trad bow hunting
 

does traditional bow hunting mean bows without pulleys and all that .how much would one of these cost.where to find them can any one help me:eek:[:o][&:]:(

RE: trad bow hunting
 

There' s a bit more to it, like a completely different philosophy of life between trads and compounders, but when you talk equipment... Yes, trad means no wheels.

Sometimes you can get a good shooting old recurve for less than $50. Or you can order a super spiffy custom bow and spend a thousand bucks on it. Just depends on how much you' ve got to spend.

Here' s a good website to look at:

www.recurves.com

I' d also suggest going to a good bookstore with a well stocked newsstand and getting a copy of ' Traditional Bowhunter Magazine.' Lots of good info and plenty of advertising from bowyers and purveyors of trad gear.

RE: trad bow hunting
 

Agree with Arthur:D Also pull up the threads from this site for the last year and read some of them. You' ll learn alot. Trad is a state of mind;):D Contact Chad at recurves.com and he can help you out. He really helped me when I started out about a year ago. But be careful, once the Trad virus hits ya you can' t get rid of it. Good luck!

RE: trad bow hunting
 

Traditional shooting is also without sights. I had to practice a lot before getting very good with a traditional recurve. It can be fustrating at times. It really is a mindset and philosophy thing.

RE: trad bow hunting
 

Generically it means without wheels :) I can' t agree with RCR that it also means without sights- there is more than one recurve sporting sight pins, because for some people the " instinctive" aspect just can' t be accomplished with any degree of consistancy, but that certainly doesn' t diminish the " trad" part.

Also, as far as (to take Arthur' s comments out of context) I feel that that is a fairly wide brush to tar groups with. My main hunting partner shoots a compound, and his ethics and philosophies closely echo mine, the only difference is that he likes a few gadgets, such as cams, rests, and sights. I can' t recall him shooting an animal any further away than shoots I' ve taken, even though I know he' s certainly capable of making 40 yarders.

I think that there is an elitest trap that can be fallen into, where the morally superior high ground is assumed soley on the basis of one' s chosen bow type.

RC

RE: trad bow hunting
 

im not sure if we can define traditional archery with a shooting style, ive seen gap shooters, string walkers, and instictive shooters. ive heard people say that Howard Hill was the greatest instictive shoot that ever lived, but after reading his books. he claims that he shot a form of the gap system. and also the man that has made all of my recurves before his death was paul schafer. he told me himself, that he developed a very acurate shooting system with out sites. theres no doubt in my mind that paul was the greatest traditional bow hunter of his time. its just my opinion though, but read for yourself. www.schafersilvertipbows.com . but if i had to pick one thing that set traditional archery apart from anything else, is the people in it. they are so eager to help others when help is needed. that alone is enough for me to be proud to be called a traditional archer. good luck, and God Bless. Billy

RE: trad bow hunting
 

TuffCity, I am fully aware that there are compounders with traditionalist attitudes. There are also traditionalists that have compounder attitudes. I thought everyone was aware of that! Didn' t realize I have to put a disclaimer on every stinkin' post! " This is speaking of groups in general. There are exceptions to every rule." [X(][>:][&:]

You talk about ' elitist trap.' Never was one, in the first place. In the second place, the whole compound/traditional disagreement was solved by P&Y in one fell swoop. The seperate traditional Book. Since P&Y is recognized by all as the main national bowhunting organization, what they have done, in effect, is officially made traditional and modern bowhunting two seperate and distinct things. Now, we just share the same season. What ' they' do doesn' t affect me in the slightest any more.

Now, if worse comes to worst, I can make the case in front of our game commission that just because ' they' screwed up and are getting booted out, that I have every right to hold onto the season I' ve been sharing with them.;)

RE: trad bow hunting
 

ArthurP,

I wasn' t taking a shot at you! Really! You just happened to supply a convenient quote for me. :) The rest of my post was just general comment.

Maybe I should have used elitest " dogma" instead of " trap" :D. P&Y notwithstanding, you don' t have to search too many internet sites to find holier- than-thou trad guys (or born again trads) who feel that their chosen weapon is a purer form of expression. I have a " run what ya brung" attitude and sometimes my hair gets up when the " my way is the only way" banner gets unfurled.

the preceeding was a general comment and not directly nor intentionally pointed at anyone specifically, living or dead or halfway inbetween ;)

RC

RE: trad bow hunting
 

LOL! Nice disclaimer. :D:D

Yep. You can find plenty of holier than thou types in the trad community. On the other hand, I' ve found many, many more of those guys in the compound community.

Every time I hear ' trads are game wounders and shouldn' t be allowed in the woods' I feel like slapping the idiot! The base their entire argument on 3D scores instead of actual wound/loss statistics. However, too many trads decide they won' t shoot at an animal beyond 20 yards and never practice shooting beyond that. Then they go to a 3D shoot and get shots they' ve never practiced for. I wish a lot of trads would expand their horizons and improve their accuracy at longer distances. (Which, by the way, would improve their close range accuracy too.) I' d like to see trad 3D scores take a quantum leap and shut those buttheads up.

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Man you guys got me all mixed up now.... why you ask ? Cause I have a new compound - AND Im building my own R/D Longbow (as some of you have seen my posts) So whats that make me ... Hmmmm.... A Comtrad ? :D:D Ha !

Seriously, I too think there is some seperate mentality between certain types of shooters, and equipment only cannot define the type of hunter you are...... I simply think some people are simply hunters that shoot bows - no matter what type they shoot - wheely bows or stick bows, custom, or production..... and then there are archers - period..... some of us are trad archers, some of us shoot a wheely bow (compound) I personally chose to build a bow because I love shooting bare bow and I miss it. I got back into the whole sport just a few years ago after quite a break because all I did was fish, fish, fish.... and one day I got the archery bug again, and the hunting bug and now I am goin nuts ! But I chose to build my own hybrid longbow because I used to shoot bare bow very well, and after removing the sights off my Bear Code compound one day and shooting it I realized I love to shoot the old way, and I enjoy it a lot more than shooting with sights etc.... I do like shooting my new compound though - I can drivew tacks with it and years ago I could not have imagined shooting CONSISTANTLY at 50-60 yards at a 5" target and scoring as I do now....... (I dont shoot at game theat far only practice) So now the thought of reverting back to where I started is great because there isnt much more challange in regards to archery for me personally - sure I can try to get to the point every shot is a robin hood...... but Im not going to compete so forget it..... I allways wanted to make a bow since I was 15..... and it allways amazed me looking at recurve limbs and wondering how to make one.....so I dreamed about doing it and hunting with it.... That combined with my natural love of archery makes me want to revert back to being ' trad' - and that my friends is what I think its all about - Trad hunters have a natural love for the sport that goes beond simply hunting, a trad hunter loves the tradition, and roots of archery hunting as a whole and therfore challenges himself to do things a little differant, alittle more difficult, and out of that get a little more satisfaction........

Just my 2 cents

Good luck no matter what you do......