Why are Trad Guys so hostile to other bows?

[The Whittler]

How you dress, look, or talk hasen't anything to do with how you act/interact with people.

So shooting a stick bow or compound has nothing to do with you being a jerk.

[Zdogk9]

Well it's easy. If you can feel superior to the guy having backstrap for breakfast whilst you're chowing down on tag stew because you chose a "purer" way to hunt. That's how you'll roll

[sticbow]

i was a staff shooter for pse for 3 years..our group was told to be quiet many times we had a hell of a time shooting around the 3rd year something happened to me..i quit having fun shooting i was coming home with headaches from the pressure of people expecting me to win..one day i happened to be in nixa mo an went by blackwidow an came home with a recurve i have never looked back.
    the only regret is that i didn't  do it 10 years sooner. i don't think there is a group of people bar none that are better people that would help out damn near strangers than the trad community!!! i have seen it in action
    so let the comments fly..i know the truth..

[tuscarawasbowman]

I see what happened PaddyMac. Sorry about that I fixed it.

[graybark uk]

ive been shooting bows since 1984 (age 18 ) i started with recurves & played with a compound ( hoyt buck )for about a year then went back to the wooden bows . i went on my 1st hunt in 2006 (africa ) with my blackwidow & then again in 2009 ,the same year i lost a dear friend to cancer ( he was comming on the hunt but never made it ) god rest him , he used a compound & before the trip we agreed that on the hunt we`d try each others bows .i went over to compound after the trip & went back to africa with it last august .i took 5 animals with 5 arrows .
the biggest a gemsbok i shot at 20yds (65lb compound )& didnt recover it         my wheel bow`s up for sale & my lovely girlfriend got me a buffalo for xmass        my point i dont think one is better than the other ,just different like all of us