Who's huntin trad this year, what you shooting?

[smj]

OK - Season is in sight, we need to be tossing the arrows regular these days... So, who is shooting traditional this season, and what will you be shooting? (To share the season between a compound and a trad bow is just fine... Tell us about the trad bow!)

I have a take-down longbow I built last year with a pal of mine. I have decided to hunt with it this year as it is my first bow made and as of yet has no kill to its credit. It draws 53 pounds at 28 inches. I will be shooting Goldtip Traditional shafts with Silver Flame, 150 grain broadheads. Game of choice will be elk, mule deer, and caribou! (Man, September is going to be a busy month for me!) Current limbs are Osage with a bambo core, clear glass front and back. I am wanting to build a new set of limbs of IPE belly with the rest bamboo and clear glass - I'd like about 60 pounds at 28 inches. I will also be using a bamboo backed IPE longbow (no glass) for more local shooting - that I am still trying to get built! The take-down will get to go to Canada as it packs smaller - I will fit it into my compound case... Yeah, I'll take a compound along as well - I'd like to take 1 caribou with each! The season in general will probably find me swapping bows each new day. Compound one day, longbow the next.

So what trad bow are you shooting this year?

[BT]

I was actually talking to scotty luck earlier this year and I said that I was going to keep the recurve on the shelf this year since last year was so miserable for me.
But after a month it became a question rather than a certainty

Last week Skipmaster left 6 new 2016's in my Van after a shoot and since we are an hour apart , I shot them

Now , I have plenty of 2016 shafts and they do shoot fine out of the Mamba but I had not tried them out of the Browning.
The Browning loves them
With a 150gr. head I am point on and really smoking the targets
Better than with the test bow

So now I am seriously considering going back to it
The Browning is a take down ,no name beater @ 60# but I shoot it so well that I have little doubts that it will serve the purpose

That's the plan if all remains as is

[Coca Cola]

I am hoping to have 2 osage bows by end of summer. I am going to spilt my osage core in half and back one with hickory and one with boo. If I am proficiant with it I may take it out for the youth weekend. Which is already a huge adantage.

[BT]

I am going to work with the 2213's this week and see which shaft is going to give me the best performance as to penetration.

On the hog hunt Skipmaster was outperforming big time and I believe that it was ( in part ) due to the slower and heavier arrow that I was casting.
I'll look to prove that one out anyway

[snoodslapper]

I'm going to try it this year and really looking forward to it. I used to shoot trad bows a long time ago, but never really hunted with them. I am hoping to have my longbow I ordered last month to me this week. The bowyer called me last week and said is was near finished. Increadibly fast service on a custom bow! I'll post pics when it comes, but I am excited for this fall season. More so than I have been in a long time. The wife and kids got me a Rinehart deer target for father's day and I am almost ready to bust for this bow to get here!

[BT]

Thats a real good fathers day present
Speaks volumes about the family!

I looked at a custom just yesterday and it's the sticker price thats killing me

[BT]

So.... I did some informal shooting today and the lighter shafts (2016) with 150gr. heads outperformed the 2213 with the 165gr. heads as to penetration.

Of course this doesn't tell me a whole lot because I was shooting into back stop material and since the 2213 (and heads) are large , they would indeed offer lesser penetration.

The whomp is more distinctive on the 2213's but thats doesn't tell anything because (once again) the shafts/heads have more mass.

I am going to chrono out the two this afternoon (hopefully) and that should give me better insight

[royden]

For what it is worth Bt I have a long bow builder aquintance here that swears by 2018's for the long bows - don't know how that would equate to recurves, but I suspect a little lighter spine would be just right.

[BT]

The 2018's are about the same as the 2213 (a bit stiffer I believe) but with a better wall to them.

The 2016's are spot on and fly very good but the 2213's just have a feel to them....cant see any difference in flight , only impact area.
None the less....I like the 2213's even if they do impact a little left of the lighter 2016 shafts

[Greg Krause]

I am (sorta always) on the prowl for another bow, in the 50ish pound range. I have been shooting my Super Shrew longbow(49#@'s) and will be doing some hunting with it this season. i have been able to shoot that bow quite well, although it's been a little whiles since I have shot it. I am also shooting my 55# Super Kodiak and getting pretty good with that as well. I see another hog hunt hapening this summer for sure! My plan is to use as many bows as i can this year to take deer.......as long as i can shoot them all well I want to rotate bows for a few kills. Maybe then i could justify owning so many bows! LOL