8-9 SS Primitive Archery Season

  Raptor Archery in Hood River, OR features traditional or primitive bow hunting. Owner Ted Fry, knows just about everything there is to know about archery including when seasons open and how to prepare… particularly if it is primitive or traditional archery. “Here in Oregon, bear and cougar season just opened. Dear in California opened up 2 weeks ago and caribou up in Alaska is open now and Idaho 30 August. We are busy right now getting everybody ready. Human nature tends to be the last minute type stuff. So we are getting all the people ready who put it off and put it off and now they are in a panic and they needed now. How are you preparing people? Just making sure that they have the right arrows, the right bows, showing people how to sharpen broadheads, and how to prepare themselves so that they can do the best job when they have the opportunity to shoot and their preparedness is up to date. Do primitive hunters repair exactly the same as compound bow people? Well sort of. They have to have the same concept and the same basic principles but the primitive goddess or the traditional guys have a lot more work to do, like we have to sharpen our broadheads, you buy them in a package and they are not pre-sharpened like the modern archery stuff, so you have to file them and stone them and get them sharp and all of the preparedness is you doing that but that is what I tell people is that is what makes it more important when you are successful is the preparation that you put into it, then that reward comes back  to you because you did more rather than having somebody else do it for you.