Stealth:

You can do it. Just get over the mental hump.

All anyone has to do is first understand that a recurve or longbow is not necessarily going back in time and or that a loin cloth is required to be properly dressed. There are various degrees of "stick" shooting. You can go completely primitive or you can simply use a different type of bow.

I am proficient with extinctive shooting a bare bow. However, as I told my bud, I am going "Trad-Mod."

My custom bow will be center shot and offset to allow a "launcher type" rest if I choose not to shoot off the widow face, It is being tapped for a stabilizer, sights, quiver holder, and pressure button. The length of the bow will be 64" or 66", and the peak-weight draw-length will be 31", not 28". The poundage will be set at 50# max.

These specs (length, draw-length, poundage) combined with the right limb composition will allow a sweet drawing bow, capable of holding at full draw without great effort. A recurve can be drawn on your quarry much later than most compounds, and can be let down easy and quietly if your sight picture momentarily leaves you.

I suspect that many shooters that try but cannot shoot well with a "stick," may have been shooting bow to short for their draw-length, were over-bowed, believed the had to shoot a bare bow, and shoot instinctively. Not true.

As for accuracy and power, I witnessed a shooter drill a deer at 40-yards with a 45-lb recurve. My first large buck (245lb-8pt), I dropped with a 40-lb, 64" American "Cheetah" glassed Maple bow at 18 paces. The bow buried a 6-bladed "Wasp" in his spine. The second shot, still at same distance, took out his heart.

A recurve is a highly proficient tool; it just does not have cams and cables.