BOWFANATIC -

Wanna make a bet ? I can prove my point with this bet.

I can take anybodys crossbow and be good with it in very short order at , say, 30 yards. Good being keeping the arrows in the lungs of a McKenzie.

I can take anybodys compound and do the same.

Fact is you can do either of those too. So can my co-worker who's never shot a bow. So can my brother, who's never shot a bow, so can Byron Ferguson, who likely hasn't shot a compound in years.

Now ........ can you take my recurve and keep all the arrows in that mcKenzie ? If you can ..... well, you're lying if you say you can. I can't even keep them all in and its my bow and I practice a bit and am a fair shot. I've shot enough to know, read enough to know - that the following is 1005 true in todays world


Crossbows = easy. Compounds = easy recurve/longbows = hard


As for Fred Bear ........ he took poor shots and made some of them and missed even more I imagine. I've watched quite a bit of his videos ......... the man was an amazing shot no doubt. He won archery tourneys before he ever got well known. The man was a natural. Still took poor shots IMO but they were his to make.

If Fred has used a compound he'd have killed more animals than Chuck ever will. Compounds are the steroids of the archery world.

They make average shooters amazing shooters and really good shooters out of this world shooters.