Ok--I think I understand what you mean. It can be two different sports, with totally different types of equipment even--i.e. Olympic/F.I.T.A. set-ups vs. hunting set-ups. Guess that's why I like 3-D so much--I use the same bows and arrows (sans broadheads) for 3-D that I use for hunting. I tinker and experiment and try things. I love to hunt anything from rabbits to moose, and plan to one day hunt water buffalo....and I love to shoot 3-D tournaments. I've even gotten lucky at a few big ones--but that doesn't replace hunting.

Larry Yein is another World Champion that hunts (sucessfully), as is Rick Welch. Bill Leslie is a heck of a target archer also, who kills critters.

Heck, all the better target archers I know also kill animals with a bow and arrow. Some of the less skilled target archers I know also kill critters--they are better hunters than they are archers, and get within their range.

Admittedly, I don't know hardly any field archers/long range target archers. That just isn't popular around here--but that is probaly more the type BC is referring to.