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TradBowhunter-Ethical Predator

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Bowhunters Shot of the Week
Our BowHunting shot challenge this week is a shooters choice! 🎯 Showcase your favorite shot for practice and make it a cold shot! 🏹 1- Position 2- Distance 3- What are you shooting? Longbow/recurve/selfbow? 4- Where your from! You can win a waterproof vinyl Traditional Bowhunter decal just for joining in! 🦌 Get shootin! 🎯 -Grant
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I'm taking a shot in my minds eye. Its from a saddle (18 feet high), 15 yards quartering away with my long bow. Headed in for chemo session 3 in our fully loaded for the storm jeep in a pretty good snow storm so all kinds of challenges for me today. Happy shooting guys you never know what tomorrow will bring so embrace every moment.
Jalapeño Venison Breakfast Sliders
Happy Thanksgiving breakfast! Hell of a way to start the day. Jalapeño Venison Breakfast Sliders Ingredients •Two small venison tenderloins (Meat volume depends on the animal your working with as you know. You can also use back strap and or roast meat. Again volume will dictate how much you have to cook.) •Coarse Kosher salt •Coarse Pepper •Meat Church Blanco •Meat Church The Gospel All-Purpose Rub •Farm Fresh Eggs (one per slider) •Vermont Sharp White Cheddar Cheese - One large Jalapeño - One Clove of Garlic - Fresh Rosemary - 2 Sticks of Unsalted Butter - Virgin Olive Oil Biscuits You can go two directions here. You can make biscuits from scratch and that will set the stage for really tasty sliders. With that said I often use Pillsbury Grands! Buttermilk Biscuits and they are really good. You have to decide how much time you want to invest especially if your cooking in hunt camp. Timing is up to the cook so biscuits are hot when you dress them so the cheese melts. Preparation Prep the tenderloins the night before by cleaning them of all silver skin. Pat dry and rub salt, pepper, on all sides and place in dish. Sprinkle with a pretty heavy hand on all sides with Meat Church Blanco and Gospel All-Purpose Rub. Crush rosemary sprigs and press into top of tenderloin. Cover dish and let sit overnight in ice box. In a deep cast iron pan like a dutch oven, heat olive oil and 1-1/2 sticks of butter and a few sprigs of crushed rosemary and crushed garlic. When the oil is hot enough to be almost at smoke point, flash sear the tenderloins on all sides. True tenderloins are 3 sided usually. Brown the outside without over cooking them. Heat and time will depend on the size of the tenderloin. Use our best judgement but don’t over cook. As the tenderloin comes off the heat, sit aside and let rest for 10 to 15 minutes. Prep a cast iron fry pan and hard fry your eggs. One per slider. Slice cheese, enough to cover the top of each slider. Slice jalapeño and remove seeds unless you like it really hot. Place jalapeño slices on top of cheese.
Jalapeño Venison Breakfast Sliders
Sticking with Tradition🦅
Why did you choose stickbow hunting over compound bows? Share your personal journey with us! ​
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I didn't, I shoot them all. I shoot long bow, recurve and a high tech ILF Gillo barebow. There is a public hunting program at Banshee Reeks Nature Preserve that only allows compound bows so I purchased the latest Hoyt AX2. I also have a small group of older men like me that shoot the R100 3D shoots and they all shoot compound so I take my training wheel bow. Yes my first love is my long bow from Mr. Toelke but I enjoy all aspects of archery. Now that I'm retired and have lots of free time I find myself working at Double X Archery in Leesburg Virginia about 3 days a week teaching youth recurve. They have a wonderful indoor range and are a JOAD USA Archery facility. I do get the occasional kid that wants to only shoot compound and I do not discourage them. If I can hook a kid with a stick bow that's really my lane but a kid in archery means the sports lives on through the generations. I'm here on this board for a reason, traditional archery but I like the challenge of being handy in all aspects of our sport.
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I love archery in all its forms. I do prefer trad shooting, both hunting and target. If I had to give percentages I'm 75 precent traditional. I always kill my first deer with my longbow or my recurve. I have a rather large circle of archery friends. I'm a bow tech and instructor at Double X Archery in Leesburg Virginia. I also belong to a few clubs and I'm a standing member in the VBA, PBS and USA Archery. Don't hate me I do hunt with compound and also do a fair amount of 3d shoots with my compound. I started shooting when the recurve was about as high tech as it got.
Ethics
I've been traditional bow hunting since I was about 15 years old. I'm almost 74 now. I've also been a taxidermist here in Wyomg for 52 years and before that in Alaska where I also worked every fall for outfitters as a packer/ wrangler. My last bow harvest really bothered me a lot. I got very emotional about the deer suffering from a marginal hit. Now im having bad dreams about it. . I'm ready to quit hunting. I love hunting. Oh well. Getting old in Wyoming.
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Jim I think that your talking about this in a public forum says a lot about you. I admire this a great deal. Wise people do this and if need be make changes. So now with that said and one old guy to another, shooting a bow is a perishable skill. Any shooting sport is and thats why there are categories of competitions usually age graded. I'm so close to 70 lets just say I'm there! So I have some insight as to what your dealing with. I started bow hunting in the 60's and I have never let up. I'm also an archery addict and have been a target shooter as well as a hardcore hunter and I've used every platform in archery. I still shoot a lot of 3D in the summer and indoor in winter. I'm the VBA 2025 Senior State Champion in long bow. In traditional recurve I'm ranked 2nd in the nation for U.S.A. Archery Senior Indoors. I tell you all of this because there are other things you can pursue in archery. There comes a time when each hunter has to make this decision for themselves. Two years ago after a lifetime of motorcycling I had to say enough and I stopped riding and sold everything. This year after an entire summer of hardcore scouting and my long awaited full retirement into nothing but archery I was diagnosed with stage 4 esophageal cancer. I have 6 months to a year to live with treatment. That took care of my hunting season for 2025 in a big way. So don't dwell on the runway behind you. You already know the answer to your question. I do encourage you to take this moment of a life well spent in pursuit of game and challenge yourself to perhaps take up target shooting. Maybe even become a mentor to get young people started in archery and hunting. I did this at the local indoor range and have found it to be richly rewarding. Download that epic resume of yours and share it where it matters most. Hats off to you sir and fair winds to your back. Good luck and god speed.
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@Jim Marsico would love to sit at that campfire with you and talk. Let us know what you do next.
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Virginia Piedmont area. In the village of Bluemont high in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
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@Jenn Richardson yes I was a photojournalist for 44 year's and still shoot for some select client's. At the moment I'm documenting and writing about my journey with cancer.
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Douglas Graham
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Archery has been my passion since I picked a bow up in 1968.

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Bluemont, Virginia
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