SwampCollie

Of course we have some great shooters on here. But there again, most of us practice a heck of a lot anyway.

Its the folks who AREN'T posting on this thread that we are concerned with. No attack intended, but we get new members almost everyday. Sort of like those anti-drug campaigns or mission's trips. If you just get one kid to say no, or one person to accept Jesus Christ as his savior, then its worth the effort. And if we can get one neophite or fair-weather bowhunter to practice just that little bit much more, than we will be improving/policing our own.

People who are just rotten hunters, and unethical in our eyes are going to be anyway. We aren't worried about converting the bad ones, we are concerned with making sure the new ones don't go bad.

W.T.F.

good thread from start to finish. My brother opened up a pizza shop 2 years ago and has not had much time at all to shoot his bow. Last year he wanted to take a couple of days off from work and come over my house and do some hunting. I asked him how much he had been shooting and he said he hasnt picked up his bow since last year.(My brother has been bow hunting for more than fifteen years and has taken 8 or 10 whitetail with his bow).He finally got the chance to get some practice in for about 3 weeks bfore he planned on hunting, when it came time for the hunt he decided he was not shooting good enough to hunt and went fishing for steelhead instead.

unfortunately a lot of so calledbowhunters would never even consider not going into the woods just because they didnt have time to practice. There are far to many hunters in the woods with the common sense of a tree stump and those are the hunters that give us all a bad name.

ArrowMike

Here’s some thing that every one could do. Try to educate the ones that you can. When you are out practicing and you see guys slinging arrows all over, try to help him or her out. This sound easy, but is not. Some people take great offence to help. They feel like you’re saying that they can’t shoot and there right. Because if they could shoot, you would not want to help. Talk to new archers and explain how to hunt ethically. And remember most people don’t like being preached to keep it light and friendly. And if you help just 1 that’s one more on our side. Just think if we all just helped 1 person a year how many that would add up to at the end of the year.

There are many ways to help our sport with out getting the government involved!