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West Virginia |
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Traditional Bowhunters of Southern West Virginia www.tbswv.com |
www.bgproshop.com (Dart System) |
JBC Archery in Shady Springs
(304) 763-3109
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| This interview was conducted with Bobby Graham Jr., president of Traditional Bowhunters of Southern West Virginia |
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| We promote traditional archery in the southern region of West Virginia in several ways. Our club is proud to donate to the Archery in Schools program for several of our local county schools. We also have participated in other social drives such as Relay for Life, St. Judes progam, and local events to help out fellow members or archers. We promote our sport by hosting club shoots, attending other archery shoots, working with local 4H clubs teaching children to shoot, and hosting a large event called ATAR (Appalachian Traditional Archery Rendevous) which draws a large crowd of shooters, speakers, vendors, and spectators to view or participate in our beloved sport. |
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| We recruit new members mainly by word of mouth by our membership. We have a website that people can use to contact us if interested also. We try to tell everyone we run across who shoots a bow, used to shoot a bow, or wants to shoot a bow about our club, and personally invite them to come and share a traditional range at least once. |
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I personally see archery still growing in the next 30 years. Like with every sport or recreation, there will be peaks and valleys, but I believe that in a whole, traditional archery is where the majority of people started. It will always hold a familiarity to it that is always a fond memory or welcoming in many minds, and with that, it will always be thought of and gone back too. Including children of today in our sport, even just shooting will ensure the future of our sport for generations to come.
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| An average person can contact just as many people day to day as a celebrity spokesman can. If the average person will just take the time to share some insight, wisdom, or just talk for a bit on archery and how it makes them feel, they will create more of a bond than a figure that is out in the public eye can. Average people are who built the legacy of traditional archery by their hard work, hunting genius, and plain welcoming personalities. Fred Bear wasn't a clothes model, but from all I've read and seen, he had a very personable attitude, and people liked that about him, he made them feel no matter who they were, they were a friend. |
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| I would suggest in WV, that they hunt whitetail deer in one of our four bow-hunting only counties. The deer over all the state are great to hunt, but our four archery only counties have really been producing some very nice deer. |
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| I would have to say, just this hunting season for this year has been my best and I think most memorable for my life. I didn't harvest any record deer, but I did kill a very large doe and a big bodied spike deer. This season overall hunting, I have enjoyed every day I was out, whether it was the days I killed the deer or not, I had a great time each day I was blessed to walk in the woods. I started to want to hunt again, that feeling had left me last year and I'm glad it didn't appear this year. |
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| Both, I have taken animals with both, I have shot both at archery shoots. I tend to favor longbows, but I really like the new recurve I recieved prior to the season, using it to shoot one deer, then putting longbows limbs on the same riser and taking a doe deer two weeks later. I just love to shoot. |
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 We are looking for ideas to promote and grow traditional archery. Please Email Del Jolly if you have ideas or want to help.
deljolly@trendintrad.com
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