Hanging up the Smokepole

Yesterday was the registration deadline for firearm deer permits and, while I've been tossing this idea around for a while, I finally made a hard decision yesterday to not register to hunt with a firearm this year. Through a series of complications over the past few years I haven't managed to make it into the woods during the season and having just seven days a year to get out there makes it quite difficult.

Instead I'm going to dive head-first into traditional/primitive archery and see if I can't get out at least one time during the much longer season.

As David Petersen says, I want to do it "the hard way" and hunting on the ground with a recurve or longbow while stalking my prey seems to be about as hard as it can get.

I'm officially calling on you, dear readers, for your help in this endeavor. Mike and Mike, as traditional archers I'm going to be bugging you endlessly with questions about shooting and equipment. Pablo, I'm going to be asking you for tracking help as I learn just what I don't know about tracking methods. The rest of you, if you've got some experience in the field of primitive archery (or archery in general,) stalking, tracking, or even gear selection I'll be asking you for advice.

This is a new page for me and I hope increasing the difficulty earns me some success in the woods this coming year.

Thanks for reading,


B