I'll be one of the top of the list as labeled a SOB when it comes to elitist attitudes on trad vs compound.

Understand, I killed a deer with a compound on Oct 2nd then on Nov 15th killed a buck with my trad bow. I've alternated back and forth, for 6 years now, and I have 2 decades compound experience. I qualify as been there and done that.

Let me tell you this - if you think traditional shooters can't look down on compounds without validity in it, then look at how compounders look down on crossbow hunters.

That animosity spews all the way from the P&Y Club who still to this day has a #1 priority of banning them from archery season. Compound shooters HATE crossbows, start a thread and you'll see it and they're proud of it! They'll tell you WHY its not archery or bowhunting in their minds .... what they cannot see is that to trad shooters, compounds are every bit as evil as compounds think crossbows are.


Oh the Irony huh? Those elitist compound shooters find themselves looked down even as they look down.

I've got to go to a Christmas party - I will be back later - but I'll tell you right now, before compounds archery season was recurves and longbows. After compounds, what was bowhunting was compounds, and recurves and longbows were shoved into a "traditonal" category.

Bowhunting is longbows and recurves. That has never changed, though its been forgotten. Compounds are not bowhunting, they are compound hunting, not bowhunting.

I know that will ruffle feathers, but I shoot a compound too - I can say that the deer I've killed with them are great kills, great hunts, accomplishments but I wasn't bowhunting until I went to recurves and longbows.