Beards

[Paul Harm]

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]

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 !

[MarketHunter]

Very cool.

[charlie cleveland]

would like to have seen that old gal with the 9 inch beard and wearing that sweater...charlie

[Paul Harm]

I wasn't offended - it would take a lot more than that to offend me. And I was just teasing about the modern stuff.