Charlie P - actually, I shot my longbow more in 2004 than most guys posting here combined. I hit a really bad streak beginning in Oct with shooting and missing then wounding the same buck and lost him. My confidence was shaken. I went to KS a few weeks after that. My shooting continued to decline and after sitting in a tree for a few hours my practice shots before I got down were horrible - sometimes 12-16" off where I wanted the arrow to go. I hunted Sat/Sun/Mon and Monday my Dad killed his nice buck. That night he said "why don't you use my Q2, at least you won't wound a big buck " and you know what ? He was right. After 15 minutes I was shooting 2" groups at 20 yards with his Q2. I didn't shoot it again until Saturday morning, and I had been in my tree maybe 2 hours when a nice buck come in. I swung way to my left, one heart shot and he was mine.

The extreme ease of shooting the compound was what I chose to do with no regrets. I was shooting awful, there was a high chance I'd miss/wound with my longbow. In my mind I did the right thing and would do it all again the same way.

So no, I didn't go to Kansas with a compound. I switched to a compound, then back again when i got back to Arkansas when I started shooting better.