My dad was a deer hunter.
Big time.
I didn't enjoy hunting all that much, but I did go with him whenever I could, just to spend time with him. (I stopped hunting at around 15, when I killed an 18-point buck on the last Saturday of deer season.)
Even though I didn't enjoy killing things, I did like camping, eating junk food and spending time with my dad. At around age 10, I found something else I loved about the outdoors.
Archery.
My dad was, of course, a bowhunter, and at a sports show one year, I won a very nice compound bow. I started going with my dad to weekly bow tournaments and occasionally, I fared okay. Trophies didn't matter, though, I just thought shooting a bow was cool.
Since we've living with my in-laws while waiting to move in to the new house, I've been perusing my father-in-law's hunting magazines. Imagine my surprise to find that compound bows don't look like they used to.
They look like this:
Big time.
I didn't enjoy hunting all that much, but I did go with him whenever I could, just to spend time with him. (I stopped hunting at around 15, when I killed an 18-point buck on the last Saturday of deer season.)
Even though I didn't enjoy killing things, I did like camping, eating junk food and spending time with my dad. At around age 10, I found something else I loved about the outdoors.
Archery.
My dad was, of course, a bowhunter, and at a sports show one year, I won a very nice compound bow. I started going with my dad to weekly bow tournaments and occasionally, I fared okay. Trophies didn't matter, though, I just thought shooting a bow was cool.
Since we've living with my in-laws while waiting to move in to the new house, I've been perusing my father-in-law's hunting magazines. Imagine my surprise to find that compound bows don't look like they used to.
They look like this:
When I first saw it, I figured I was seeing a new bowhunting prototype, but it turns out that most of them look like this now.
While I am thouroughly impressed by the overall futuristic nature of this precision killing machine, it does seem a far cry from the simple little wooden weapons in those history-book-drawings-of-Indians, doesn't it?
So, did any of YOU know that bows look like this now?
Do any of you care?
