Quite the perspective....and I'm not versed enough in "archery" history to disagree or agree with you. I hunt with both traditional "Archery" and compounds....and while I gree with you on the "difficulty" factor....I won't go so far as to say compounds aren't "archery tackle". They're as much archery tackle as a modern day alloy head is a "3 wood". It's just a product of the times (IMO).
Not a good comparison - a persimmon wood and an allow wood are the same woods just make of different stuff.Still the same club, same degree, same face etc. Acompound is wheels, pulley, cables, sights, letoff, triggers, drop away rests ... compounds don't even categorize as a bow by definition.
Agreed.....if done "tactfully".
I gave up tact for a more direct approach
I could not think of many other statements that would be more divisive than that.
I welcome compounds, they are not a negative to archery/bowhunting so far as I can tell. They are a high tech weapon, they are the majority choice for bowhunters. I shoot one sometimes.
They are not bows by definition. They're high tech archery weapons. I know thats against the grain, i also know its the truth.
Give me a freaking break, by definition it is a bow like it or not. Go out and whittle one out of a stick elitist.
you're calling me an elitist ? why ? I welcome compounds and crossbows alike. do you ?
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:a weapon that is made of a strip of flexible material (as wood) with a cord connecting the two ends and holding the strip bent and that is used to propel an arrow
Thats NOT what a compound is - the latest compounds the limbs are really nothing more than holders for the cams/wheels that generate all the energy.
Sorry
TG78its the truth
there has been a redefinition of what archery is - archery seasons and bowhunting were longbows and recurves, they forged they way, they WERE bowhunting and archery.
compounds got in, and when the technology got good, all of a sudden recurves and longbows became "traditional archery"
hmmmm why the renaming ? They never QUIT being bowhunting and archery !
Thats what happened, like it or not. I've hunted with compounds for over a decade and a half and will continue to. I'm elk hunting with a muzzleloader this fall. I'll hunt with my Zipper recurve a lot too. And I'll recognize the huge differences in each one.
Thats just recognizing that one is much more more challenging and rewarding and deserving of Kudo's than the others.