Actually, I have as much chance of making a clean harvest with my recurve as I do with my compound. Only difference is, I have to get a lot closer with my recurve before I shoot. I would guess that my average shot with the recurve has been around 6 -8 yards. I get fewer opportunities with my recurve, because I need to get very close. When I do, I realize I accomplished something that is not as easy as getting to within, let's say - 20 yards with my compound. I know that there are those who can not accept getting fewer opportunities, and will prefer to hunt with a compound, but just the same, a sense of accomplishment is always greater when succeeding at a harder task. For instance, every hunter would feel more satisfaction from harvesting an elk from the high country of the Rockies, then they would shooting one in a 10' x 10' pen.
Exactly and I get my satisfaction from killing big bucks and I don't care if they are 30 yards or 6 yards. Surely you would agree that killg a 4.5 year old buck at 30 yards with a compound would derive more satisfaction that killing a doe at 6 yards. It all depends on your priorites and what floats your boat.
If bowhunting is just attracting gunhunters who want to extend their hunting time, then they will look for every method to make it easier to make a kill.
Again, what difference does it make? So they do it different than you would do it? Why do you want to even judge where it ends. It is that persons own business to what extent to take their archery passion as long as it is legal and ethical. It is not for you to determine so why try to impose your standards on others?
Would you care to explain why traditional is the fastest growing segment of the bowhunting community? Even Mathews is taking notice of that fact and is set to introduce their own line of traditional bows in the near future.
I will try if you will explain to me why so many of what would be considered the best archers in the world shoot releases, wheels, and fancy gadgets and if you will explain why releases, wheels, and gadgets out number all other methods 50 to 1. But to answer your question I can't answer your question because I don't know it to be true. I don't know but a handful (a small handful) of guys that shoot trad. However, maybe they are looking for an excuse to not be able to hit the broadside of the barn. That is one thing we totally agree on. Most people blame the equipment when they shoot bad when they should be blaming the shooter.
The best comment I can make on that is that it seems the industry is operating under the P.T. Barnum theory of marketing.
So are all archers that shoot releases, wheels, and fancy gadgets suckers? The majority of the best archers to ever grace the sport shoot that way are they suckers too or are you just a sucker when you try to start off shooting that way?
I wonder how many of that overwhelming majority might find out they can shoot equally as well, if not better, with their fingers instead of a release.
Becasue 99% of them can't (including myself) and I shot that way for 11 years and I so kick my old scores @SS now that I shoot a release.
You'd be suprized at how many people I've run across that are totally astounded that a compound can be shot with fingers.
Well that's just sad. I suppose I am not exposed to as many archers as you and why some of the new archers that I am exposed to are misguided they aren't that misguided
