I will call you on your elitist views.
You ARE an elitist - and a hypocrite. You rail against compounds, but you use them. And you advocate crossbows - most likely because you just hurt shoulder and can no longer use either your precious traditional or hated compound bow.
Oh geeeeeeez, didn't you read anything on the past 100 pages ? Son, I'm NOT against compounds, but I could easily be if I use the same exact reeasons you use against crossbows. Its not hard to see it really. If I WERE against compounds then yep, me using one would make me hypocritical.
I'll put your panties in a twist, data. I have a 45# Martin recurve that I added a stick on flipper rest, put a stip of duct tape on the riser so I could stick in a finishing nail as a 20yd pin, and I even use a (shudder) release aid to shoot it. I'm a traditionalist, what can I say? (It is a recurve, right?) By the way, it shoots great!!!
Its a bow - not unlike a compound or a crossbow or a self bow. No twist, and I'm going freeball today so nothings wrong down there.