I submit using a compound excludes a person from The true sport of Archery .............and the ability, form, and requirements, to achieve exceptional levels of skill is what sets this discipline apart from recurve/longbow shooting.

Bone to Bone alignment, power triangles, the floating of a sight under holding weight, stance, draw length dynamics, the release explosion, target panic and all its maladies, the feel of the string in your fingers, and a proper hand position, hand/eye coordination, the ability to draw full weight of bow, the purity of the stick and string, The proper draw, that allows everything to start in its correct position, as tension is transferred through the abs and triceps into the deep rb muscles, the challenge of shooting up hill and down hill with proper form and not letting the angles reek havoc on your game - all that is lost with the mechanics of wheels/cams, letoff and triggered releases.

These are all the intricate parts of what makes ARCHERY such a great and challenging sport - bowhunting or target..................and the TRUE core of what separates "Shooting Bows" from shooting a compound.................

In honesty a compound has NOTHING in common with a recurve/longbow from the way its drawn, to the way its held, to the dynamics of the way it casts an arrow and where the energy to do so is generated. Nothing is the same

And if you don't see that as enough to groups compounds and crossbows as virtually the same kind of weapon in how they are vastly different from the recurve/longbow..............................then you are missing what the sport and discipline ARCHERY is about......................