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Compound or Traditional
01-30-2007, 10:38 AM
#11
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Spring Grove, Pa. USA
Posts: 2,120
RE: Compound or Traditional
Traditional.I've always shot recurves and longbows.When I started bowhunting 27 years ago,I bought a compound because that's what everyone else used.I hunted with that for some time and had some success but never really felt comfortable with it,I didn't like the sights and the break over on the draw really bothered me so I went back to the recurves about10 or so years ago.Now I strictly shoot longbows.
01-30-2007, 11:11 AM
#12
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Finger Lakes, NY/Mass
Posts: 38
RE: Compound or Traditional
I clicked on both. My initial 25+ years were spent using longbows and recurves. I then went through a period of using both and eventually to compounds exclusively due to severe arthritis in my hands. But..I just went back to a light 44# recurve and I seem to be able to shoot 20 -30 arrows before I have to quit. Next season I'll be back to trads. Nothing like the satisfaction of success with a bare bow trad.....
laxdad
laxdad
01-30-2007, 11:22 AM
#13
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location:
Posts: 1,381
RE: Compound or Traditional
I've been shooting a longbow for the past 4 years because compounds are for wussy's and sissy's and using one takes away everything there is about bowhunting .......... 
......... did I just say that ?
BTW I bought my Dad's Mathews Q2 and will likely use it this fall [:-]
......... did I just say that ?BTW I bought my Dad's Mathews Q2 and will likely use it this fall [:-]
01-30-2007, 12:31 PM
#14
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location:
Posts: 1,424
RE: Compound or Traditional
ORIGINAL: burbaust99
Amen to that! There is just something about going back to the ways of old to take a deer that has a certain appeal. The pride behind doing it like thatmaybe? I guess its another reason I'm picking up trad shooting.
ORIGINAL: rybohunter
I clicked both, but right now its overwhelmingly more with a compound. I want to get back into trad more this coming season. I won't feel completed as a bowhunter until I take a deer with trad equipment.
I clicked both, but right now its overwhelmingly more with a compound. I want to get back into trad more this coming season. I won't feel completed as a bowhunter until I take a deer with trad equipment.
01-30-2007, 12:44 PM
#15
Fork Horn
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Bushton, KS
Posts: 136
RE: Compound or Traditional
I shoot both, somthing about picking up my recurve makes me feel like a true archer. I can pick up my new Vectrix XL (now that it is set) on any given day and shoot tight groups. But my recurve is on total instinct, not put the pin on the target. It is also a lot easier to stalk turkey and deer with my recurve. Different shooting angles and quick release. IMO 
01-30-2007, 12:45 PM
#16
Senior Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Portage WI/Racine WI
Posts: 2,320
RE: Compound or Traditional
ORIGINAL: bowtech die hard
that makes three of us.
ORIGINAL: burbaust99
Amen to that! There is just something about going back to the ways of old to take a deer that has a certain appeal. The pride behind doing it like thatmaybe? I guess its another reason I'm picking up trad shooting.
ORIGINAL: rybohunter
I clicked both, but right now its overwhelmingly more with a compound. I want to get back into trad more this coming season. I won't feel completed as a bowhunter until I take a deer with trad equipment.
I clicked both, but right now its overwhelmingly more with a compound. I want to get back into trad more this coming season. I won't feel completed as a bowhunter until I take a deer with trad equipment.
01-30-2007, 12:47 PM
#17
Senior Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Portage WI/Racine WI
Posts: 2,320
RE: Compound or Traditional
I'm really surprised that there hasn't been more compound shooters telling us we're all idiots lol. There has been more of them on the poll, but maybe they're just scared to tell us why...
