Any bowhunters on here?
Super OT, just curious to know if there are any other members on here that hunt with a bow?
I really enjoy hunting with my air rifles but LOOOVE to hunt with a bow… I recently bought some land in an area packed with wild boar and deer so it’s just the perfect playground for me.
I have been hunting with a compound (currently shooting an Elite Hunter) for a number of years but have been thinking about getting a recurve too as I enjoy development and simple/basic.
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bowtech 82nd airborne current
high country safari before that
proline before that
several recurves along the way and current
I shoot a Hoyt carbon element 
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I have been using a crossbow! Best of both worlds if you ask me!
Too cool Manny! 😀 :8:
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Been hunting with compound bows for the last 4 years and love it.
As a botanist, I am curious which guava you are using. Us plant nerds use Latin names because of confusion. There are a bunch of “guavas”:
The most common is Psidium guajava-gets to be about 30 ft. tall- american tropics, greenish yellow fruit, white flowers.
Strawberry guava,Psidium cattleianum is a bit hardier-fruits smaller w/ a reddish color.
Pineapple guava Feijoa sellowiana is the hardiest type, can be grown in Georgia, maybe SC. Gets about to 20 ft tall or so, red, cool-looking flowers, rough, green fruit.
Those are the main types. Any idea which one you use, or maybe what country it’s from? Many thanks for the info, great stuff! Will have to check out Boyers Bible #4; sounds too good to ignore.
Makes sense certain fruit woods perform well; needs to be springy-taking on and losing a lot of weight. Hard to find straight grain though. Is guava less likely to split vs. Osage? Sorry for the pesky questions-you may be the only one with the answers! Thanks.
I use Strawberry Guava, I tried Pineapple but it takes more set and can’t handle as much weight, the more common Yellow Guava just doesn’t grow straight enought to finda piece long enought 🙂
Guava don’t split, but takes a good 6-8 months just to dry enought to start working on it.
I like talking bows, so there’s no pesky questions 🙂
Cool, I had never heard about guava as bow wood. Osage grows around here-too bad guava doesn’t! I’d prefer the warm climate.
As a botanist, I am curious which guava you are using. Us plant nerds use Latin names because of confusion. There are a bunch of “guavas”:
The most common is Psidium guajava-gets to be about 30 ft. tall- american tropics, greenish yellow fruit, white flowers.
Strawberry guava,Psidium cattleianum is a bit hardier-fruits smaller w/ a reddish color.
Pineapple guava Feijoa sellowiana is the hardiest type, can be grown in Georgia, maybe SC. Gets about to 20 ft tall or so, red, cool-looking flowers, rough, green fruit.
Those are the main types. Any idea which one you use, or maybe what country it’s from? Many thanks for the info, great stuff! Will have to check out Boyers Bible #4; sounds too good to ignore.
Makes sense certain fruit woods perform well; needs to be springy-taking on and losing a lot of weight. Hard to find straight grain though. Is guava less likely to split vs. Osage? Sorry for the pesky questions-you may be the only one with the answers! Thanks.
Beautiful bow(s), too. Did you make them out of Osage Orange?
Takes a good shot to bludgeon a tree rat in the head!
Nice.
I use Osage sometimes when I get it from trades, but I mainly make them out of Guava, I introduced Guava as a wood to the primitive archery world several years ago and now it is been used worldwide, if you look at the Boyers Bible volume 4 Tim Baker mentions my name in the Bow Wood segment
Been bow hunting for about 25 years,,,,luv the sport and now my kids are bowhunting too.Great way to see deer and other animals up close.
Great pics Pirate!
Beautiful bow(s), too. Did you make them out of Osage Orange?
Takes a good shot to bludgeon a tree rat in the head!
Nice.
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Next generation nomad in the making. She will be hitting sub MOA groups at 100 yards with an airgun, before she can even drive a car 😆
That is awesome.
I got more enjoyment watching my son take his first deer, than any deer or turkey I have ever taken myself.
Here is a video of My daugther when she was 3
Been bow hunting for 26 years, also shoot 3d shoots. My oldest son who is 7 started shooting targets with a Mathews mini genesis at the age of 4. He’s not quite ready to start hunting with the bow yet, but want be too long, prob 2 to 3 more years. He took he’s first deer this past year (6 pt buck) with my Ar 223, then two weeks latter got a doe with the Ar. I can’t wait for him to get big enough to pull enough pounds back with he’s bow to hunt with it.
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My setup..
Pse stinger 3G