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Main Discussion Area => Announcements => Topic started by: MadMike on October 12, 2013, 12:20:39 am

Title: New To the Forum!
Post by: MadMike on October 12, 2013, 12:20:39 am
hello guys, i'm Mike.. new here not sure where this would go.

also new to the whole selfbow thing, been studying up on it for a while now, i'm 20 years old and cut trees for a living (bow wood!) i'm the only one in my family who hunts, i'm self/internet taught, and passed hunter education when i was 12, got my first deer kill that year as well! (12g shotgun) got my first bow kill when i was 14, with a compound bow (i'm good with those 1" groups at 40yards)

i ordered a longbow its a hickory backed osage bow 72" NTN #50 @30" i pull 28" so #40ish for me.

i've been shooting it for a couple weeks now and i can get 5-8" groups at 20 yards...i think this is really my thing..i've always wanted to live primitively since i was 10 or so watching tarzan!

like i said i've been researching for a long while and know most of it on paper...just have to actually do it!

just an introduction of myself, hope to be a big part of this community!

P.S the woods i can get are: Hackberry, Live oak, Pin oak, Chinese tala(sp?) Crepe mytrle, Pecan, Ash...thats about it off the top of my head...not much osage around here...thinking i want to try hackberry as my first attempt.
Title: Re: New To the Forum!
Post by: Joec123able on October 12, 2013, 12:25:39 am
Welcome ! Hackberry is good bow wood. Now just delete the word bow after compound and change it to contraption then we'll be good LOL
Title: Re: New To the Forum!
Post by: lostarrow on October 12, 2013, 12:26:38 am
If you let people know where you are from ,you'll likely get some people from that area that will chime in with all kinds of helpful info.  I think the Moderators will move this over to another area , but people always look at the "show new posts" under your login in name. (very handy) Welcome aboard!
Title: Re: New To the Forum!
Post by: PrimitiveTim on October 12, 2013, 12:38:52 am
Welcome dude!  With your access to pecan I'm gonna make a wild guess and say you're from Georgia.  The more you learn the more you learn that there's a lot to learn.  Get on it as fast as you can.  Get some staves seasoning ASAP.  Collect as many as you can store and relax and hit those staves one after the other.  Good luck!
Title: Re: New To the Forum!
Post by: MadMike on October 12, 2013, 12:43:14 am
Texas, 8 pecan trees in my front yard, 2 in the back! A LOT of them around here.

thanks for the welcoming me guys!
Title: Re: New To the Forum!
Post by: wood_bandit99 on October 12, 2013, 01:28:29 am
Hey mike just as a heads up these bowyers are a little on the off side if u are pretty city-ish. They are weird but probably some of the coolest guys u will meet. Welcome to the real world!
Title: Re: New To the Forum!
Post by: MadMike on October 12, 2013, 01:58:29 am
oh no i'm about as country as they come lol...
Title: Re: New To the Forum!
Post by: BowEd on October 12, 2013, 06:09:51 am
Welcome Mike.You'll have a blast.
Title: Re: New To the Forum!
Post by: Gsulfridge on October 12, 2013, 06:19:31 am
Welcome aboard friend!!
Title: Re: New To the Forum!
Post by: Badly Bent on October 12, 2013, 08:58:04 am
Welcome Mike. Sounds like your ready to jump in full bore, gonna be fun having you here on the site. You'll find that you won't have to go at it alone if you post questions and pictures of your projects along the way, lots of people here will want to help you learn and you'll get some good advice. Get some wood ready cause I think your gonna like doing this. :)
Title: Re: New To the Forum!
Post by: The Gopher on October 12, 2013, 09:27:16 am
 Welcome aboard! Get the traditional bowyers Bible books and read them cover to cover.  Get some wood cut and split, and sealed. You might be able to trade some green staves for a seasoned stave or two, i would if i lived closer.
Title: Re: New To the Forum!
Post by: SLIMBOB on October 12, 2013, 10:04:50 am
Welcome aboard fellow Texican!
Title: Re: New To the Forum!
Post by: BowSlayer on October 12, 2013, 10:50:50 am
hey welcome aboard. can't wait to see your first bow. and pictures lots of pictures ;)
Title: Re: New To the Forum!
Post by: IdahoMatt on October 12, 2013, 11:14:29 am
Welcome Mike.  You will find so much help on here. People are very selfless with the info they have attained trough a long hard study of the art.  Collectively there is more info here that you will find very useful.  Can't wait to see you first bow ;D
Title: Re: New To the Forum!
Post by: burn em up chuck on October 12, 2013, 12:42:50 pm
    welcome, and good hunting the bow

                              chuck
Title: Re: New To the Forum!
Post by: dbb on October 12, 2013, 08:59:39 pm
Welcome !
This is a great Place to learn from,a lot of talanted people that are generous with advice....But thre should probably come with a sticker sayin
"Warning highly addictive" or something like that  ;D

Mikael
Title: Re: New To the Forum!
Post by: DuBois on October 12, 2013, 09:47:14 pm
Welcome Mike, lots of great experience to learn from here. Sounds like you found the right site  ;)
Title: Re: New To the Forum!
Post by: mullet on October 13, 2013, 01:03:26 pm
Welcome, I'm sure you'll have fun here. Kinda sounds like SE Texas to me or Wichital Falls. Saw lots of pecans when I hunted up there.
Title: Re: New To the Forum!
Post by: 4dog on October 13, 2013, 01:55:18 pm
welcome mike ! what part of texas are you from ..cuz there are texans all over this forum. again welcome!
Title: Re: New To the Forum!
Post by: Pappy on October 14, 2013, 10:31:07 am
Welcome Mike,jump right in the water is fine. ;) :)
   Pappy