There was a time when every week there would be a thread titled "Are Black Widow bows worth the money"?. That just came back to me LOL. Do you have another?

I think they found out they were worth the money LOL. I remember when we had penny candy. When people respected each other and property. When a dollar was actually worth a dollar LOL.

Is 40# too light to kill a deer.

When you could still kill a deer with a cedar arrow and a Zwicky Eskimo.

They stack.

How fast was Joe driving when he killed that dear?

"I wouldn't give you $20.00 for a barrel full".

Dean, I remember those days, zwickeys and cedar don't kill anything anymore, they bounce off deer now.

Fred, WWII camo, and Bear razors. JFK in a '64 Lincoln.

Well...that is as far back as I can go.

The American Sportsman theme song was playing.

The gun hunters asking us where our green tights and silly hats were.

You guys still flinging sticks at running deer?

Shooting your arm off at deer all day long and never hitting one. Whoops did I really say that?

I remember going to the barbershop with my dad in the mid to late '50s and the subject of bowhunting would come up. My dad would say: "Why would any body want to carry a 50# bow around in the wooods, a shotgun is heavy enough as it is?" My dad was hunting with a 50#+ Pearson long bow at the time. bvd

Gas was .20 a gallon, go hunting all day long to where ever you wanted to.

Bodkin three blade broadheads were $4 a dozen. Sure worked good on those $40/100, Rose City POC shafts.

Being able to have your shotgun/rifle in your back window of your truck at HIGH SCHOOL. And be no big deals

Box Call

They are worth the money! One of the best buys for your dollar for a lifetime bow purchase by guys young enough to back it for a long time.

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Going to a school auditorium to watch the Wally Taber show on a reel projector.

Bought my first Bitzenburger for under $15 at Robin Hood Archery in NJ. Times have changed.

Deno

When Ken Beck was new at Black Widow. When 3Rivers Archery printed their first catalog. When shooting 3 under really was novel. When Gadabout Gaddis was on TV every week. The first carbon arrows. When Western Auto stores sold a full ine of sporting goods. Heck, when Sears sold a full line of sporting goods. 2-D archery shoots in the city park. Joan and Lee Wulff on the American Sportsman. When Myles Keller shot a Howat Hunter recurve. When Chuck Adams shot a Wing recurve. When fiberglass arrows were "new". When Bear magnesium riser takedowns were less than $200.00 new. When Ben Pearson Archery was still making recurves in Pine Bluff.

Is there such a thing as instinctive shooting? The Bunny Hunter had some funny threads. Is it ethical if I bla bla bla! What's this original 1953 Pat. Bear Worth. Saw it on Ebay. Is it safe to put Tinks 69 on your hunting clothes?

That was pretty good fdp!

My first McKenzie 3D buck was $67!

I loved Gadabout Gaddis Smokedinpa.

Richard Green's Robin Hood was awesome. Loved it.

I also really enjoyed the North American Sportsman with Curt Gowdy.

Jawge

“Shoots where I point, dead in the hand”.

We had trap shooting in phy ed so we would bring our shotguns to school. we had to leave them at the front of the bus though. I also bought a Bear Black Panther bow at K-Mart for $69.99

The bus driver would pick up a box of shotgun shells and take care of the gun while I was at school. Then he would drop me off along the ditch halfway home. That worked as long as he got a fresh pheasant the following morning.

wonderful memories ! thanks

Thanks for the Gadabout Gaddis flashback! Getting that brown envelope with lures in it for $1 from his insurance company sponsor was an annual spring treat.

When it was acceptable to shoot animals farther than 20 yds!

Aye..the times, they are a-changin'. And not for the better!

We had "rifle club" in high school, with an indoor .22 range deep in the bowels of the school. Kids brought rifles and shotguns to school for hunter ed classes taught there after school hours...the principal kept them in his office until class. Many vehicles in the lot had firearms for quick hunt after school.

But what I really miss is the readily available hunting land availability and opportunities.

Banging on doors at the age of 8 selling Burpee Seeds getting chased by dogs.

speaking of widows....remember way back i dont know 15-20yrs ago or whenever this site was in its first few yrs some guy with the handle "bobo" would always hijack widow threads and say nothing but "they stack badly". im talking like every dang widow thread. he'd even start widow threads and simply say they stack badly...wonder if "bobo" is still on stickbow??

Dads wore the pants in the home. Now they are largely viewed as the court jesters of the family unit by the alpha-woman. Sad.

Wheres Frisky.

Now don't mess with an Alpha woman you will get eaten when you try to eat her young.LOL

Now ya get attacked when you disagree with bucket tests and all the other tests other than on live real animals.

The killers have left the room they don't exist all we are left is theory and socialists thinking.

Oh and get blamed for rants when the truth should set them free.LOL

Pandora's box you opened.LOL

Rallison, we had a rifle club and a shooting range at my High School also in Eau Claire. Those days are gone, to bad. I used to love it when the big Outdoor Safari type movies would come to town at the theaters. My dad would take me to them and I would just be in awe at everything. It was something to see and hear on the big screen.

My high school drafting teacher kept a Springfield rifle & a double barreled 12 ga shotgun in the supply room just out of reach of the kids. Nobody (as far as I know) asked him why he kept them there & nobody even mentioned anything about grabbing one & starting to shoot other kids in the school. PS: That kid pushing the gas powered mower was lucky. Ours was one of those that didn't have a motor.

We were free to do most anything.....go most anywhere without much thought.....Then came 9/11 :(

Having to wear red or orange outer clothing during archery deer season.

That changed in OK, but not until the mid '60's thanks to archery clubs and folks having some influence with the law makers on state regulations. I took a red hooded sweatshirt and painted leaf patterns on it with yellow and orange paints.

I remember having to wait for a warden to personally show up and register my deer in person back in the 80's. Seems like it took him forever to show up sometimes!

Wow. It's all worth it! Every archer shoots at the Moon once in a while.

If you don't know what this means, bigger do I. See what I mean? ????

I remember when deer did not have names. When we were happy to get a deer, any deer.

WE WERE SPOILED TO DO WHATEVER WE WANTED AND WHERE EVER WE WANTED TO DO.

BUT WE ALSO HAD A TIME TO BE HOME BY AND THE DOORS GOT LOCKED. I SLEPT IN BUSHES A FEW TIMES AND ON THE BOAT OTHER TIMES SO I WAS THERE IN THE MORNING WHEN IT SAILED. lol

SLEPT IN CAR A FEW TIMES ALSO. SOMETIMES I SLEPT IN MY CAR AT MY FATHERS BODY SHOP WHEN WAS OUT ALL NIGHT CAROUSING. STREET RACING OR RUNNING DOES TOO. lol

All he had to do is knock on window and say time for work boy. Go in and wash my face and start beating on fenders and get a coffee. LOL

He wouldn't talk to be until about noon time then say your mother was worried you didn't come home last night. LOL

Come close to weekend and he wouldn't shut up about where the bite was and we were leaving midnight Friday night be down at boat weather permitting to sail.

Those were the times 60' and 70's and 80's then troubles started getting married and having baby's. They tried to cut my wings but their saws were dull I guess. They probably need TNT stuck in my butt. LOL

Hawkeye in pa, I remember the Walley Taber shows. Did you ever go to the greatest archery shop in the world. W.S. Smokey Wagner's. In the 70's I spent hrs there and all of my summer hay bailing money.

bobo :)

Bow Test on a Dead Cow"!

When if you wondered what an arrow, head, combo would do, you took it hunting and found out on game. When there was no internet or smart phones

When if you wondered what an arrow, head, combo would do, you took it hunting and found out on game. When there was no internet or smart phones

When you could believe everything you heard or read....Oh wait, that was never.

I remember when I bought my first recurve in 1976, a Bear Grizzly for $75. Still have the bow.

I also remember when a trail can was a piece of sewing thread string between 2 trees with thumbtacks on an active game trail!

Our whole 6th grade class took the hunter safety course in school. Taught by our social studies teacher. We still had a "party" line and 3 channels to choose from. No clicker necessary. Youngest in the room was the remote.

I've had about a half barrel full of Black Widows, so not an expert yet, but I have loosed a few arrows with BayouGirl.

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