

I practiced all summer long and got to where I could hit a 6-inch circle at 20 yards.

That way, I’d be forced to hunt with my recurve. I decided that I’d set aside my property for traditional archery hunting only. I hadn’t seen any really big bucks on the property, so I wasn’t that worried about missing the buck of a lifetime there. I have a little bit of property around my house that I hunt. Redneck Soft Side 6圆 Camo 360 Blind in Realtree Xtra Last year we both decided that the only way to kill deer with our recurves would be to take them with us hunting. We started practicing more with that as a goal. So for that reason, I’d never taken it with me.Ī couple of years ago, Michael Waddell and I started talking about our mutual desire to take a deer with our recurve bows. Sealing the deal is hard enough with a compound bow. I worried that if a buck of a lifetime stepped out in front of me, I wouldn’t be able to harvest it with my recurve. But, every year when hunting season came around, I’d always end up leaving my recurve at home and toting my compound into the woods with me. Keeping this in mind, I’d practice with it from time to time. Even though I focused most of my energies toward shooting a compound, I knew that one day I’d really like to kill a deer with my recurve bow. My archery career started in my late teens and early 20s.

It’s a very traditional form of archery requiring instinctive shooting, much like throwing a baseball. I knew that the Indians had shot recurves, and I thought that was pretty cool. The first bow that I ever owned was a recurve that my dad bought me when I was a kid.
