Guys NEVER say never. I statred years ago, many many years ago, shooting a recurve for fun. Was all there was in them days. Recurves that is. Started hunting in 1970 with a Bear White Tail compound. Went back to stick and string about twenty years ago. I have been plagued with arthritus since I was seventeen. Ask Chad. He knows I look like a question mark when I stand up! Last year it hit me that with the on set of really cold weather in Ohio I was having a very hard time pulling my 60# recurve. I dropped to 46# and was still having a hard time so I bought an Onida (sp) compund. It looks like a recurve with cams. Well any way, how I hunt has not change. In my heart I still hunt traditionally.
I have said it before, it is not what some one has in their hands but what lives in their inner being that a traditional bowhunter. A recurve or longbow just makes it easier to recognize them.