In the early 80's, I was the only lunatic in a local club of 500 members that used a recurve and longbow. Today I belong to a small local club that owes it's very survival to traditional shooters. Our compound tournaments were so poorly attended that we either had to make changes or lock the gates for good. We went all-traditional. Compounders are still welcome in our club, but we only have trad shoots now. Yesterday's shoot was a non-trophy club shoot, any equipment. I think 5 wheelbows were there out of some 30 shooters.

That's about what we were seeing before we made the move to traditional only.

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