull(unless its a compound)is too much for me,but there again I am a skinny runt,your better off asking fish,he is more into traditional archery 
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| fish |
he must mean its 70 inches in length!
i shoot a ben pearson recurve thats just under 50lb pull,and on my freqent trips to france hunting ,would seem to be fine for deer,mouflon,turkey,goose etc. but as stated practice is the key,you will need to dcid ewether you want to shoot instinctively or aim,aiming is fine for a butt but an animall that may fcuk off its different.also worthyof note is that broadheads fly different to field points! obtaining broadheads can be a challenge, as allthough broadheads themselves arent illegal to own using them is! best bet is to buy from the states. also should you need arrows fitted with them ie wood arrows get them made here as the postage is a killer. a good metthod for practice is to fit judo points to yer arrows(impossible to lose!) and use balloons in a field as targets,they will move about in the wind and when inflated are aboutthe size of small game or the sweetspot on a deer. worty of consideration is a take-down 3 piece bow,somewhat more discreet than a 6 foot one! 
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| Tidal_wear |
You shot a mouflon fish One of the lucky few
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| Big Phil |
Where do I get a take down from? |
| Tidal_wear |
www.quicks.com/ |
| fish |
i used to own a quicks TD huntr,it is an amazing bow!,also limbs can be baught separately shouls you want to up rate the bow to a more pwerfull draw. also should you want some custom built wood arrows with broadheads just pm me . |
| mayfly |
hey fish, how can see with all hair in ure road........  
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| silenthunter |
big phil get your self down to your local archery club go and see the different set ups thats around then go to a good archery shop have a look at the different bows for sale most archery shops now have there own target so you can have a shot on but make sure you get your self a bow that fits you properly or else you be all over the place then when you got your set up sight in enter some compo's see how you get on then if you get the chance of doing 3d shooting have a go learns you the vital areas to drop of deer/bear then after a year or so if you are still wonting that venison steaks go buck your self a trip france,america,canada then hopefuly you get your dream trophy but all i would say is what ive been told is dont go out on trips until you can hit the vitals 9*out of ten all the best sh hope you start up on the old archery brill fun meet sum great blokes/lasses all the best sh |
| statikpunk |
I own all three I have a pse spider compound, a black widow takedown recurve, and a howard hill longbow. and you can really hunt with all of them down to about 45 pounds of draw. its the arrow that makes the difference in quality of kill. if you are shooting a lighter poundage bow, or a slower bow then you want a heavier arrow with a cut on contact broadhead for maximum penetration. starting with a longbow is good because they are lots of fun and can be had for pretty cheap, but they are definantly a different beast when it comes to learning curve, anybody can pick up a compound bow and be shooting like robin hood in a short while, but the recurve and exponentially the long bow take more time to learn. especially if you are shooting instinctively (the best way to shoot) it by far takes the most practice to master.
if your thinking of building your own bow pick up the 3 book set of the "Bowyers Bible" that's how i learned to make self bows. but if your thinking of hunting with a bow it's my opinion that arrows are what you want to spend the cash on. 
the first is my bows that I described earlier. the second is a picture of the bows i have made the first one is a hybrid style longbow and the one on top is a primitive style flatbow very similar to the ones that the natives of my area made hundreds of years ago (i made it with primitive tools and all natural materials ) they are both made from mountain juniper from right out my back door, and I also have an arrow there that i made with primitive tools from materials around my area (I didn't make the arrow head it is a standard fieldpoint, I don't know how to make stone arrowheads )
anyway making bows is lots of fun and not as hard as you would think
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