"The great primitive outer world is still unconquered, and there are impulses within the beast of man not yet measured, curbed and devitalized, which are the essential motives of life. Therefore without, without wantoness, and without cruelty, we shall hunt as long as the arm has strength, the eye glistens, and the heart thobs. Lead On!"
Posted by: catwoman-on Saturday, October 28, 2006 - 12:53 AM
By Linda Kistler Burch, copyright October 2006
A couple of years ago I wrote an article entitled "The Wild Eye"
concerning eye dominance and hunting, and the enormously grave consequences
of not paying the "Wild Eye" its proper heed. The Wild Eye is
your dominant eye, and that is the side you should shoot on. It is the
side where your predator instinct takes over. The primary reason you have
a dominant eye is, when your heart rate goes over 120 beats per minute,
which is nearly always the case when you are about to take a kill shot,
your dominant eye takes over. Like it or not, if you are shooting with
your non-dominant eye, you will not be as accurate. The dominant eye is
involuntary. You cannot control it. You are in bondage to it and you need
to accept that. As a Firearm Safety Instructor and Bowhunter Ed instructor,
I tell your these statements are not just my opinions. They are accepted
and proven facts, scientific facts even.
Posted by: TomBowBow-on Saturday, July 22, 2006 - 02:19 AM
Humans have been shooting bows and arrows for 100's if not 1000's of years. My theory is that someone decided that throwing spears at game was too much of a hit or miss proposition and "there's got to be a better way" crept into their thoughts. So the experimentation began, "how do I get a spear to fly straighter"? After much trial and error, the bow for casting the "spear" was born. Since that time, humans have been working on improving the overall system. When one improvement is made, providing a faster shooting arrow, a more stable-in-flight arrow or an improvement in how to hold the bow or how to aim, with the ultimate goal of higher accuracy in mind, someone else would think up another way to improve the system. Chalk it up to human ingenuity. "It works well, but there is a way to make it better".
Posted by: TomBowBow-on Sunday, September 18, 2005 - 03:12 AM
I tell you, you ask different bowhunters what the best (insert type of equipment here) is and there is a good chance that you'll get the same number of different answers as number of bowhunters asked. A lot of times, each bowhunter will tell you that their choice of equipment is the best and that all others choices aren't worth a pile of that stinky green stuff laying out in the cow pasture. As a frequent visitor to numerous website's discussion forums, I have seen it time and time again. Several people are saying "A (name of bow brand) bow is the sweetest shooting, most forgiving, fastest (blah, blah, blah) bow in the world.
Posted by: TomBowBow-on Saturday, September 17, 2005 - 09:33 PM
The fever rises in us all. This is the time of year when the focus switches strongly over to bowhunting. The pursuit of game using archery tackle holds a special place in our hearts because of the sights, smells, sounds and special challenges that it holds. Some of us have been focused since the last archery-deer season ended, shooting archery leagues all winter, and 3-D shoots since the snow melted early this spring. There are others who put their equipment away and don't get it out until the cool weather of early fall arrives. Either way, each bowhunter needs to get into serious preparation mode now. It's time to check out what needs to be done to get that bow ready to bring home the venison, or other quarry of choice.
Posted by: TomBowBow-on Saturday, September 17, 2005 - 09:25 PM
What is paper tuning? It's more than just shooting arrow through a piece of paper. It gives clues to changes that should be made to give you perfect or near perfect arrow flight.
