WITH BOW AND ARROW – AN ANCIENT PURSUIT
Each age has its own trends, but bow hunting has virtually always existed, and is now enjoying something of a renaissance. The feeling of drawing a powerful bow, releasing the arrow towards the target and hearing it strike home with a powerful thud, sends you back to childhood adventure stories. If you had forgotten what it was like to be filled with childish happiness, you suddenly remember it again. And this joy we feel is for a reason. If it did not exist, we would probably never have felt the urge to become hunters. The joy is the starting point, and later comes depth and sobriety, when we go from practising on a target to shooting an animal. The joy is still there after a successful shot, but with added dimensions. The silence as we creep around in the woods or along the windbreak brings us closer to what we are doing. The calm and slowness keep us in the moment. If we force things, the hunt will fail. You might think that this form of hunting is only rarely likely to succeed, and you would be right to some extent. It requires a lot of training – not only in the archery, but in moving around in the right way, so that the quarry does not notice our presence. After countless attempts in which we have heard the roe deer’s ‘bark’ as it warns the rest of the forest, and have had to retreat back to civilisation in disappointment – finally one day everything falls into place. When we come home, we don’t want to meet a spouse who says, “wow, that was lucky”. No, we are masters for a moment! Until next time, when we fail again. Only bow hunters knows this feeling of intensity, when you stand so close to your prey, when you bag it – the gentle rush it gives when you release the arrow and hear it pierce the animal with precision. This is a moment which can only be carried in your heart – nothing compares to it.
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