Thread 2830974

I think I am going to start bow hunting this year. I have woods behind my house that has some decent sized bucks. I have an old compound bow that is 25ish years old. Anyone have a recommendation on a bow? I would like something up to 85 pound draw. What do you shoot? What do you hunt?

>>2830974 (OP)
i shot a deer with my crossbow last year but i didnt die. i think next year im just gonna aim for its head so it doesn't ricochet off its ribbs again

>>2830979
lol no kidding I heard head was harder than ribs

>>2830979
you probably didnt hit the vitals
animals can go for hundreds of yards even if you hit the vitals

>>2830974 (OP)
i shoot a takedown bow at 50lb draw for 28incjes max distance is currently 30 yards.
going bow hunting this weekend

>>2830982
net hunting is the real patricians choice

>>2830982
clay hayes shot a hog in one of his trips and it ran 200 yards before it dropped

>>2830979
>ricochet
wait are you using broadheads on your bolts? This is only something i can see happen if you use fieldpoints

>>2830986
from a pistol crossbow probably. sounds like a ninja hunter

>>2830974 (OP)
About as humane as killing them with a fork

>>2830998
why even kill a deer, it's not like he's starving. and with a commercially bought equipment at that. if he at least made his own, I could kinda understand the pauper/postapocalypse train of thought.

>>2830998
You don't give a fuck about humane

>>2830998
if you miss

>>2831011
Not OP, in my area, deer are like a plague. They disrupt farming and make driving dangerous. If it weren't for the hunting that currently is practiced, we'd have a lot less corn and onions, a bunch of emaciated deer, and high insurance premiums.

>>2831011
>why even kill a deer, it's not like he's starving
how many cocks have you sucked?

>>2831022
>They disrupt farming
based af

>>2831092
killing an animal just because will not make you a man or enlarge your micropenis. loser

>>2831101
neither does hiking or camping, faggot.
There is a lot more to do outdoors than going camping once a year for 3 days out of the year with an entire house worth of gear. And there isnt anytning special about hiking.
Get off your high horse.

>>2831101
your post says more about you than it does me

>>2831101
In many cultures around the world including the United States and europe your first kill in a hunt is actually considered a right of passage

>>2831111
I thought it was your first kill in some shithole like baltimore or miami

>>2831108
you self-described pretty well at the mention of cocksucker

>>2831105
well I do camp and carry my stuff on horses, how did you guess?

>>2830979
>i shot a deer with my crossbow last year but i didnt die
good to hear you are okay!

>>2831022
I really wish this were more commonly understood. The same people who bitch about hunting wouldn't be able to eat their vegan diets without it.

>>2831022
Deer doing God's work disrupting man-made structures
>>2831105
True, but it's unlikely to cause any exterior suffering, so logically hiking is superior to inhumanely killing deers with your 5k fork expeller
>>2831111
tradition =/= good. unless you agree with traditions such as circumcision, but you most likely do

>>2831181
cringe and landlocked

>kill some defenseless animals
this makes someone feel good why?

>>2831242
it's the same as bullying. now you might hear often that bullies are such and such because they were hurt as well, but isn't it quite ugly that causing someone pain relieves the soul? humans are at least semi-demonic, otherwise they'd be healing by helping instead of hurting

this is easily the worst board

>>2831101
Non one is killing deer "just because". It's for food. WIld game is the healthiest food you can eat, and it's also the most ethical way to harvest meat assuming you don't torture the animal to death.

>>2831242
Because we're humans and we evolved to hunt, d'uh.

@2831169
can you respond to me without crying?

>>2831292
well well, it seems a chord was struck there. how old were you at your first fellatio? was he older?

@2831300
you are really obsessed with guy on guy oral
you would benefit from suicide

>>2831357
was it your dad? it was your dad, wasn't it?

You guys think he's ready to harvest or should I give him another season?

>>2831255
most of the people that ruin it are people that dont even go outside btw

>>2831504
If it was the last day and you had nothing, would you shoot him then?

>>2831504
What kind of deer is this?

>>2831682
I think it's a male.

>>2831698
All deer are female
Moose are the male deer, idiot

>>2831101
This is a controversial opinion to have on this board, but you're exactly right.

>>2831884
>/out/ board
>against hunting
What??

>>2831888
Everything outside of generals on this board only recgonizes hiking and camping as outdoors
everything else simply isnt /out/
i wish i was making this up

>>2831889
probably why it is a dead board

>>2830979
learn to shoot straight before going out hunting you subhuman faggot and if you did hit it correctly but for some reason didn't chase it then you are still a stupid subhuman

>>2831889
not a board regular, but how tf does /k/ have better hunting threads than /out/. a lot of the takes here are /co/ tier.

hey guys, could you kill yourself with a regular recurve/compound bow?
obviously a crossbow could but they require a license here
you could use a draw-loc on a bow but i think the trigger would be too far back

>>2832713
You could probably hold a recurve pointing up and then use your foot to draw and then release to shoot yourself, it'd be awkward though, compound same method but even more awkward as you'd need to draw the release back and then release it with your foot.

>>2832713
it's easier with an ordinary bow, just make a bow trap of sorts. tie the trigger to a dog's tail and throw him some steaks so he pulls the string

>>2832687
>frogposting faggot doesn't understand 4chan even after a decade of being here

You love to see it

>>2831111
rite

>>2832992
right

>>2833536
right of passage is when robin hood and little john meet on a log

>>2832687
Because most of this board is full of people that dont actually go outside
the people on this board are people from the following boards that are wanting to get into outdoors as a cope for how shit their lives are:
>/v/
>/r9k/
>/pol/
>/a/
>/jp/
the problem is they dont wanna learn actual outdoor things like starting a fire, cooking food on a fire or even tying knots or fishing. They wanna pay their way like they did in their previous hobby. So they end up treating it the exact same only to end up just as pissed off and grumpy and then wonder why nothing has changed.

>>2833758
I was saying as in correct

>>2834289
rite

is 80lb draw over kill for deer?

>>2834560
not if you miss it

>>2834560
no

>>2830974 (OP)
>Anyone have a recommendation on a bow?
https://apaarchery.com/products/king-cobra-dg/

I'm gonna try to get a bow deer for the first time this year too. I'm gonna go with the sage 50 pound one piece recurve. I'm gonna put a different string on it right away with silencers. Then get a shaft and broadhead setup. I've got a quiver somewhere and an old compound, but I want a fresh setup. I have good hopes. I think I'll get one opening day. I've always been really good at "gap shooting" and I thin between now and next month I'll have more than enough target practice to be comfortable in the woods

bow hunting sounds really fun but i feel like youd end up maiming a bunch of deer and getting no meat

>>2836820
trick is broadhead choice. you want as much cutting edge as possible, and at least 3 blades. without blood, it will be very hard to find your deer. But if you can make her bleed good, youre gonna be eating good

Just pulled the trigger and bought this one piece recurve, deer better look out next month because Im gonna be dropping some hammers

>>2831920
Its a recent phenomenon.
5 years ago it was pro hunting and very busy.
Odd how those two things coincided...

>>2836934
I hope you know what you're doing m8 because a 50lb recurve isn't a joke

>>2836967
I've been at it a long time. 50 pounds is as light as I want to go. My old grandpas longbow was 61 and my dad and I would shoot it all day when I was still in the army

Hoyt Satori
21 inch riser
Medium Satori Limbs

Looking to get some iron will broadheads on microdiameter arrows for hunting, hopefully go on my first hunt next year after some practice.

>>2836988
>>2836988

>>2836988
>21 inch riser
Are you short? That's a small riser. If you're going barebow you'll want barebow weights on that, it's a recurve riser.

>>2837040
>Are you short?
I'm 5'9, so yes I am short. Also, Satori risers only come in 17/19/21 inch risers. It is a hunting bow, these riser lengths are just fine. Having a slightly shorter bow in the wilderness is not a bad thing.

>>2837203
Fair enough, I do target archery and the smallest riser for that is 23 iirc, 25 being normal.

>>2836988
>>2836990
total length of your bow should be almost as tall as you are

>>2837203
what's the #?

>>2830984
I thought adrenaline would make the meat tougher = its better to shoot rather than it being petrified trapped in a net, is this wrong?

>>2837350
I have 3 sets of limbs:
20, 40, 50
Hoping to acquire some 35s, and 45s as well eventually

I’m going elk bow hunting next week and afraid to hike in the dark. What’s the best way to protect myself from wendigos at night?

>>2837458
why so many? why not just keep thr 50 on as a broad usage?

>>2837631
Gotta train up to that 50

>>2830974 (OP)
Compound bow hunting is extremely gay. You sit in a tree with camo gear and a bow made for handicapped niggers that halves the draw weight so your pussy ass don't start shaking because you draw with your arms instead of your back and shoulder muscles like you're supposed to.

Real bow hunting? You have to mix innawoods with fringe. First step is to have grown up in the woods so you can navigate on instinct and track. Second step is to have a custom ashwood bow made by an expert craftsman wizard that infuses it with a spirit. Now train with that bow for years and develop your relationship with your spirit bow and grow your back muscles until you're asymmetrical. Get make your own arrows, figure out the perfect spine and grain for your draw weight, craft each arrow with the utmost care to infuse them with your energy. Now get a pair of dowaing rods to track your prey. Practice semen retention for higher levela of intuition and making your spirit bow shoot true for you. Don't think. See, draw, let go. If you did all the steps correctly you'll be allowed a prey worthy of the efforts you put in. Honor the felled animal and make good use out of it.

>>2830974 (OP)
Can i make one from a fishing rod?

>>2837690
start at 30 take creatine and shoot regularly
jump to 45 rinse repeat
general rule of thumb: If you hold that # at full draw for 30 seconds you're ready to shoot that #

>t. TD recurve hunter

>>2837831
jump to 40*

>>2830974 (OP)
straight up, hunting should be outlawed. no one needs to shoot a deer anymore.

humans are too plentiful and big game is too scarce. stop attacking wild animals, you are seriously a nigger if you shoot a single animal.

my only exception is something that endangers your animals, like a wolf if you had sheep. and even then, it's tragic, you kind of baited the poor guy. we should also have a massive enforced swathe of wildlands, like seriously the size of a small continent that is 0% people by law.

i love eating meat, but we're sophisticated beings. if you want to eat deer, let's just raise some deer. killing wild animals is getting stupider every day. space on this planet is constricting and those animals can't run to "somewhere else" forever. think in terms of the future, not the past. hunting is bad.

>>2831101
Sounds like you sucked miles of cock.

>>2837914
>straight up

>>2837914
this board sucks

>>2837914
if you dont hunt deer they overpopulate and die horribly of disease and it negatively affects the entire ecoystem. youre are retarded and stupid go to the library

>>2836934
>>2836769
STRUNG HER UP! fucking great bow. it draws so fucking smooth. I could've got a 70 pounder. it doesnt stack or anything. clean fucking full draw shots. god its such a good fucking cheap bow

I'm gonna kill the fuck out of two deer this year. If I bag two, I'll have meat for me, the wife, and the baby all the way through next hunting season. Cant fucking wait to get in the woods boys

>>2836769
sage is good but the pse nighthawk, sage and another bow is all
made in the same factory so the limbs are interchanable
i mostly go hog hunting and havent seen shit yet probably becaude we havent laid out corn
t. 50lb pse nighthawn

>>2837914
when you eat meat from the store, an animal still had to die to provide life for you. that animal, a subject of factory farming methods, likely lived and died in piss and shit, suffering, pain, and fear. when you hunt an animal out of the wild, you can humanely kill the animal by your own hands. you can make sure 100% of the animals meat is used and butchered cleanly. You can pay respect to the direct animal which has gave its life, for you to keep living. It is the cleanest and most ethical thing, anybody can do, to get meat. anything short of owning your own small family farm and butchering your own cows and chickens.

>>2837976
Id love to tag some hogs but I live in ohio and they arent nearly as populous up here

the sage draws great! and I didnt know that about pse. I'm pretty sure galaxy owns sage so itd make sense if galaxy is that other brand you were thinking of. Since mines a 1 piece though theres no changing out limbs!

if I get another bow down the line I might go for 70 or 80 pound long bow. But I've been really looking into tilling and bowery in general. I am really thinking about just making one myself next time. When I was a kid in boyscouts I made a ~10-15 pound long bow out of beech saplings. I'm sure as an adult I can do better lol

>>2837986
*tillering and *bowyery

the robots really dont like bow making talk I guess

>>2837986
I wish i had the brains to get into bowyery
it looks super complicated

>>2837818
this so much this

Got the self climber, deer are about to get dropped

I've got lots of rope, carbineers, belay devices, and harnesses left over from boy scouts and the army. So I'm fucking golden to go way super far back in the woods opening day at like 3am and climb way up a fucking tree, safely lol

Practically counting down the days

Coworker sold me this bad boy for $75. He bought it brand new for $300 something and used it a single time, and hung it in his garage for the last couple years. It's dusty as hell but its mint. It barely even has scuffs on the cables.

>>2839222
The gayest possible way to hunt
Be a man and spot and stalk

>>2839239
If you can't do it all, youre even gayer

I do all the hunting, all the kinds. While I love a solo stalk or a drive with family. Being 30' up a tree on a specific part of this specific public land near me is the place to be this year. I just know it, and I'm gonna get it.

I've been scouting this area a lot over the last few years, and I know opening week of bow season is going to be popular. Where I'm gonna be set up, at least 4 or 5 hours early then sleep till hunting time, all of the joe shmo's who really only stick to within a few hundred feet of established trails. They should shake everything up, in my direction where I'll be sitting there chilling.

Do it all anon, stop limiting yourself

>>2839222
Climbers are the way to go esp for public. Practice with it before you go out though so you know the right tree thiccness for you so you know what to look for. It will also let you adjust the seat to your liking.

Also get a ratchet strap for the bottom platform. Having it secured to the tree makes the hunt faaaar more comfortable since it removes all worry and rattle of that bottom platform. Just three cranks and that bitch will be dug in. Top one doesn't need to be secured. Both the top and bottom can be strapped together with it too for transport so the metal isn't banging when you're walking.

Put a folding saw in your pack too. Even a perfect looking tree can have a little bitch sticking out that you need to trim off.

I have a few climbers scatter around my property. I like them better than perm stands. I'm able to move a few trees down if that is where the deer are coming from and even moving just 10 yards can make all the difference.

>>2840253
The ratchet strap trick is something I have never heard before and I will 100% incorporate it into my setup because thats an awesome idea

I've been hunting with climbers since I was in middle school. My dad got onto them pretty early on and would basically set us up in primo trees on the property and drive deer to us as kids

When I can buy my own property further down south in my state where the woods coverage is better, I'm gonna do it up the same way. My dad would have 3 or 4 climbers around the woods throughout the season and you'd just hike out and go hunting. That's the dream.

Just like you said, as a kid the deer would change movement around our back woods, specifically around the ravine. If my older brother or dad was like hey man I saw a bunch of big does down by the rockwells property, you just move the stand down the way fifty-hundred yards down the hill and youre in there.

I usually shoot deer w/ a rifle, but I've been interested in bow hunting since I was 19/20 when my dad shown me his.

>>2841577
get out and do it anon, this is the first year I'm gonna be taking a bow hunting

decide if you want to go traditional, compound, or crossbow. learn about bow weights, arrow weights, arrow spines, broadhead types, tuning arrows, and do lots and lots and lots of practice shooting.

then get out there and do it anon

I'm beyond hyped that I can go hunting tomorrow for white tail deer, in my tree stand, and it'll be 70 something degrees and green leaves on the trees. It's actually mind blowing to me, coming from a winter gun hunter

good luck boys

Didn't see any today. Sat in a tree all day, but the late evening. I bet if I would've stayed till dark. I would've seen a few deer because I was around a ton of beds and scrapes, and trails going to and from them. I'm still new to early season hunting so I'm having to learn the hard way, 3 am red lighting in really doesn't do shit for you in september. It's better to get those deer in the evening when they go back to bed

Going again tomorrow on a different property and stalking, only in the evening while the wife sees here brother and sister in law. Hopefully I tag one tomorrow.

>>2842266
I'm trying, but I need the funds first for the compound bow, and I bought a deer stand, and there's other things I'm trying to get in order, like getting the funds to get my deer processed, otherwise I'll use a credit card (which I don't want). I will do it, though.

>>2842405
you have your priorities straight! should never harvest without a plan to process.

my local guy retired and now theres no processor in my whole county. I'll have to drive at least 20 minutes to a half hour away to have mine processed. At least the dude I have to drive to is honestly very very good and it's a good price

look into slightly older mathews like the halon or v3x (picrel)

the v3x is a beast.

>>2837203
>I'm 5'9, so yes I am short
That's the global average.
Am getting started with a longbow, QRD on how to select appropriate arrows?

>>2842674
If you aren't tall, you're short. Sorry bud.

>>2842685
Your speculation bubba, and a wrong one at that.