I haven't shot a compound in about 15 years. After 40 or so deer with that type equipment... I "found" trad "again".

I have lots of friends and relatives (including my son) that still shoot them though.

I have NO desire to go back. Have only taken about 8 deer an elk and some small game with the recurve. Working on taking something with my LB now.

Trad only since. 1992            

Trad only for me for the past 6-7 years, but most of the guys I hunt with shoot compounds. Not a lot of trad guys around here.

love to shoot my mathews and my black widow pch too, and will keep shooting both till one wins out, or I don't like shooting one or the other. I do however have a strong feeling that when I get the widow shooting huntable groups , the mathews will be retired. right now I am accurate and consistant to 15 yrd. and working my way outward

I'm like Chromebuck, Love archery, but to get the freezer full, I use 3006... I try with archery... but so far didn't connect with any thing big.... I never draw a compound bow in my life, only trad... On and off for the last 25 years.
I will try again this spring for bear, and next fall for Caribou... but for moose...

Bowhunting is trad only but still gun hunt occasionally.

Over the last 20 years I have primarily 90% of that shot recurve. But there was a period that I did not have time to practice, lost confidence in my abilitys and picked up a compound then got a crossbow.

I love to hunt and average at least 30 days a year in a tree stand. I also like to eat deer meat, thus the wheels. Besides I hate to wound deer and bottom line I did not think myself a good enough shot at those times to stick with the trad equipment.

This year I practiced hard and have hunted with trad only. I got lucky and Killed a 186 buck at MCAAP this year, headed out in about 15min to go try for any deer this morning. Yes I will be hunting today with a warfed black bear with trad tech blackmax limbs.

switched back in 1993/94 only regret is that i went to the dark side to begin with.

Switched to recurves for big game hunting after 34 years with compounds in 2010. I hunt squirrel with .22 PCP air rifle, .22, and .17.  Every year or two I spend opening morning of firearms season with a single shot .308.

I have always kept a current model compound on the rack. About 80% of the reason I do this is "work" related. I am thinking about not spring turkey hunting with my recurve so I'll have a stonger "excuse" for keeping a compound.

I switched to the curve for big game hunting entirely for nolstagic purposes. There were no shooting issues, I was having plenty of fun, challenge, etc. I just love the extra challenge of the recurve and of course the visual and physical "beauty" this equipment delivers.

Except for the draw hand set and a slight canting of the curve, the shooting process from one to the other is exactly the same for me.

Started deer hunting with a recurve when I was 18,got rid of the compound the same year,I'm 42 now.Only have 1 recurve left all the rest are longbows.
I still have a bunch of rifles,but really don't hunt much with them anymore,except a 222 for coyote and fox hunting.Haven't shot a deer with a gun in atleast 15 years.
Have a bunch of shotguns left too,really love side by sides.Still do some duck hunting.
I went to a black powder shotgun for hunting geese,rabbits,squirrels,etc. but got into falconry about 8 years ago and now do 99% of my smallgame hunting with a hawk. Longbows for deer and turkey.

Stik bows only, never had a compound.
Still take the rifle out though, Winchester M94 .30-.30, I think that's pretty trad as well.
We don't have the archery culture up here like you folks in the US. If we had it in school, I think that would have made a difference. Not hard to get a bunch of kids hooked, especially if they can start breaking balloons. Lots of laughter then.

sold all my wheel bows June of this year and never looked back.

Trad only! Started out as a young boy of 11 with a 25# fiberglass recurve, went to the compound in my twenties and thirties, like most, then back to traditional in retirement. The circle of life I guess.

Tom,
Nova Scotia was the first Canadian province to adopt the "National Archery in the Schools Program". Now there are 5 provinces in the program. Alberta and Saskatchewan have the most schools in NASP ... over 100 schools in NASP each!

Don Lohnes of the NS Archery Association is the co-leader of NASP in Nova Scotia with your education department.

I like them all.  Besides, variety is the spice of life.

Trad only the last 30 years!
Hope for 30 more.

I spent my first 15 years in archery as traditional only - that's all there was.  Then in 1975 and for the next 35 years I was a compound guy - actually I didn't know anyone who was still shooting traditional so I wasn't exposed to it.  I had been thinking of going back to traditional when, in 2008, I shared an elk camp with a guy who was hunting with a recurve and decided then and there that I wanted to try it again.  Bought my first longbow in December of that following year -2009 and haven't looked back.  The only time I picked up my compound after that was to hand it over to my son to take with him.  Oh, I had to carry a buddies compound down the mountain last year as he had his hands full of elk - Do you know how HEAVY compounds are now?    :eek:    

I'm trad only for archery. Don't even own a compound anymore, gave it away.......

Sold my compound last year in order to save for a longbow.  No looking back for me.

Shot compounds a couple yrs in the late 70s. Switched to trad and have never looked back. My kids are grown now, they also shoot trad. They don't know any different. lol Its been a great time. Love the sport and the people. No regrets