myself I use abear recurve and i do shoot year round and i have used the ole way's for as long as i have been hunting it's the way i was taught and comfortable with. Since I have been here on the hunting net I haven't really thought any one was a get a high tec bow one day and say they are a bowhunter.I will admit there is alot of high tec stuff out there and i tease people time to time about if they are ever going to give up their training wheel's and in return i get it as when am i going to come out of the stone age.But if a guy need's or want's the high tec and will help them in the hunt then great I do agree not enough practice and if they do it's for a week before the season open's and think because they put a couple arrow's into the target that they are ready we owe it to the animal's we hunt and to the sport to be at our best and one week dont make it in my book.