Five Reasons We Love and Hate Bowhunting

By Jason Reid

By Jason Reid

(Rochester, NY) No matter how much you love archery, archery won’t always love you back. Much like the “Its complicated” status button on Facebook, many archers have their peaks and valleys with the pursuit. We go back again and again and again to the point where the madness of shooting is the painful love we seek. For those committed to the pursuit of excellence in the craft, your bow might love you back only for a few moments in the entire calendar year. As the sun beat down and sweat streamed down my face as I wrapped up another humid session of shooting in my backyard, I realized five reasons archery drives us crazy are also the same reasons we love it so much.

OCD: The worst feeling in the world as a bowhunter is to be guessing where your arrow is going to fly. After waiting 11 months since last season, the last thing you really want are surprises. On the range all summer, the journey to hitting the quarter sized dots at every imaginable distance between 10 yards and whatever your max range is, does not help any underlying case of OCD. Even …Read the Rest

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