All I can say Bubba is if you want to trad hunt this year you'd better get after it. You'd have a better chance of having a productive year if you went with a compound first. Compound and trad are two different animals. The degree of difficulty in trad vs compound is incredibly high.

LBR on this forum is better about giving advice on equipment and getting prepared; I've been bow hunting over 50 years and LBR will forget more about Traditional Archery than I'll ever learn.