bowfishing challenge

imthbdmn · Posted: Tue, Nov 13 2007 05:44 pm Post subject: bowfishing challenge

Has anyone ever done a bowfishing tournement "spelling" on lavon or have any of ya'll competed in one? I'd love to set one up in the spring for fun and bragging rights.
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ScottB · Posted: Wed, Nov 14 2007 08:09 am Post subject:

I would give it a shot. No pun intended.

Liverpool_Fan · Posted: Wed, Nov 14 2007 10:58 am Post subject:

sounds really safe !!!! i'll just watch I think

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cheapersleeper · Posted: Wed, Nov 14 2007 12:34 pm Post subject:

It's serious fun Liverpool!! Why wait for fish when you can hunt thrm down and shoot them!!!

If this takes off, I will find a bow somewhere. My Dad stopped doing archery and I bet there is one around the house.
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Liverpool_Fan · Posted: Wed, Nov 14 2007 02:18 pm Post subject:

It's always fun til someone gets hurt..................then it's really fun............I think that was someone elses quote that I'm stealing.

I'm sure you guys know what you're doing, but it's best (for you guys) if I am not floating around at night carrying a bow and arrow !!

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polebender · Posted: Wed, Nov 14 2007 02:43 pm Post subject:

I got rid of my bow when we moved to TX...... This is very popular in LA. I still want to go on one of the gator hunting trips....
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cheapersleeper · Posted: Wed, Nov 14 2007 02:51 pm Post subject:

The only way to get hurt would be to swim around showing your pasty flesh in the lights in 2 feet of water....making carp noises.
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imthbdmn · Posted: Wed, Nov 14 2007 04:46 pm Post subject:

we'll I don't know how to set it up. but come spring I'll give it a heck of a try. Hey liverpool it's no more dangerous than fishing how many times have you been hooked? I've been hook several times but I've never shot myself or another with an arrow> HA!
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Skipper_Tx · Posted: Fri, Nov 16 2007 04:05 pm Post subject:

Liverpool_Fan wrote:

It's always fun til someone gets hurt..................then it's really fun............I think that was someone elses quote that I'm stealing.

I'm sure you guys know what you're doing, but it's best (for you guys) if I am not floating around at night carrying a bow and arrow !!

Was that Bennys Hills quote?
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Skipper_Tx · Posted: Fri, Nov 16 2007 04:06 pm Post subject:

imthbdmn wrote:

we'll I don't know how to set it up. but come spring I'll give it a heck of a try. Hey liverpool it's no more dangerous than fishing how many times have you been hooked? I've been hook several times but I've never shot myself or another with an arrow> HA!

LP you watch the WFN channel, that carp fishing tournament, and see those Brits in England fishing that square carp pond, with little fishing peirs all around it. And the annoucer doin a play by play, now thats funny.
Best part is , it takes place right by the pubs, where ya can get tankered.
Now that be some fun fishin, not havin to dodge the law and drink all the cold brews ya want.

When I was 12 had a neighbor that got a 25lb draw recurve that was busted on one end where it held the bowstring. So we cut it off the broken part and resized both end equally. We restrung it and he shot an arrow in the air to see how far it would go. Well, the arrow went so high we could not see it. He got scared and started running towards his house.
As he crossed the street to his house the arrow came down and stuck him right beside and up close to the side of his head down through his ear.
How lucky is that?
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I'm hopeing and praying cause today i'm due
To break the Lavon record WhooHoo!!!

At the Lake be back home after sundown

Bigcat Dave · Posted: Fri, Nov 16 2007 05:12 pm Post subject:

That's pretty dang lucky.

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imthbdmn · Posted: Fri, Nov 16 2007 07:27 pm Post subject:

if you shoot anything strait into the sky it will never hit you unless you move. Rotation of the earth makes it land in a different spot. But sound like a great shot to me I'd be prood of that scar.

Carp in england with play by play? LMAO
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muskyman · Posted: Mon, Nov 26 2007 09:41 pm Post subject:

As a physics teacher, I will say don't try shooting an arrow into the sky.

Remember there are hundreds of other factors that determine where the arrow comes down. Noone predicts the wind precisely.

Can you use crossbows in this type of contest? Or curve bows only? Count me in if I can get a weapon by then.

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imthbdmn · Posted: Tue, Dec 04 2007 08:52 pm Post subject:

crossbow works for me. as long as we shoot arrow at fish i'm in favor of anything. I'll repost and get things better organized when spring rolls around.
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Scott Sandy · Posted: Wed, Dec 05 2007 12:40 am Post subject:

shotguns or dynamite???? sounds about the same amount of sport. Hey, I got some batteries with some metal poles, that sounds like sport to me. I've also heard of gill nets, hhhhmmm, maybe a tourny there. Sorry guys, just can't be quite on this one, bow and arrow ain't no sport unless you're deer hunting: can't say "oh darn, that's not a keeper or that one's too big, i'll just release it. Just my opinion.

ScottB · Posted: Wed, Dec 05 2007 09:04 am Post subject:

Hitting a fish with a bow isn't very easy at all. You wont have many "limit" days for sure. If you are using what you kill I don't see any difference in bowfishing verses r&r fishing and keeping what you catch. Typically the species targeted by bow fishermen aren't targeted by rod and reel fishermen anyway with the exception of catfish and I haven't seen many opportunities to stick one with a bow. It's a sport like any other outdoor sport and it is a challenge. You should try it some time and see how hard it really is. I have gone out and shot 20 arrows and hit one. It's not like shooting fish in a barrel. And because it is a visual sport you aren't shooting undersized fish. You get to pick your shot.

imthbdmn · Posted: Fri, Dec 07 2007 12:40 am Post subject:

wow tree huggers in every corner. why would one sports man bash anyother sportsman. I'm a disabled veteran and if I couldn't draw a bow i'd use a crossbow. I don't use jug lines or trotlines but I would never bash a fellow fishermen regardless of his methods.

As all veterans and police have stated "I do not agree with one word you say but we will defend to the death your right to say it" I may not use your fishing method but will defend your right to use it. If it's not for you don't do it. At least leave the ones who like it in peace to do it. IMO
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