Most of our shoots are set up by the open class compound shooters, so we get hammered before we even nock an arrow. 30 yard shots at a turkey, LOL is not unheard of.
It is hard to get trad shooters to participate because of the low scores they have. I think the low scores are mainly caused by poor target placement for traditional shooting, which at many stations means Foam is good.
We need to work with the organizers to set up the stakes for trad so that we can expect to be able to shoot an 8 , not just hope to hit foam, and we can expect more participation.
There is a trend at shoots to not keep score, and some shoots have no scoring at all like the Longbow Safari. This makes no sense at all.Scoring is the only way to know if you are improving, and to see just how well you shoot compared to the other shooters.
The concept of taking long shots and if you miss it's "ok" because you are not expected to hit does nothing to help your shooting.
I hear no score fans say that shots are to close and easy when we get a course at reasonable distances for the target sizes, but I don't see them shooting any X rings. They seem to prefer a long shot that they think they should miss , so there is a reasonable excuse, to be crawling thru the bush looking for arrows.
Hopefully this season we can see some courses here that will allow some good scores to be posted, and even see a trad guy in the end of the match shoot off.
Pete