If Rick Snell can't harvest it with a traditional recurve bow, then it wasn't meant to be harvested.
Stor y by T.L . SIMPSON Photos by LIZ CHRISMAN
At least that's what he'll tell you. "It's been a lifelong passion of mine," Snell says. "My dad was a hunter all my life. It was a part of my family, so I started hunting at an early age. I started shooting a bow when I was five or six years old.” There’s gratification in harvesting a big game animal but more if you can harvest it with a weapon of your own design. Snell has been shooting a recurve bow most of his life, but not too long ago he began making them himself. “I used to make my own arrows all the time,” he says. “I got to tinkering around and wondering about building bows. Now, it’s basically a hobby of mine. I build them as guys want them.” Snell makes two models -- the Snell Silent Stalker I and the Snell Silent Stalker II.
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ABOUT the RIVER VALLEY ~
NOVEMBER 2020
