I don' t see the problem with any of those coments. Chuck Adams at 70 yards is old news. I don' t entirely know why he writes these things, but he is by all accounts (usualy his own) a good archer, starting back in recurve at college days. Tiger Woods can hit it 340 and keep it in the fairway, doesn' t mean I can. There are guys out there shooting 3D every weekend who are hitting the 12 ring with a large percentage of shots, their group might open out to a tennis ball at 70 yards. I personaly think this is risky, but so are a lot of shots. Anyway, the tradtion of traditionalists is nicely expressed throughout the literature with 100+ yard shots.

The P&Y thing is complex. On the one hand I think it is good that they drew a line. Like any line it is arbitrary, and open to rebutal. In retrospect I think the 65% let-off was a mistake, they cut out a lot of shooters, and most compounds, and yet I don' t think there is a big difference in shooting between 80 and 65, so it may have been a mistake. The open on impact broadheads are a big mistake. In the right circumstaces they are a better bet than regular heads, so I think it is counter ethical.

Bernie is a great guy. Very ethical, did me a big favour over some product lost in the mail. He has a boastful maner, but my dealings tell me he is a good guy. There is no way he believes you don' t need to tune. I mean there are ways of getting around tuning, and perfect tune isn' t always the most accurate, but no tune isn' t the answer either. Until the Black Widow video/manual came out a while back the majority of trad archers tunned their bows by installing large fletches, so tunning degrees mean different things to different archers. On the compound side, people seem to spent a lot of time tuning, and little time shooting, tunig isn' t as demanding as trying to improve your score. Like the guys who think they are great rifle shots, because they work on their handloads every weekend on the bench. SO I think there needs to be a little ballance.

I think trad archery is for some people a similar kind of avoidance. If you can do with a longbow what most can only do with a compound, then you are a hell of an archer. But take hunting for a minute, 80-90 percent of hunters aren' t succesful. Far better to be an unsuccessful trad archer, than an unsuccessful compound hunter, and no particular effort is required.