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I never like shooting the comp.....
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And right there is the reason I truly believeyou so often hear that people"don't have time" to practice.They just don't like dragging all that crap out for just a half hour, or even10 minutes of shooting. With a longbow or recurve, you just string it up, slip on your glove or tab and an armguard, grab a few arrows and step out the back door. By the time you've gotten the compound out, hung the stabilizer on it, made sure none of the screws and bolts were loose and got your release strapped on, a longbow shooter has already shot 20-30 arrows!
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...but I love shooting my long bow.
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When you enjoy doing something, you find you have plenty of time to do it. So, in those two respects, I feel fully confident in saying shooting a longbow is EASIER than shooting a compound.
At times, shooting a longbowcan beexasperating, frustrating, $%&@! stuff. Not as bad as trying to get that last little bit of tail left tear out when trying to paper tune a compound. But when it all comes together and all your arrows go right where you're looking, that's magical.
With a compound, you expect all the arrows to go 'right there.' That's why youspent all that money on all those doodads. When the arrows don't go 'right there' it takes all kinds of gyrations and gymnastics to find out which doodad is out of adjustment. Or could it possibly beYOU that's screwed up? With a longbow, it's pretty darn quick to find out. You check the brace height and nock point. If they're okay, then... It's you![8D]
But that's why the longbow is so much fun. You know when the arrow hits the mark that it was YOU that made it so. It wasn't the sights or the release, or the fancy dropaway rest, or the stabilizer, or this, that or the other. It was your own skill, luck or whatever that directed the arrow. When you make a good shot with a longbow, you don't have to share the credit with all those accessories. You get all the glory!
Now, the flip side of all that is, at first anyway, you'll be concentrating all your efforts to get proficient out to 20 yards before hunting season. So, all your hunting shots will be limited to 20 yards. No setting up your treestand with the expectation of taking 40-50 yard shots. As far as I'm concerned, that's the main advantage a compound has. Allowing an average shooter to take longer distance hunting shots.
And you won't be able to handle as much draw weight with a longbow. It certainly won't shoot nearly as fast. So none of that testosterone laced, chest thumping bragadocio about how fast your arrows blaze through a chronograph. I don't think it's an exaggeration at all to say 90% of guys shooting traditional have even a clue what their arrow speed is. Nor do they really care. That can be a bit of culture shock to folks coming from a compound background.
Anyway,to sum up, as pertaining topinpoint accuracy and distance, a longbow is harder to shoot than a compound. When it comes to convenience and just plain satisfaction, a longbow is easier to shoot than a compound.
The big thing is what kind of person are you? Are you someone who is mostly fascinated by metal, plastics, gears, space age design and making things as easy as possible? Or are you more in tune with fine woods and nature, someonewho loves a challenge? Are you a mechanic or an artist? A technical writer or a poet? Do you have a bit of gangsta in your blood or more a touch of Robin Hood?
Identifying your innerself... That goes a long way to figuring out how hard a longbow will be for you.
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