Trad Gang is a Trad only forum and they're very picky about it. Their perrogative to do so I guess.

There is a sense of elitism in trad hunting. I've struggled with shooting longbows and recurves for 3 years now. I actually went back to compound 6 weeks ago on a KS hunt because I lost faith in my ability to shoot accurately. I made a post on the Tradgang about it and they allowed it, encouraged me, never talked about thread deletion or anything.

I didn't read any threads on your big cougar so I don't know what was said, what wasn't etc. It appears they saw your posts as a traditional kill and when they found out it wasn't, you were banned for lying.

Saddest thing ? Anyone reading about this after the fact sees you as a bit deceitful in your hunting practices, not knowing anyting other than whats been posted on the Tradgang and here.