thesource - Personal ........... not really. This is internet message boards, nothing can really be personal, can it ?
MasterBlaster said
I agree 100%. I believe that someone who hunts with a weapon that is so hard for him to be accurate with has Very poor ethics.
My response was to him, not you though, my apologies for the confusion on that.
However, this is actually a very good thing to discuss. Why ? The results of my last 3 years of hunting has really changed my outlook on bowhunting and archery. Trad is radically different than compounds. And I'm not throwing that in their to bash compounders, its just what my experience has been. Theres a aura around trad hunters that we miss/wound a lot. Is it true ? For newbies yeah, I think it is. The more experienced Trad hunters less so. Its a whole different ballgame
What is accuracy ? Should we ......... or do we, really want archery based on a shooting test or something like that ? Theres so many variables that it would be disasterous for bowhunting.
But yet on the other hand, how good is the type of shooting I've had for archery ? Do I reflect negatively on the sport ? If so, why ?
Want a deeper question to answer ? If its true that shooting trad = greater numbers of miss/wounds, and if thats bad, then we NEED compounds becauase they're inherently more accurate in the hands of a bowhunter. Right ? We're essentially saying that the easier bowhunting weapons is MORE desireable because it reduced misses and wounds and thats GOOD for archery. So what about the crossbow ? If its as easy as ya'll make it out to be, why wouldn't we WANT that in archery season too based on the same reasons ?
There are no easy answers and yes, I can line item away your post to make my shooting results look bad for me. They ARE bad, each miss could have been a wound, and no one is responsible for that but me, and no one knows it or understands it more. But what would you have me do thesource ? Practice more ? I practice almost daily through the summer, vastly more than the average archer. CHoose my shots better ? Each shot I took would have been 100% kills with a compound - they were good shots that went wrong because I was shooting a more difficult weapon. So what would you have me do, go back to a compound for good ? If so why and based on what (you can see where that could go, can't you ?)
Not easy questions to find answers for ............ yet I encourage every bowhunter to try because in the end, pondering those questions and heck, even use my shooting stats for an example if ya'll want to, those WILL MAKE everyone who has to think WHY on it all better off in the long run.