People always ask me if I shoot competitively - and are surprised to learn thatI partake in absolutely no organized archery leagues/ contests/ hobbies.

There are a variety of reasons that I don't:
[ul][*]First and foremost - I think it's insanely boring[*]Secondly - in terms of priorities, I'd rather be in the woods than walking a 3d course or shooting spots on a weekend off-day[*]Finally- I just don't have much in common with most competitive archers.[/ul]
To put this in a real-world example: This is shed season. Any spare time that I have to devote to hunting - will be spent with me either walking fields, crawling through thickets, or spotlighting fields at night.

Shed season flows right into spring turkey season - so then my focus shifts to planninga fewturkey hunts and lining up a few guiding trips.

June, I take a vacation and come back, focused firmly on fall whitetails. Isoakevery available evening knocking on doors, sitting in fields glassing, and spotlighting. I'm lucky to shoe-horn an hour a week into actually shooting my bow.

The reason I ask: I see some very different personality types, not just on this site, but in the real world - a definite difference between your die-hard whitetail hunter, and your resident spot/3d gurus. Not just different personality types, but different approaches to preparation and their hunting in general.

At least when I breakit down - competitive archery is, in my mind, barely related to"hunting"solely in the respect that you use a bow to do it - and you have to guess yardage (in some games). The object of the game is different, the equipment is different, the people are different, the fitness requirements are different, everything is... well... not hunting.

So am I the onlybowhunter out there who just doesn't get into "competitive archery" at all? I mean, I've done it, and I did pretty well at it,but honestly, I'd rather "floss GMMAT'scat's teeth."