Going into my second year of traditional archery I am amazed at how it has changed my views on hunting...... I have fallen in love with archery again.... Just pure archery... It's a beautiful thing..... I find myself so much less concerned with killing something..... I can't even stomach to flip through a main stream hunting magazine..... It actually makes me nautious(sp) seeing what the sport has become.... And I was right there just 2yrs ago, caught up in all the BSthe main stream hunting industry shoves down your throat.... You can't really see it until you seperate yourself from such things.... I haven't watched the outdoor channel in over a year...... I used to be a 4 night a week fan.....I still get the 4 big bowhunting magazines and they never leave the post office.... I throw them straight in the garbage...... That's really all they are, garbage....

If you sink yourself into traditional archery, it will change you as a hunter and even a possibly change you as a person..... Sure, I still haveplans and desiresto hunt big game all across the country, but my outlook on those hunts have been re-prioritized......

In the end, ask yourself what you want out of archery or hunting..... Your answer to that question will lead you down the path that you were designed to be on....... And I agree with BobCo19-65 in his post above, traditional archers will eventually find themselves coming over to our side, no matter where they are at this point.... I'm a case in point.... I come from the new generation.... I'm 29 yrs old and all I know is compounds..... I started shooting at 10 yrs old or so..... Began bowhunting at 12..... Killed my first deer at 14 and then killed 2-3 per year until finally it became no challenge for me..... If I wanted a deer to die, it died..... All the deer had to do was get in bow range..... I lost that rush of adrenaline and pride you get when you kill an animal with a bow..... It had become to automatic...... Draw, aim, shoot, go get animal.... I always had that yearning to go traditional..... I kept it hidden for years...... Scared I may miss out on an opportunity to kill a large buck that would be out of trad bow range..... Finally it dawned on me, its not the outcome that means the most in our lives, its the journey...... If you work your butt off for something, the gratification is amazingly sweet.....

Like I said, traditional or compound...... Decide what you want out of hunting..... The rest will fall into place....