Me to,DesertDude

Greg,
You pretty much summed up my feelings about trad archery for me too. I was just bored with all the high tech stuff. The thing that Me and Mason found out real quick is, how hard it is to quit shooting once you start. I used to go out like you and shoot 20-30 arrows with the compound and was totally bored. We started two winters ago in Jan shooting trad and that time of year it gets dark about the time I get home from work. Mason woud be watching for me to come down the drive, I would get out and tell him, " Mason it will be dark in 5 minutes ". "Let's not shoot today ". " He would simply reach in the garage , hand me my Morrison, and we would race each other to the target !!!

You are also correct about the trad folk as well. Nicest people I ever met !!! Everyone is more than willing to help each other in life as well as this great sport. I cannot think of a better way to spend time with Mason than trad archery. Ya'll mean a lot to us, we count our blessings each day !

nocams

I hunted a ranch in South texas several years ago.There were 5 other hunters there,all with modern equipment.When I pulled my longbow out of it`s sleave one asked "What is that,a spear".I said no It`s my bow. He replied "No really,what is it".I said again,its my hunting bow.He said "As much as it costs to hunt this ranch and that`s all you brought".He seemed to have no grasp of what it was capable of.He said he had been in archery a few years and had never seen one before.I`m sure he had gone to an archery shop and bought exactly what they told him he needed.What a shame,he was a very nice young man.

I'm not anti-wheel, myself. I simply have trouble understanding, sometimes, why anyhone would want to burden themselves with all of the techno-gear that seems to go with using a compound bow. I mean, are they really so unsure of themselves, that they have to have all that stuff to make sure they hit what they aim at?

Give me a stick, an arrow and some twine -- and I will do some archery.