I mainly shoot trad. I build and shoot selfbows. I have recurves and longbows as well I just prefer ones I have made myself. I made my quiver, Rivercane arrows and obsidian heads, put turkey feathers on them too, and my string,,.....just about anything I can make I do.

I do own several compounds however. My first bow (and the one I used for my first deer and first buck too.) I retired that years ago though. I do have a PSE team Fitzgerald nova I picked up at Walmart for $100 years ago. Shoots good and I can put the arrows in a silver dollar at 40 yards everytime I pick it up. Which isn't very often.

I usualy start the year with my selfbows. Towards the rut I sometimes get out the compound for the added range and when I don't have time to practice with my selfbow. I have been known to bowhunt with my selfbow through gun season though. This year I used my selfbow until therut then switched to compoundthen in shotgun season I took it out. I hunt with what I feel comfortable with and have let many deer, including some nice bucks, walk when I had the trad gear that I could have taken with a compound. Made me think but I never regreted it.

Trad is just to fun not to shoot but entering the woods I believe you owe it to the animals you hunt to know your limitations and stick by them. This goes for whatever you carry.