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Big Game Hunting => Bow Hunting => Topic started by: JasonG on March 27, 2016, 03:27:31 PM

Title: Traditional elk hunters?
Post by: JasonG on March 27, 2016, 03:27:31 PM: How many guys hunt elk with a traditional bow?
Title: Re: Traditional elk hunters?
Post by: STIKNSTRINGBOW on March 28, 2016, 01:46:12 PM: I carry a Martin Recurve on long hikes during season.
Shoot more deer than elk, more stumps than anything else...
Title: Re: Traditional elk hunters?
Post by: BnB on March 28, 2016, 02:15:38 PM: I hunt with a Martin Savanna. Got it about 2006. In 1991 till then I used a Archery Traditions Bamboo Longhunter. Either wood arrows or alum 2016, 2018.
Title: Re: Traditional elk hunters?
Post by: D-Rock425 on March 28, 2016, 04:56:38 PM: I've been thinking about giving this a go this year. Really need to challenge myself now that compounds aren't fun to me anymore.
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Post by: justyhntr on March 29, 2016, 04:54:16 AM: This year I will be carrying a Yellowstone longbow. Goldtip arrows with inserts and 200 grain single bevel broadhead .
Title: Re: Traditional elk hunters?
Post by: Tree Killer on March 29, 2016, 06:08:05 PM: Been hunting elk with stickbows for 30 years. My last elk was a 10 yard shot from a treestand over a "HOT" wallow.

(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fv117%2Ftreekiller%2Ftrophy%2520photos%2F2014bull1_zps8093750e.jpg&hash=387f1eba818fffa51500d99e84572ae03f20b60b) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/treekiller/media/trophy%20photos/2014bull1_zps8093750e.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Traditional elk hunters?
Post by: scotsman on March 30, 2016, 10:08:27 AM: People have been hunting big animals for, oh 20,000 years or so before compounds were invented. Homo sapiens may have gone extinct if those single string bows didn't do the job....

Just keep your bow weight over 50#, use arrows weighing around 10 gpp with very sharp cut on contact heads and know your effective range.
Title: Re: Traditional elk hunters?
Post by: luvmystang67 on March 30, 2016, 10:25:50 AM: Quote from: D-Rock425 on March 28, 2016, 04:56:38 PM
I've been thinking about giving this a go this year. Really need to challenge myself now that compounds aren't fun to me anymore.

What a jerk.

Try shooting something other than a cow from a tree stand.

I wont be impressed until you shoot a bear with a bow.
Title: Re: Traditional elk hunters?
Post by: metlhead on March 30, 2016, 09:49:36 PM: This will be my fourth year chasing elk with my bow. Ultra death laser beam under 6yds! It's a Nomad recurve and I'm pulling about 58#. Ugly as sin, but it will kill stuff.
Title: Re: Traditional elk hunters?
Post by: scotsman on March 30, 2016, 10:05:40 PM: Hmmm. Not sure who you are talking to. I took this bear with my homemade recurve and homemade arrows from the ground at 10 yards. My daddy told me that the measure of a good hunter isn't how far he can kill a critter, it's how close you can kill a critter. Btw this is my 3rdbear with stick bow.
Title: Re: Traditional elk hunters?
Post by: Tim in Wa. on April 02, 2016, 01:44:25 PM: Treekiller and Scotsman, my hat's off to both of you.To be consistently effective I've with trad.equipment is no small feat
Tim
Title: Re: Traditional elk hunters?
Post by: syoungs on April 02, 2016, 02:40:58 PM: Quote from: scotsman on March 30, 2016, 10:05:40 PM

Hmmm. Not sure who you are talking to. I took this bear with my homemade recurve and homemade arrows from the ground at 10 yards. My daddy told me that the measure of a good hunter isn't how far he can kill a critter, it's how close you can kill a critter. Btw this is my 3rdbear with stick bow.

He was calling out D rock.
Title: Re: Traditional elk hunters?
Post by: Tree Killer on April 04, 2016, 06:00:25 AM: Quote from: Tim in Wa. on April 02, 2016, 01:44:25 PM
Treekiller and Scotsman, my hat's off to both of you.To be consistently effective I've with trad.equipment is no small feat
Tim

Thanks Tim!