Do you shoot both a traditional and compound?
 

I am just curious as to how many traditional shooters also own and use a compound bow? I would assume that for non competitive shooting (bowhunting and for fun) that a person can do both with reasonable accuracy. I would thing that a competitive shooter may choose to stick with one style and try to perfect it. Right?

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I have been hunting with a compound for years, just picked up the Longbow last week. I think the longbow is as good as it gets! Looking forward to a recurve next!

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I'm a big believer in doing one or the other when it comes to shooting compound or Trad. There's just to many things IMO that are so much different then the other. Anchor points are different along with many other things. Thats just me though and I'm not telling anyone thats what they've got to do.

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I shoot both and usually carry both in my truck when I go out. I let the day dictate which on I carry into the woods. It was a little difficult when I shot instictive with both bows but now with sights on the compound I dont have a problem.

Rogue

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I shoot compounds and even homemade midieval crossbow replicas. I can't really shoot the sticks any more, because of my shoulders, neck and back.I'm really just holding onto them for my son now. He shoots my longbow very well indeed. Better than I can, for sure. :)I compensate by shooting one of my compounds fingers/barebow and call it my orthopedic recurve. ;)My other compound is set up for release and sights though.

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Shoot both. I'm not biased. Shooting my compound takes such little thinking after all these years, I don;t believe one robs anything from the other.

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I shoot all three types of bows.

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I wish my archery room (shop) was that big!

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I now hunt with a 45# Oneida compund because my Arthritis has gotten so bad I can not pull and hold the weight in a stick bow heavy enough for hunting. But, there is always a but you know, if I want to hve "fun" shooting I use my 38 # recurve or longbow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!![X(]

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I shoot a Bowtech Allegiance compound, Pearson Cougar recurve, and I should be receiving my Chek-Mate Hunter II recurve any day now. I ordered it from Chad back in May. I like shooting my compound for hunting the wide open spaces on the deserts, and plains here in NM. Then I like my recurve for the simplicity, quickness of the shot, and the overall carry weight. I think I'm going to use my recurves as my primary weapons when I chasing deer and elk in the mountains. I plan on turkey hunting with my recurves this year. This will be my first trad hunt, and I’ve been shooting my Pearson for close to a year now.

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I'm approaching about as extreme as you can get with both........I am competitive on a National level in 3D with a compound, and might try it with a recurve next.
As it stands now I'm becoming quite proficient with traditional gear, and will split all of my archery seasons between both types of bows to be able to enjoy both.
It will be the recurve or longbow for PA's hunting seasons, Compound for IL bow season, and then compete with the compound in 3D with the traditional gear for fun shoots.

I might be spending 2hrs one day working on 3rd axis leveling and pin gaps with the compound and 2hrs the next day trying to figure out why I'm shooting a little right at 20 with my Black Widow recurve.

I can tell you this, done right and not overdoing it the traditional shooting has helped my compound shooting by strengthening the stabilizing muscles in my shoulders, back and arms.

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Just traditional for me. ;)

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Just trad for me, wheel bows have too many moving parts for my taste, and way too many things that can go wrong with them. And talk about expensive...[&:] I wuv my recurve.

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I mainly shoot trad. I build and shoot selfbows. I have recurves and longbows as well I just prefer ones I have made myself. I made my quiver, Rivercane arrows and obsidian heads, put turkey feathers on them too, and my string,,.....just about anything I can make I do.

I do own several compounds however. My first bow (and the one I used for my first deer and first buck too.) I retired that years ago though. I do have a PSE team Fitzgerald nova I picked up at Walmart for $100 years ago. Shoots good and I can put the arrows in a silver dollar at 40 yards everytime I pick it up. Which isn't very often.

I usualy start the year with my selfbows. Towards the rut I sometimes get out the compound for the added range and when I don't have time to practice with my selfbow. I have been known to bowhunt with my selfbow through gun season though. This year I used my selfbow until therut then switched to compoundthen in shotgun season I took it out. I hunt with what I feel comfortable with and have let many deer, including some nice bucks, walk when I had the trad gear that I could have taken with a compound. Made me think but I never regreted it.

Trad is just to fun not to shoot but entering the woods I believe you owe it to the animals you hunt to know your limitations and stick by them. This goes for whatever you carry.

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I shoot both but lately ive been leaning more and more to using my trad gear for most of next season.

Shooting form does not really seem to have a big factor, since i look at the two types of equpitment as completly different and study both of them different. But then again, there is a reason our baseball coach wouldnt let us golf during season....

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I shoot both. Can't get into the crossbow thing though. Just love the magical flight of the arrow as Uncle Ted would say.

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I started with trad gear back in the late 70s early 80s, took up a compound in the early 80s, and still use both. All depends on my mood. Some times I dont get to practice as much as id like. Like this year, I didnt get to shoot much during the summer or before season opened, so I pulled out my compound (since a compound is pretty much a pick up and hold tight groups bow) and shot my first deer with it. On my spare time, I got back to practicing and took out the recurve and tagged my next three deer with it.

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For me playing ball, specifically softball, had much more of an impact on my golf game than vice versa. The swings are in totally different planes. I had been playing ball so long by the time I picked up golf that the ball swing was natural, whereas the golf swing wasn't.

Bill

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Just 'curves and longbows for me-haven't picked up a compound in about 15yrs

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I still shoot both. I will say I hunted with the recurve most of the time last year. I can see myself going full time stick in the near future. They are real hard to put down once you start shooting them!

Hatchet Jack

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I hear ya Jack!!!!!!! You got that right, I can't put mine down! I'm either shooting it, holding it or staring at it! I wuv my bow too....:D:D:D[8D]

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I, like many archers, have made the loop (starting traditional, going compound, then back to traditional). From the simplicity of one string, glove/tab; to the complex pulleys, cables, releases, and sights have given many the experience of traditionaland modern day archery. I admire archers who haveexperiencedthe recurve, longbow, and compound bows and have enjoyed the differences of each style. To me,traditional archery is very challenging where as compound archery is speed and technology. All styles and forms of archery arebasedfrom ancient archery traditions.An ancient sport for different archers to enjoywhatever style or bow they choose to employ.

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have a collection of Oneida bows going back to the H250's & forward to the Stealth aka Black Eagle...
I've owned and shot trad bows a lot longer than that...
but I haven't touched one of the Oneida's in about eight years...

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i've been shooting compounds since i was legally allowed to hunt with them.
however i plan on making my 1st Selfbow soon

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I havn't shot a compound since I picked up my first recurve. Just havn't had the desire.

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Been trad only for 3 seasons, but I'm thinking of getting a compound again for those times when I just dont have time to shoot daily.

I just don't have the discipline to keep shooting daily as the season drags on and I don't feel comfortable shooting at game without regular practice with the trad gear.

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Personally, during the season, most of practice is done right from my stand before I get down (bring some pactice arrows), on the walk in at stumps. etc, before I leave home (in the basement), or during lunch (we are either using a van or pickup during hunting season, so hauling a target is no big thing). I am with you though,if I can't practice during the season, I'd have areal hard time.

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edit: never mind. :)

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I like to be multi functional. I was an all around athlete as well in school. I couldnt pick just one sport. I make, shoot, and hunt with my trad bows, same as my compounds. I can never just settle with doing one thing. Im now starting to look into making atlatls and eventually hog hunting with one. I guess time will tell.

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I'm a old man and have taken lots of game with a recurve. I shot one from 1965 to about 1975 I was one of the last to go to the compound in my group. I won My first big PAA tournament as a pro in 1970. I had a hard time shooting a compound at first and shot a 70 lbs. I could shoot the lights out with it, but had a hard time getting off the string clean with my fingers. It about 1985 I went back to a long bow and a recurve for about 4 years. I had to make a change I was winning every thing I shot at and was killing lots of deer every year and needed a change to keep things interesting. It didn't work I was still was winning most of the 3D shoots and that's when we still competed with the compound shooters. I had the highest score ever shot on are 3D range bare bow 536 out of a 560 at compound stakes. I started to have a penetration problem with my 65 lb. recruve and 2216 and tried every thing. When I lost a couple deer with good hits and I found one later that I had made a good hit on. The arrow only got one lung and it went about 3/4 of a mile it blew my mind . I went back to the compound and picked up a bow companies as a sponsor again right away after a couple of tournaments. I'm hunting with fast, hard hitting 65 lb compound, use a release and blowing through every thing I shoot now. I still love to shoot a recurve and still shoot can shoot very good with one. I have no problems with bowhunters that use one for hunting as long as they can hit with it, I seen some that can't hit the side of a house and lose lots of deer every year. When it comes to my hunting I will use my compound and not look back.

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I haven't had the urge to shoot a compound since I started shooting traditional. I've probably shot a dozen or two arrows through a compound in the last 15 years or so, but it just didn't "do it" for me. If I ever get to a point where I can't shoot my longbow or recurve, I may consider a compound again.....hope I never have to make that decision.

Bowdoc, don't get me wrong here but if you had penetration problems on deer with a 65# recurve, my bet would be it wasn't the bow itself. I say that because the traditional bow has proven itself time and time again over the years to be capable of killing anythinga compound will. Fred Bear killed an elephant pulling 70 or 75#. Water buffalo have been killed with less than 70#. Moose and elk are killed with less than 50#. I have pictures of a black bear, estimated at over 600#, that was killed with 52# (complete pass-through including the off-side leg). A lady I know killed a record book gemsbok pulling less than 50#.

I'm not doubting your experiences, but I do want to clarify that the traditional bow is a very efficient and viable hunting weapon, as long as we do our part.

Chad

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Forgetbowdoc, Chad. He's been spouting the exact same anti-traditional nonsense on the bowhunting and technical forums practically from the first day he joined the site. He's right, everyone else is wrong.You know what I'm saying. ;)

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I'm not saying a recurve won't kill game. I'm just saying I love the way a fast compound pass through game faster and hits harder than a recurve. I have gotten a lot of pass through s with a recurve. Its the ones that I didn't that I didn't like. I have always taken three are four deer a year and maybe a bull elk are a bear to if I was lucky. I'm no stranger when it come to a recurve are a compound. I all ways could tune them up to shoot through a key hole. It wasn't me I could put arrows in a pop can all day long out to 40 yards with a recurve. I talked to Fred once at a archery shop and he told me he would never shoot a elephant again with his bow that had to follow it for days before it died. He mostly shot 65 lbs and was a snap shooter, but he would be aiming his arrow from the start of his draw, He tried the compound and loved them, but couldn't shoot as will with them because he was a snap shooter. He told me that him self

Arthur: They always say a old fox will smell his own hole first

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My point was simply that if a 70-75# recurve will bury an arrow up in an elephant, 65# will shoot through any deer on the planet--pending we do our part correctly.

Put a broadhead through a deer's lungs, it's going down--doesn't matter if the arrow is travelling 150 fps or 300 fps, the deer is just as dead.

Chad

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I'm not following that sentence. According to what was written, I would assume that at one time you didn't have penetration problems with your recurve, but then started to have problems. What changed?

I do know that Ashby does lists items in order inhis recent TBM article on what effects penetration. If I remember correctlyarrow integrity (the ability to remain intact) was number one and arrow flight was number two above all else, even above arrow weight and broadhead type.

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I'm thinking bowdoc wasn't pulling his recurve all the way back when he didn't get hardly any penetration. Target panic? Bowdoc, you can't blame the bow! Take it upon yourself and fix the problem you are having instead of making up excuses.

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I shoot both but the compound is to easy and thier is no fun anymore it's way to easy to be accurate with a compound.But the skill and talent that you need for the traditional way makes you feel like you are back in the old days in Sherwood Forest,I will never give up my longbow. and I have started my kids out with traditional,hope they feel the the same desire for it as I do.

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I've always shot traditionalfor 45 years. Two years ago my wife bought a nice compound for me, complete with sights, whisker biscuit, CX arrows, release and all. I have to use it to hunt with Suburban Whitetail Management of Northern Virginia but I don't like it. I have about a dozen traditional bows that I hunt and shoot most of the time, they are so much more fun. AND they loook maaavalous...lol

Here's some.





My first 2 compound kills ever and a double at that!