@Jarrod Floyd …took a nice 250# black bear with my WW Black Elk @50# a season ago…awesome shooting bow…rigged another riser with longbow limbs…good shooter as well…

@Grant Richardson …I had a mid 80s 2800 Hunter that I loaned to a fella…never saw it again…another in the early 90s and yet another from the early 2000s, that my Son currently has…all 55# and all with a high wrist grip from the Martin factory…great bows…sweet and smooth…Ill have to get another from the new DH…the curves and the lines are just friggin sexy…will have to drool over the winter for one…

…My Grandson took a tasty morsel on the trip…his first…from the shot to the gutting, dragging, hanging and butchering and in the freezer…he did it all under the supervision of his Uncle, and me offering expert commentary while sipping a cold Modelo…!

….ahhhh…that thing called life…the real world…kinda gets in my way from time to time….like ending the trip and packing and flying and waiting and flying and getting back and having to deal with the crud from work, and the crud I caught on the plane or the airports…finding that TSA broke into my bowcase to make sure there wasnt a bazooka or something hidden there and then repacking it all to roach the fletchings on some of my arrows…outside of that, Id give my left nut to have a couple more days with those that I care so much for…my Son scored a nice bear….my Grandson scored his first deer….and I got nuthin………NUTHIN BUT A GOOD TIME….!…despite the time and the money spent, the highs and the lows, the whats and the what ifs, the rest of the story is I watched my youngest Grandson and his flag football team, the COWBOYS, smoke their competition in their first game of the season…!….watching my GrandDaughter growing up faster than I can keep up, with a great car she bought and all the straight A’s she can muster plus a part time job to support going offshore for an awesome school trip next year, my Son and his Bride blasting it out week after week to make the American Dream happen week after week for their household…its astonishing that anyone would consider an empty game bag less than success when all anyone has to do is look around you…the flourish is all about………….I ain't the religious sort, but I would say I am blessed…

…been using the blue Bohning hot melt for some time now…never a failure in my use…

…thats a ded bahr rhat thar…!

…my Grampa shot recurve…and as a kid (way back when ), Id listen to his tall tales of hunts and equipment of a long ago burgeoning sport…he taught me to round squares and make good shafts and how to strip quills and fletch arrows…watched him one time shooting in the basement and his arrow struck a pole and rebound and strike him in the belly…he walked up the basement stairs with that arrow stuck in him and holler to my Dad that there was a problem…Grandma freaked…long story short, he was takin in and treated for a non life threatening wound…to this day, so vivid in my mind…but it didnt scare me away, and it didnt scare him off either…we chatted and conversed and shared all through the years, and he recounted all that he had shared with with me to my young Son when he came of an age of understanding…sooooooo perfect it was, and still is despite losing him some years ago….Im sure Grampa is with us each and every step into the great outdoors…he had told us thru many clean kills and many shared meals…