Lost a shooter

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Intheshop

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My right arm,partner in crime...stickbow shooting bud passed away on Saturday.

He was a legend on the East coast.Helped raise all of the Smith bros,from diapers...including some Gbabies,to become frontline traditional archery junkies.The boys and I are going to the next shoot,a little heavy in heart...but will celebrate in his honor.

He wore out doing exactly what he wanted to be doing.Shooting his bow and talkin chit to me....and anyone else consumed with pulling a bow string....doh.
 
RBHarter

RBHarter

West Central AR
Sorry to hear that .......
Been a lot of that going around in my circles lately it doesn't help any but I'm told it happens as you get older ......
 
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Intheshop

Banned
Thanks guys.

His wife asked everyone to bring an old arrow to lay in his casket.I was a little nervous being the first there.....they had his bow,strung and an arrow laid with him.So I didn't know what to do?So laid the 1970 fibre glass arrow at his side,thinking this a touch weird,and knowing him,kinda funny.

No sooner than that,turning around there's a line of bow shooters.....a really looong line,each with an arrow.Didn't stay but,they might not get the lid to close?

I did get a chance,cpl tourneys ago to tell him how much he meant to everyone.So,sorry for sounding like a dad or getting all sappy......tell your "peeps" you love'm.Try to enjoy yourself and those around you.Take a kid shooting and pass on the tradition.BW
 
KeithB

KeithB

Resident Half Fast Machinist
What a great tribute! We're not that different from our prehistoric ancestors are we? When my sister died I put a four leaf clover in her hands in her coffin. I've the unusual ability to spot four leaf clovers, it's something we would do as kids, looking four four leafers. I would give her one before a school test, a date, and other life events.

You're friend will face eternity well armed by his friends.

Yes, a great and meaningful tribute.
 
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Intheshop

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Keith,with the smell of burning feathers wafting through the shop today.....a line of Bitzenburger fletching jigs,the first of which I got from my friend almost 40 years ago...are all in action.Getting ready for a big shoot.

I dug out some old,matching woodys,from barrels of arrows.Got one for each of us....gonna launch them into the sky,for our friend.The boys want to light them....doh.They can't do anything halfarsed.We'll see,haha.
 
Pistolero

Pistolero

Well-Known Member
As we age, this becomes more and more our fate to suffer. I always wondered if nearly all his friends
and my mother being gone wasn't a big piece of why my father didn't seem to enjoy his last years all
that much. Losing friends and family is hard.

All I can say, is remember the good times.

Bill
 
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