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Anonymous Mon 13 Nov 2017 00:32:50 No.1137403 View View Reply Original Report

I've been planning to start hunting again last year and finally got my bow license. I live in NYC and want to know if any of you guys have suggestions for:
>Good public land around Catskills
>Basic gear
>Recurve or Compound? Recommendation for good starter bow
>Tips

I used to go hunting a lot up until I was 14 or so, but stopped after my uncle got sick and couldn't take me any longer. We used to hunt on a friend's land. I'm basically starting from zero again and was looking for advice/help on starting up again.

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Anonymous Mon 13 Nov 2017 01:57:52 No.1137461 Report

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Recurve (or longbow) or compound is going to be a personal preference thing, both work, both are enjoyable to shoot. You'll get to a hunting standard of accuracy and consistency much faster with a compound and you'll probably be able to draw an adequate weigh for hunting right at the beginning, rather than needing to work up to 50# like you would with a trad bow.

Basic compound gear is a bow, arrows, arrow rest, sight + peep sight, D-loop and release aid. Everything should be from reputable (read: large, American) archery companies. You will spend significantly more getting into compound than trad.

Trad requires your recurve or longbow (PSE, Samick, Ragim and various others make entry level trad bows), a tab or glove, arm guard and arrows. You can install an elevated arrow rest on your bow or shoot off the shelf with a rug and strike plate.

Arrow choice is important for both. All arrows need to have the right amount of flex when you shoot them to fly straight (especially when you add in other variables like broadheads). They come in different stiffnesses, or spines, where a lower number (e.g. 340) means a stiffer arrow and a higher one (e.g. 500, 600) means a weaker one. Arrow selection for compound is relatively easier. Would recommend reading up on arrow selection/spine and bareshaft tuning (if you're thinking trad) and paper tuning (if you're thinking compound). As a beginner you won't have the consistency to bareshaft a trad bow, but tools like selection charts and the 3rivers spine calculator should get you in the ballpark.

Starter bows depends on trad vs compound and how much you want to spend.

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