Thirty years ago this year, I bought a Ben Pearson 45 lb. recurve and a dozen cedar arrows. Six with field points and six with Bear Razorheads. No sights, no nothing. Shot a lot and really enjoyed it. Did not kill a deer with that bow, but it was still great! (Wish I still had that bow today) I actually traded that bow off a few years later for a Compound with sights and aluminum arrows. Killed my first deer. It was a doe, but that was better than the bucks I' ve killed with a rifle. Today, I hunt with a modern compound with all the toys and totally enjoy it.

As someone mentioned earlier, it has created seperate catagories but theres no reason the traditional, compound, and crossbow users can' t unite to thrash the anti-everything crowd.