Welcome to the Vortex Nation podcast brought to you by lovers of hunting, shooting, public

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All right everybody, we are back now with Clay still, he's still with us, so that's

a good sign.

Mark and I haven't completely driven him mad yet, but in actually Mark and I get to show

off our bows if you're watching on video right now, we have them here, they've dried from

their spar urethane treatment, we've given them a couple of coatings, we'll probably

end up giving them more when we get back home, but this is kind of how they've turned

out, and Clay has been helping us attempting to help us learn how to shoot these things.

Because there's just a lot of unique little oddities and quirks to shooting a traditional

bow and doing it well, and I think it's one of those things that nobody can really ever

say that they've perfectly mastered, like many things on earth, at least hopefully I

would make me feel a little bit better if that were the case, but what's the fun and completely

mastering it, Jim?

That's right, that's right, then the challenge is going to get to find something else,

but the challenge I would say certainly is not gone even for Clay, because we've gone

out and we were stump shooting a lot today, we were tuning bows, that's something we got

to talk about today, we did a little stump shooting, we'll explain what that is, and a lot

of learning along the way about form, and even just the arrows themselves, all kinds

of stuff, and also maybe how we would wind up using them in a hunting setting, Clay's explained

a lot of that, because he's used these bows and tons of different hunts, and so yeah, Clay,

maybe I guess where we'd start here, what is unique to shooting a traditional bow versus

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