Curious  which areas of the U.S. have a heavy involvement with recurves and longbows.

Here in my home state of Mn. It's spotty at best in fact when someone asks if you bowhunt they're already assuming compound. I explain I hunt with traditional equipment.Its like they dismiss it as a useless cause.

From my limited experience, I have my own ideas about which areas have the most trad hunters.

I would have to say that Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Ohio have the most...but not sure who wins here.

Other eastern and mid-west states fall into the second tier, while the South and far west bring up the rear.

We have fair numbers here in the Northwest, but I think we are still far behind the other states.

OK, how am I doing?

We need a what state are you from poll!!!!

I am guessing that Rob can run a query on his data base.  But that would just show what state has the most Trad gangers and not necessarily the most trad hunters.
ChuckC

QuoteOriginally posted by archer66:
We need a what state are you from poll!!!!

Yup, good idea. New York longbow hunter here.

I don't think I've run into another person carrying a traditional bow here in my area in the last 15-20 years. I know there are a few traditional hunters around, but it seems that the vast majority of hunters here shoot a wheel bow.

Bob

We seem kind of spotty here in MN.  The only ones I run into are at the shoot in Coon Rapids.

Yep, a poll here only shows what state has the most TG'ers...BUT a contact with Traditional Bowhunters and TradArcher's World magazines could reveal even more.  If you are nice and tell them it's a research project, they may be able to tell you quickly which states have the most subscribers.  

I am sure every state will have more wheelie shooters than trad, but the results would be interesting.

Less than 1 percent of the deer killed with archery equipment in Illinois, are taken with traditional bows.

However; in our group of 5 bow hunters, all of us got a deer last season with trad equipment, on the same property. I suspect the success rate for trad bows hunters in Illinois
Is at least as good as the other bowhunters.

Michigan...Hands Down Winner

I have to agree with Mike. Michigan

I was surprised to find a lot of Traditional archers in Colorado.

Pennsylvania has to be up there I would think.

Michigan has sooooo many bowyers. I think we would win.

I have only met one person here in Kentucky that shot traditional...an older gentlemen that actually sparked my traditional interest 4-5 years ago. Other than that everyone I know is from this site.

I bet there's a total of 10 in Utah and I don't know any of em.

I would say MI. as well.Thier is long history here of traditional bow hunting in MI.Fred Bear's influence has alot to do with this I am sure.Deer hunting with trad bows here was pretty popular before the advent of the compound in MI.

I think the recruitment of new trad archers since the resergance of traditional bowhunters in the mid 80s to 90s has been very strong in MI.

Gotta be PA.

QuoteOriginally posted by screamin:
I bet there's a total of 10 in Utah and I don't know any of em.

Bet we could have a horse race    

You say about ten trad archers in Utah; I say we have at least a dozen in AZ.

I would venture to guess that the ratio of trad to modern bowhunters would not be too variant from state to state so the state with the most bowhunters would also be the state to have the most trad bowhunters