Welcome to the Trad world. I have been shooting a Recurve for over 5 years seriously and I picked upmy old compound this winter when I could not draw my recurve due to shoulder problems. I have since put it back on the self but each bow has it pleasurable side when shooting them, I am glad I shot it again this winter and got to know it again. I may not shoot it for another 5 years but I will still hang onto it.

Eric

LBR you may consider donating that compound if your not using it anymore. I did mine that sat in the basement for years. I gave it to Steve Prey of Benifit for Kids and he turned it over to Windsong ranch where it will be used for kids who are terminally ill at the ranch. One mans junk is anothers treasure.

Well, I'll keep my comments about steve to myself, or at least off this board.......but I don't think I'll be donating it to anyone else either. It's so old that I don't think anyone would want it even as a donation--wood limbs, flipper rest, dacron string, steel cables, no way to mount a mechanical rest or overdraw on it. Not a lot of let-off, and I think the draw is 32" or 33". It's got a bit of sentimental value to me also--one of these days I'll give it to my son and let him laugh about it.

Chad

Guys NEVER say never. I statred years ago, many many years ago, shooting a recurve for fun. Was all there was in them days. Recurves that is. Started hunting in 1970 with a Bear White Tail compound. Went back to stick and string about twenty years ago. I have been plagued with arthritus since I was seventeen. Ask Chad. He knows I look like a question mark when I stand up! Last year it hit me that with the on set of really cold weather in Ohio I was having a very hard time pulling my 60# recurve. I dropped to 46# and was still having a hard time so I bought an Onida (sp) compund. It looks like a recurve with cams. Well any way, how I hunt has not change. In my heart I still hunt traditionally.
I have said it before, it is not what some one has in their hands but what lives in their inner being that a traditional bowhunter. A recurve or longbow just makes it easier to recognize them.