ORIGINAL: LBR
Burbaust, I didn't get the pm's--sorry--or if I did I don't remember it, and they aren't in my box now.
I agreed with a lot of what you said there. However, in the right hands, a traditional bow can be just as deadly as a compound bow. I'm not saying that I'm one of those people, but for someone like LBR, I would bet he could outshoot a good number of people using compounds, using one of his trad bows.
I'm not that great, but let me pick the shots/positions and I'll out-shoot most any compound, just because I know their limitations. Standing straight up, on an open range, and at known distances any decent compound shooter would beat me. However, put those same guys against shooters like Rod Jenkins, Bill Leslie, Ricky Welch, etc. and they'll get a run for their money. I watched a sponsered "Pro" (with a decked-out compound) spend $20 or more ($2 at a time) before he could beat a guy with a recurve on a novelty shoot a few years ago. No tricks to this--it was a narrow but wide-open lane, down-hill, with water (Grenada Lake) for a backstop. The target was an orange dot on a doe target's rump. The guy with the recurve shot 3 arrows ($2). The range was later stepped off to be about 44 yds. The guy with the recurve was a lot better than average, but not a pro or IBO shooter.
A compound is easier in the short run, but if you put the time the advantages of a trad bow( in my opinion anyway) outweigh the advantages of a compound.
OK, well I'll try again with a pm.
With the way everyone has talked about your abilities and the way you talked about yourself there, I got the idea that you were about god with a bow. You say youre not, ok. You're still a whole lot better than I am lol.