Hunting with traditional tackle is pretty hard. I so badly want to do it...but its either my skills or the cruddy old traditional equipment I have that wont let me improve enough to loose an arrow at game.
Been there, and back, and there again ..... thats why I picked up the compound last fall.
I do use a release aid,
A HUGE deal - it really is.
Compound is a lot heavier than a recurve or longbow
Try lugging a crossbow around
Compound cant be snap-shot the way I can shoot my recurve.
Mind you I'm still a rookie at the trad thing .......... but don't snap shoot. For me, my target MUST be standing still, I cannot shoot a moving target like I can with a compound (yet). Fred could snap shoot - most trad guys cannot. Why ? Its the focusing thing. Boring a hole where you want the arrow to go. If the target is moving, if your rushed into that snap shooting mode ........ much harder to do IMO
Why do we have to belittle one weapon over another?
I don't think we do. Why ? Because in states that allow crossbows they have never been known to cause any issues - none of the fears people have of them have ever surfaced. Allow them - allow compounds .......... whats it matter really ?
Data, I think you made your point that it is more difficult to hunt with a recurve in some respects. Anyway you can let it rest now?
Most guys shoot compounds. Why ? The answer there will tell you that compounds are vaslty more efficient weapons to kill animals. Thats your reason - you need go no further. Crossbows aint got jack on a compound really. In states that allow crossbows you still got like 60-70% or more of the guys using compounds.
Id really like a thread written by one of the die hard trad shooters, and I would appreciate it a lot more than this.
Go to Tradgang - no compound threads or crossbow threads allowed there. Read up the Leatherwall and Tradgang and you'll see an elitist attitude that in a lot of posts will make you think Damn, wouldn't want to camp with those fellows ! The same attitude that comes out of guys posts on crossbows and I do mean the same.
Ironic to me too - because crossbows have been in AR for 30 years, we've never lost a day of season because of them, they don't dominate the woods, people still shoot recurves and longbows and compounds ........... never a negative.
And people still look down on them [&o]