Jody A, I guess you miss understood me. No, I haven't hunted with trad before, but plan to from here on. I am just getting into the new found style of hunting, if that is approved by you? Otherwise, I will continue to practice nearly every day and try to get better, that way, I will learn my bounderies by season.

Like I said earlier, I am not here to argue and I really shouldn't be typing this but you have sort of touched a nerve with me. We all are hunters here and should stand behind each other in anything we are trying to accomplish. You are acting as if we are ignorant to hunting and just go out and shoot whatever moves with whatever equipment we pick up, without blowing the dust off of it from last season. I don't believe you should judge a person by wanting to get into another way of hunting.

Yes, we know we have to practice. Yes, we know we have to learn our boundaries over a significant amount of time, not just a weeks worth of shooting. Since I put my string on my bow 7 days ago, I have shot nearly 450-500 times in 6 days. the only day I haven't shot was yesterday. About 95% of my shots were inside 15 yards. I am still not confident enough to go any further. I am improving, but slowly.

All I am asking is to give us a little benefit of the doubt. I know there are some hunters out there that are irrational and are aren't very good sportsman, but I really don't believe many of those types of peoplewould be on a traditional archery forum asking for advice. Don't be so quick to judge someone that is trying to learn something new, especially a fellow hunter.

Too much typing [:-]