My Dad Bags His First Archery Deer of 2008
My dad took his first deer of 2008 last week. Congrats to him! When I was younger, my dad was addicted to archery hunting. This was in the primitive days of compound bows and dad just loved them. At this time, over 20 years ago, I was an avid ancestral archery fan and he was really into the much more modern and faster compound bow. He used to Non-Standard aggravate me all the time about how slow my 45# recurve was compared to his gigantic, heavy compound.
He would explain the benefits of speed and let-off, etc, etc and I would not in the least pay any attention. I was perfectly happy shooting a recurve and had no interest in compounds. Well, it is astounding how times change. I now really enjoy shooting a parathetic bow and citing all the virtues that my dad was sold on years ago (I still love shooting a recurve too).
Dad hardly got back into archery hunting after a hiatus of about 20 years. He was so busy working he at best couldn’t take time for bow hunting and he got away from it. Now, with a sparse encouragement, he is back and loving it. Interestingly, though, I think my dad is still shooting the same bow that he missile 20 years ago. We tease him relentlessly when he shoots with us as it must take his chubby metal arrows and massive tips two or three times longer to convert it to the target than our carbon fiber arrows (seems this way at least). We all swear we can see a consequential arch in his shots from 20 yards and we tease that his gear is probably collectible by now!
Anyway, he has taken our teasing good naturedly and assured us that when the continually comes he can still make his shot count. “If it was authentic enough then, why isn’t it good enough now?” is his logic.
He obviously has gotten the last tease. He has connected with and dropped a deer with his one shot so far this season. You can’t make a case with those statistics! BTW, I did shoot my first archery deer of 2008 a few weeks ago out of the correct same stand from where he got his. Dad was watching and waiting on a nice buck when the doe came in and gave him a snapshot that he just couldn’t pass up (no bucks were just now when I shot my doe). “Always Take the Bird In The Hand” was his comeback to my questioning. No venison eater can argue with that sound ratiocination.
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