Leaving Skagway last night.

Alaska was awesome. Not a fan of cruises, that was my wife’s choice. But Alaska is very beautiful. Now to plan a hunt there. Victoria was our last stop and what a pretty city.

Over the course of 7 days, the following gentleman showed up & joined the shot challenge: @Jarrod Floyd@Ken Borst @Reg Tanner @Colton Deline @Kris Kok @Richard Davis @Michael Brasher The above archers will be mentioned in the next episode of "The Code of Traditional Archery" podcast, which has over 27,000 downloads. I want to mention that this 7 Day Instinctive Shot Challenge had over 189 comments over the course of the seven days, the support seen amongst the community is amazing. Well done! 🎉

This is always the elephant in the room when it comes to archery seasons, and I’m gonna say right away that a lot of you followed me know that I’m not against crossbows per se, but I do not believe they belong in conventional archery seasons for the reasons I’ve listed below. I was asked to write a short treatise for a large organization on my opinion of crossbows why simply because I saw the creation of the laws in Ontario in the 70s for archery only seasons, and I saw those seasons created and allowed in the very beginning simply because of the constraints and the difficulty required, whether with a compound recurve or longbow to hunt effectively for any game you had to get close it wasn’t the weapons inefficiency. It was its range and its distance and the competency required to be effective with them! Read below and fill your comments in. Cheers! Grant In the mid 70s here in Ontario- my father and his associates of the then Ontario Bowhunters association finally convinced the province and the wildlife Enforcement Branch/management branch to look at archery only seasons, and there were some fairly strict parameters apart from the obvious poundage/ equip limitations. The argument that won the day was simply that archery seasons were longer because it was more difficult to hunt with the weapon (and be successful) what they called at the time primitive weapon seasons. This was entirely based on a very specific skill set in having to get close because of the weapons range and effectiveness, it was just more difficult. It was never meant to be the easy way or the sure way. The BowHunter needed to get close - much closer than other weapon systems to be effective. Of course the compound is started surfacing around that time, but of course the compound was a much more basic compound than the compounds-the wheel bows produced today let off speed - sights etc. etc. crossbows were somewhat prevalent but nowhere near as much as they are today.. the problem across the board we have in the hunting community now is that technology rules the day essentially based all around success, and of course, the profit margin of those companies pushing success..

So over the holiday weekend my wife and I drove out to Ohio to pick up my new longbow from Derek Diruzza and boy is she a shooter green glass, Osage orange riser with a slab of G10 because it is a two piece. It is 46@ 28 and really likes a 55/60 arrow.