Trad bows not good enough?

[Dimondback]

One thing I like about this site is that you know without a doubt the people giving you advice or sharing their opinion have actually done or witnessed what they are expressing. Every year that goes by, I get a little more intolerant of those who base their opinions off of an article in a advertising-funded magazine or "what their uncle said" and regurgitating information like an expert rather than putting effort into searching for the truth. I had a similar experience when I told someone I wanted to catch striped bass on a fly rod...the reaction?...."you can't catch them stripers on a trout pole!"...Ignorance is bliss and so on...just take your money and business somewhere else and good luck!

[Swamp Yankee]

Not sure I'd want to hunt with a guide that bad at tracking anyway.

[TaterHill Archer]

I went to Cabelas after Solana to get some new arrows to set up.  I asked to see their Easton spine chart and the girl that runs their archery dept said she didn't have one but she could help. She asked "What poundage?".  I said 50-55.  She then asked what weight head.  I said 175 Gr and from a recurve.  She said, "You might want to consider a lighter head, shooting that from a recurve will make your arrows just fall out of the sky. You won't be able to kill a pig with that."

I said, "Well, I just spent 5 days with a bunch of guys shooting recurves and longbows.  So, I'll have to defer to Izzy since he shot two big hogs with a 47# longbow and 180 grain head and the last time I checked those hogs were killed graveyard dead."  She just looked at me in disbelief and I left.

[Altiman94]

I would go ahead and take your trad bow.  It's not really a 'bow' thing...it's more about kinetic energy.  A trad bow has plenty of KE to effectively take a hog...and as you know...many guys here have done just that.  He's just an educated 'pro shop' owner trying to push his view on you.

[Smithhammer]

Originally posted by roknjs:
I went to Cabelas after Solana to get some new arrows to set up.  I asked to see their Easton spine chart and the girl that runs their archery dept said she didn't have one but she could help. She asked "What poundage?".  I said 50-55.  She then asked what weight head.  I said 175 Gr and from a recurve.  She said, "You might want to consider a lighter head, shooting that from a recurve will make your arrows just fall out of the sky. You won't be able to kill a pig with that."

Had a similar experience at another big box chain last week. The person was definitely knowledgeable when it came to compound equipment, but when I was asking for some advice on a particular make/model of shaft, the look on her face when I told her I shoot a 275 gr. head was priceless. She just went blank, like she had never heard of such a thing in her life. And when I asked if they carried 100 gr. brass inserts, I may as well have asked her in what aisle I would find the beluga caviar.

Oh well. It's not surprising. We represent a very small part of the market. But that's why I don't usually bother with buying anything in those places.

It is almost like some compound company is spreading disinformation and they are just repeating it without thinking, like news readers do.