How long have you been TRAD???

[John in Grayling]

Since 1968, when I got my first Little Bear.

[doubleo]

Started hunting in the mid 70's with a Browning Safari 2. Shot my first deer with a Hoyt Hunt Master i think in 82. Bought my first custom bow an Assenheimer in the late 80's. Been hunting for about 34 years with trad equipment and only 2 years with a compound.

[TDHunter]

20+ years  since I tossed the wheels. Never looked back.

[Stan the bow man]

Threw the wheels away in 1992. Been Trad shooting ever since and have not look back. Still love the romance of the  longbow and wood arrows .  

[akbowbender]

29 years since I last shot wheels. The first bow I got was an American Archery Cheeta. I think it was 60" 75# @ 28". It stacked like the devil at my draw length, which was over 29". Got this deer with it:

[Joshua Polland]

Four years, but the last 2 1/12 has been where it has started to really consume me. I'm sure no one knows what I'm talking about:)

[Roger Norris]

I'm 49, been shooting traditional bows since I was 5 or 6 (still have it, a York green glass bow). I had a 2 season experiment with compounds when I was about 23-24....

As an aside, i still have every recurve I had growing up. The Bear Tigercat I used on my first real hunting day (I was 12) still hangs on my wall.

[b.glass]

Nearly 15 years.

[Mint]

Got my first Longbow in November 1990. Never have shot a compound and don't even want to try.

[Bowwild]

Started with a Pearson Couger around 1967. First hunted big game with it in 1970--killed the first live deer I ever saw with that bow in Oct. 1970. (I didn't live in deer country).

Hunted with recurves until 1975.  Left with most bowhunters that year for the next 26 years. I spent the 2001 season with a Fox High Sierra curve. Went back to my modern ways from 2002 until 2010. This season marks my 2nd year of committed return to recurve bows.

I've 'missed' only one year of bowhunting since I started BG hunting in 1970. I 'boycotted' the 1991 Kansas season the last year I lived there.

[Kelly]

Long before it was called "trad" and before they had "wheels". Next year will be my 50th year bowhunting with recurves.

[lovethehunt]

I lost the wheels in 1994. Still feels great.

[Rock 'N Bow]

Since I missed a slam dunk shot with a compound. About 12 years. I find trad gear more reliable than all the gizmos on a compound. Nothing to get out of whack.

[3arrows]

Back when it was normal,late sixes.

[saltwatertom]

50+ years (but who's counting?). Never heard it called "trad" till I came here.

[sagebrush]

43 years. Back then it was just archery.

[BJP]

10 years. Been hunting 11 only had training weels for one year.

[Friend]

Started in 69 and lost my way in the desert, but not for 40 years, and found my way back to the promised land. The grass grows greener for me on this side of the mountain.

[sheephunter]

Made the switch when my Dad did in 1995. I was thirteen then. Had two compounds and shot them on and off but always had Trad bows. First was a 40# Shakespeare. So 16 years now.

[StickBowManMI]

42 years and counting. Love shooting my longbows. Trad Bows are only bows I have ever shot.