rcd567 - The answer is personal choice.
To a crossbow shooter who rarly practices, archery season might be very challenging.
To a compound shooter who practices a few weeks before season, archery might be very challenging.
To a longbow/recurve shooter who practice 5 nights a week archery might be very challenging.
See the trend there ? The challenge is in the view of the individual, not neccessarily in the equipment used. Of course, we all know and agree rifle hunting is "easier" than shooting a deer with a self bow - but compare a novice hunter with a rifle and a grizzled old timer bowhunter with his self bow and they both have huge challenges ahead of them, don't they ?
rybohunter
It's not a matter of hate, so much as there are much more things I'd rather do than shoot my bow .......................
The people who live and breathe ARCHERY can make all the stupid rules they want for your little games. The people who live and breathe HUNTING will make ours.
Ouch man .... really ? I guess I was naive to think that bowhunter actually loved the sport of archery instead of using it to extend their seasons. [
] This is where I actually DO draw the lines and say, you know, the advance of the compound bow has made it so easy for guys like you to infiltrate archery season that the modern compound has become a negative to archery and bowhunting.
Arthur P - He would pass the proficiency test because the modern compound bow is that easy to shoot. With the increase ease in shooting them, so too has archery lost what might be more important than anything else - the love for archery that bowhunters is suppose to have.
You can read it right here in this thread ... don't have time to shoot, better things to do, great shot anyway, why practice ? etc etc. Bowhunters and archers aren't suppose to struggle with the thoughts of praciting with their equipment, are they ?