From: strigif0rm3s
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Date: 25-May-23 |
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I'm just curious what everyone's thoughts are regarding hunting with a white glass bow? Mainly talking about glass on the back. I know some of you will say that it doesn't matter while others will say why take the risk...etc Just curious your thoughts and opinions and if you've harvested any animals, please post pictures with your white bow. Thanks!
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From: Irish Archer
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Date: 25-May-23 |
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I would think that the ”ground game” thing would be more of an impact here, versus those hunting from treestands.
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From: George D. Stout
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Date: 25-May-23 |
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If they're not shiny, then you should be fine. It's movement that freaks them out. I remember John Schulz saying he could probably take a deer while wearing a tuxedo. Don't know that I'd try that. :) Anyway, you can always put some turtle wax on them and let it dry to a haze.
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From: two4hooking
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Date: 25-May-23 |
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I hunted with one for a few years before I switched hands, ordered a new one with a white belly just recently. I see no negative impacts from a white bow or plaids instead of camo etc. Hunt and play the wind, limit movement. Same as for any hunting.
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From: tradslinger
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Date: 25-May-23 |
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Scent and movement gets us the fastest. I do mainly plaids but aim to hunt with my Gilly top this year. Being confident in yourself and your set up plus waiting for the best shot, like their head behind something or looking back. I usually wear a black watch to cut down on reflection. Heck, they walk within feet of a parked vehicle all of the time.
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From: Jeff Durnell
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Date: 25-May-23 |
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I wouldn't hunt with a white bow any sooner than I'd hunt in white clothes... unless everything is covered with snow. THEN it's camo.
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From: Red Beastmaster
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Date: 25-May-23 |
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White and black are two colors you rarely see in the woods. I avoid both while hunting.
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From: Jon Stewart
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Date: 25-May-23 |
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Killed a fox with a bow with white glass on both sides of the limbs.
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From: Saphead
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Date: 25-May-23 |
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Really good in the snow!
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From: Murph
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Date: 25-May-23 |
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I have killed a few critters with white arrows. At the time I needed hunting arrows, all the local maker had was white. Didn't bother the deer at all.
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From: crazyjjk
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Date: 25-May-23 |
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Shades of black gray and white are what most critters see in the woods except for a few critters (birds) that see color. So white or black are very much part of their world in their habitat. I wouldn't have a problem with a white limbed bow for things like deer, bear or others.
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From: Sunset Hill
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Date: 25-May-23 |
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I've shot game with white glass bows for years. Both on back and belly or just on the belly. All my current bows have white glass and I used full length white arrow shafts also. It's just a thing I do to prove it to myself that shooting game can be done with this perceived handicap
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From: Murph
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Date: 25-May-23 |
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Thinking of going with this whitish glass bow. I am sure the deer will come from afar saying shoot me, shoot me!!!!
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From: Goatflamm
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Date: 25-May-23 |
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I've killed a couple white tails(from a tree) with white glass. I have a 58 Kodiak that is up to bat first this year. We will see!
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From: Sunset Hill
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Date: 25-May-23 |
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white glass both sides, full length white arrows, light colored windshirt. Big boar shot at 6 steps.
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From: Jimmyjumpup
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Date: 26-May-23 |
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yea that doesn't matter at all.
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From: Steve Milbocker
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Date: 26-May-23 |
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I’ve seen a few pictures of Jack Howard’s kills with his beautiful bows. They had white glass and he was dressed in street clothes as well
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From: strigif0rm3s
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Date: 26-May-23 |
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thanks so much all. Mostly i figured it didnt matter, as others stated, movement and scent get us the quickest. That being said i'm a bit hesitant to use an all white bow as WHITEtail deer communicate with WHITE tails. However i'm still going to do it because i know i can. AHAH. Thanks!
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From: Andy Man
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Date: 26-May-23 |
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If with in bow range the sent was tolerated
It’s movement that will make or break it for you now
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From: Archer22
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Date: 26-May-23 |
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I have three ASLs with white glass on the belly and either black or green on the back. I've shot and killed two deer and had dozens in bow range without incident, except one time. I was about 22 feet up in my climber in a skinny bois d'arc tree with the sun setting behind me. The sun had that white glass almost glowing, it was so bright. The glare was going up into the trees at least.
A fawn came walking up from behind me with the bow laying in front of me on the upper rails of my climber. The fawn walked up within 10 yards of the bottom of my tree and looked straight up as if she knew I was there. I was not silhouetted, brushed in good, any glare off my bow was angled upward. I blamed that directly on the white glass on the belly of my bow. That's one occurrence out of numerous times I've had deer behind me with a white glass belly on my bow. That said, if I was building or buying a new bow, I'd skip the white glass for something more muted, green, brown, grey.
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From: Jeff Durnell
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Date: 26-May-23 |
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Yep, the sun, especially the late afternoon sun makes white glow like a beacon. One afternoon I was on the ground about 15 yards from some deer that just came in to me. About 25-30 yards behind me and 15' up a tree was another hunter with a small patch of his white t-shirt visible on his chest. The old doe spotted him in less than 15 seconds, snorted, stomped, and they all ran off. I turned around to see his little patch of white reflecting the sun like a spotlight. No white for me thanks. "Can" it work? Sure. Can it screw things up? Yep.
Why's them deer got all that white hair under their tales anyway? How's come natural predators have evolved to be camo'd in their environments? Scientists are baffled.
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From: Sunset Hill
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Date: 26-May-23 |
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I guess different approaches can be effective for different game animals and different hunting areas. Our local deer, elk, and bear don't have white-tails to flash. No white flashes to signal approaching danger. And there's no trees for me to climb to highlight me against the sun. And we have silvery sage and long dead grass for sun to shine and glare off of. So out here, white glass is fine
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From: Irish Archer
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Date: 27-May-23 |
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Probably depends on where you’re at, and what you’re hunting.
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From: strigif0rm3s
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Date: 11-Mar-24 |
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@Dman75 - breathing life back into this thread. I think the info i was trying to pull out of people that it DOESN'T matter if you have a white bow. Limit movement, and play the wind. Kind of what i wanted to hear. :) i love white glass and i dont see a big drawback from it. Don't think you need to cover your limbs.....
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From: Murph
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Date: 11-Mar-24 |
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For a couple years I went with white arrows. They worked fine. People made fun of me. Said they could see me from the road. Usually the deer would look at me and then start eating again and thats when I would let them have it. Its movement they can freak out on.
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From: Gun
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Date: 11-Mar-24 |
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......waiting for someone to post a pix of a really big Whitetail taken w a White Bow. Snow don't count.
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From: B.T.
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Date: 11-Mar-24 |
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White glass was an option for many years on the Bear TD in all 3 lengths. White arrows have been shot for a long long time…I shot white cedar arrows for 35+ years myself. I remember a very popular recurve bow from the sixties that had a black riser and white limbs, it was called a Black Widow bow. Zebras are black and white and so are skunks, but I thought deer only saw in black/gray/white? Where are the deer whispers when needed?
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From: Gary Savaloja
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Date: 11-Mar-24 |
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I have two. I covered my first real hunting bow, a Shakespeare Wonderbow. My mom made limbs covers from WWll parachute that my dad brought back.
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From: Gary Savaloja
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Date: 11-Mar-24 |
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Works in the fall to. At least I think it does
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From: David Mitchell
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Date: 11-Mar-24 |
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Fred Bear shot all white arrows because they showed up better when filming. He did pretty well with is hunting. LOL
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From: Lastmohecken
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Date: 11-Mar-24 |
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Wow! I have never had a white bow. I used to use white fletching, on arrows in a bow quiver. But I noticed that squirrels seemed to pick me off a lot quicker, so I quite except for maybe one arrow or something. Granted it was probably movement that got me, but I think the white made it easier to spot the movement.
Granted for deer hunting, or anything with a good nose, it's the scent that get you, most of the time.
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From: B.T.
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Date: 11-Mar-24 |
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I read a story about Hill and Shultz I believe, they had a yearly deer hunt and decided to build white bows, arrows and wore white clothes, I believe they still killed the most deer.? Someone here knows the story better than I do..
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From: strigif0rm3s
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Date: 11-Mar-24 |
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i'd love to hear that Hill story.
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From: Jimmyjumpup
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Date: 11-Mar-24 |
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If I was worried about it I would just spray paint em.
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From: Lastmohecken
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Date: 12-Mar-24 |
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I have often wondered about Howard Hill and White clothing. I know a lot of pictures I have seen of him were in black and white, but still, it often looks like he wore very light and solid clothing. Only a few pictures did I ever see of him in any kind of camo, but there were a few.
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From: Jimmyjumpup
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Date: 12-Mar-24 |
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These WV deer wouldn’t stand moving around the woods in white.
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From: two4hooking
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Date: 12-Mar-24 |
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Movement gets you busted. Lots of white in a deer and squirrel hide yet they are really hard to see unless they move.
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From: B.T.
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Date: 12-Mar-24 |
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Isn’t that John Shultz with his white bow and white arrows? Hill almost always wore light chinos and a white shirt for pictures, at that time it was considered very casual.
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From: Lastmohecken
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Date: 12-Mar-24 |
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You know, I was looking at some of these pictures, and it sort of dawned on me that, maybe a white shirt and darker pants or vis versa, breaks up the human form and might just work pretty good. Possibly better than full camo of all the same camo pattern which would show the human form possibly even more so.
Just food for thought.
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From: Babysaph
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Date: 12-Mar-24 |
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Not one dead WV deer in the pic:)
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