Since I am the only adult in my immediate family that shoots a trad bow, I reckon the tradtion starts with me.[8D]

I shoot a longbow with wood arrows. I shoot a longbow because that's my favorite style of bow (including compounds), and started shooting wood arrows to be able to compete in the longbow class at some tournaments. Now I just shoot them because I like them.

Sometimes I wear camo, sometimes I wear jeans. The only reason I have camo clothes now (used to be a big believer in it) is because it's the kind of clothes I like to wear hunting--lots of pockets, lightweight, quiet. My longbow is laminated, and I have a high-tech (Dynaflight '97) string on it. Plastic nocks on my arrows, sometimes fletched with store-bought feathers, sometimes with wild turkey feathers, and sometimes both. Never shot a homemade broadhead, and probably won't.

I love and respect the romance and history of "traditional" archery, but that's not why I chose my equipment--I just like it better, and it works for me.

Chad