ORIGINAL: awshucks
Many of us use traditional equipment and many limit, or claim to, their shots to 15 yards.
And I have the utmost respect for them. I've often stated imho, trad guys should get first whack at the deer. I'd like to watch a guy make a self bow or fab his own arrows from a chunk of wood. Archery has changed more in our lifetimes than in the last several thousand years. If trad were the only option available other than xbows I wouldn't have much if anything to say. However, that baby got threw out w/the bath water in 1969 and Mr Allen and Mr. Jennings were dumping the buckets, lol. Shoot what ever and shoot it well.
I've already been identified early on in this thread as being "long in tooth" and I'll just go ya one further....I shot my first bowkill deer in 1962 with a 50 lb. Ben Pearson recurve and a cedar shaft. That equipment is long gone. Archery will always be here no matter what you use. Time stops for no man.
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