My hats off to you too Arthur.....I've only been a bow hunter for the last 17 years myself. i started out with an old Martin Lynx compound bow in 1990. i took off into the high tech transformation of these compound bows for any years with all my heart and soul. i built my own archery shop, and had a ball tweaking bows and trying to make them faster and more efficient for 3D shooting compittition....It was challanging and just a lot of fun, i got into presision arrow building too as a result. This was just as important, if not more so, than having a fast bow. the faster those light arrows travel, the more accurate they needed to be built to be identical to each other for consistant groups at longer distances.....Now you'll notice i haven't mentioned hunting yet......Bow "Hunting" and 3D compitition is two totally different things...one is a game, or a challange, or just a bunch of fun. Yes, it can be used as some of the best hunting practice you can get too. But there is a vast difference in shooting rubber deer & elk that don't move.....Whayt i used to do was have a 3D bow high speed unit i played with in compitition, then my hunting bow that i used for that purpose.....

What brought me over to traditional style archery was that the technicalogical advances of the average compound bow were promoting too much long distance shooting in the field at animalsin my opinion......Now before i piss anyone off here....let me explain my take on this....Here is Duanes Quote :

compound shooters think of trad shooters as unethical because they aren't nearly as accurate, and wound more animals

trad shooters think compounders have removed so much of the archery from their hunting that its not even bowhunting anymore with the triggers, sights, 70 yard shots and mechanical broadheads

theres your blanket - and many, MANY hunters sleep under them both


If you shoot trad ? Get off your high horse, know that shooting a compound and killing deer IS much easier than your choice in bows, but it still isn't easy. As long as the technology wave doesn't shorten your season, your bag limits, or otherwise affects your bowhunting in any way, shape or form ? Don't worry about it, worry about YOUR hunting.

If you shoot a compound ? Get off your high horse, know that you're choosing a much easier weapon to shoot, and that while trad archers MIGHT wound more game ? Plenty enough are shot and lost with compounds. If YOUR seasons/bag limits etc isn't affected by those shooting real bows ? Don't worry about their hunting, worry about YOUR hunting.


I shot a compound for 13 years, then switched to trad for 3-4 years, and am shooting a compound again this year. I've wounded deer and killed deer with both. I can tell you 100% trad is much harder, and I can tell you 100% compounds are not easy.

Don't be frustrated, unless YOUR season is being impacted by someone elses choices in weapons.
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[/align]I aggree with this quote in many ways...BUT......the part about "If YOUR seasons/bag limits etc isn't affected by those shooting real bows ? Don't worry about their hunting, worry about YOUR hunting."
That is what is exactly what is coming guys....The proficiency of these new compound bows pushing 350 FPSare incredible....i had one of the fastest bows in the world last year at this time, and i could use it well too!
It was an incredible piece of engineering.....

My problem was that as i looked around our hunting camp, and all the other archery hunting camps that i visited.....i noticed whileswapping stories and looking at everyones gear the vastdifference beteen "true archery hunters", and those just using a bow as a means to try and kill an animal.... I wont go into ethics or anything else....i even found myself harvesting elk at 60 yards, and shooting broad heads at 80 yards until it hit me last year that i was missing the boat here......i got disgusted with myself and sold that bow that the company that built it claimed proudly, "Taking the Arch out of Archery!" I decided i was going to put a whole bunch back in mine, and get back to the hunting part of it a bit more....I could have done the same thing using a com[pound bow too i guess....But i like the challange of the traditional equipment, and all the fun stuff that goes along with it.......I believe the amount of archers with rife hunting thinking are rising significantly out there.....seasons and regulations WILL be changed accordingly with high tech gear....like it or not guys...you can take that one to the bank.....When they do....i'll still be bow hunting now....

Please excuse my spelling here guys....darn spell check isn't working, and my spelling sucks!.....Kirk