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Gerald McPherson
02-15-2017, 08:59 AM
I like this so I think you may too. Made from an old mirror. From Georgia Outdoors News.

Paul Harm
02-15-2017, 09:26 AM
The mirror looks great but why would someone include the modern wheel bow :eek:and the space age garbage on the other side of it ?:shock:

Dean Romig
02-15-2017, 09:30 AM
Very cool! I really like that 'Old Time" look to it.

And speaking of beards - a few days ago a small flock of turkeys crossed the road in front of me and with them was a big ol' hen with about a 9" or 10" beard.
There was a bearded hen running the woods and fields where I hunt in VT for about four years and all the hunters in the area agreed not to shoot her, even though it would be perfectly legal to do so.






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Gerald McPherson
02-15-2017, 10:00 AM
Yeah Paul; He needs an 8 gauge Parker to display with that. Dean : That hen would be very cool. I thought I had killed one last year but it turned out to be a gobbler.

Phil Yearout
02-15-2017, 11:54 AM
Love the rack! I have never understood hunting with a bow that is basically a gun with a string on it, but I guess that's just me.

Dean Romig
02-15-2017, 11:59 AM
It is using a 'primitive' weapon to take big game animals at distances that woodcock and grouse are taken at. Extreme patience and skill are required to be successful.





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Angel Cruz
02-15-2017, 12:08 PM
The mirror looks great but why would someone include the modern wheel bow :eek:and the space age garbage on the other side of it ?:shock:

Maybe they were taken by bow and arrow??

Phillip Carr
02-15-2017, 01:40 PM
I like it. Nice display of some great beards.

Paul Harm
02-15-2017, 02:18 PM
Phil, next time you go bird hunting take a long bow and see how successful you are. Michigan Bowhunters puts on a pheasant shoot every year where we all go with bows. Although any bow is allowed, everyone has a recurve or longbow - compounds just aren't suited to quick shoots. After lunch we get out the shotguns to get everything we missed. Out of about 50 guys only anywhere from 4 to 10 birds were taken with the bows. I'll guarantee a bow isn't a gun with a string on it. I do have friends who have taken turkey with a bow. All of them were sitting in a blind. Those turkey eyes are a little too good to be sitting in the open and trying to draw a bow.

Phil Yearout
02-15-2017, 03:38 PM
Paul,

Sorry; didn't mean to ruffle any feathers (so to speak). I wasn't referring to long bows or even recurves, and I don't doubt the skill required for success with one. In fact, I've shot a few myself and enjoyed it, and although I have never been a bow hunter I've seen a few here and there that I thought about owning. I guess to me those are sort of the sxs's of bows, while the new stuff made of space age materials with wheels, sights, release triggers, etc. (hence the guns with a string comment) are the Benelli autos. Nothing wrong with them if that's what you like; just not for me. No intent to offend. Hang a long bow on that rack and I'm all about it :)!

Steve Cambria
02-15-2017, 04:11 PM
[QUOTE=Dean Romig;211864]Very cool! I really like that 'Old Time" look to it.

And speaking of beards - a few days ago a small flock of turkeys crossed the road in front of me and with them was a big ol' hen with about a 9" or 10" beard.

Okay Deanno, I'll bite. Was she the one holding the tennis racquet? :whistle:

Dean Romig
02-15-2017, 04:24 PM
[QUOTE=Dean Romig;211864]Very cool! I really like that 'Old Time" look to it.

And speaking of beards - a few days ago a small flock of turkeys crossed the road in front of me and with them was a big ol' hen with about a 9" or 10" beard.

Okay Deanno, I'll bite. Was she the one holding the tennis racquet? :whistle:


No, but come to think of it, she did have a sweater tied around her shoulders with a big PA on it. :cool:






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Destry L. Hoffard
02-16-2017, 09:57 PM
Very cool.

charlie cleveland
02-17-2017, 06:19 PM
would like to have seen that old gal with the 9 inch beard and wearing that sweater...charlie

Paul Harm
02-20-2017, 07:58 AM
I wasn't offended - it would take a lot more than that to offend me. And I was just teasing about the modern stuff.