ORIGINAL: Germ
Is a tradition bow harder to shoot, yes indeed, and I suck at it[8D] I just don't agree with the playing the Native American card to speak. They did not use traditional because they wanted to, they had to.
The romance is in the hunt IMO, not what one shoots.
Germ, noone said that Indians wouldn't have chosen a more potent weapon ... in fact, thay did when they traded for guns! That has NOTHING to do with the indian reference ....... you are over thinkin it