More deer for me more deer for me Yepper I would still hunt and never even miss a beat but i would hate to see that happen even though I don' t use a compound. There will always be room for everyone in the sport of bow hunting (even xbows)

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YEP! I started with a recurve , I reckon I' ll finish with a recurve!

Yes.

All I would have to do is dust off the ole recurve, practice, and hunt.

yea still got the old bear recurve I used in the beginning but sure would hate to hang up my mathews that 160 class at 40yrds with a recurve still haunts me

In all honesty, I do not know. I love the compound bow and, not to offend anyone, find the traditional bow a little boring from a technical standpoint. Since such a big part of my life is devoted to archery, and compound bows in particular, I do not know if I would enjoy bowhunting as much with a traditional bow. I would expect the same " thrill" to be there when attempting to harvest an animal but bowhunting, to me, is much more to me than just the hunt itself.

Really, I don' t see what the big deal is about compounds. Compared to an average, run-of-the-mill recurve or longbow, I' ve found them to be visually unpleasant, aesthetically unappealing, monetarily consumptive, operationally boring, mechanically fragile, functionally unreliable, tactically inefficient and have a well deserved reputation for giving shooters hypertension, apoplexy... and stinky feet. But they do shoot fast arrows. [&:][>:]

Seriously though, in answer to the question, I would be forced to quit bowhunting because of injuries and arthritis. I can not shoot a hunting weight stickbow any more.

As a fellow archery techie, I agree with Frank' s post. On the other hand, I love bowhunting so much that I would still do it without a compound. I' d just have to keep some illegal compounds hidden to tinker with.

Heck yeah, my MightyMite would see the same action in the woods.

Arther P, you need to break out as subtlety doesn' t work here. You have to learn to say what you really think. hahaha

I started with a recurve that was the latest in technology back in 1960. I myself would probably not hunt rather than go back to the recurve for reasons that will remain mine.

It is an interesting question but I don' t ever foresee this happening.