What is Traditional Archery?

[dnovo]

Traditional to me is anything that was BC (before compounds). Some people want to confuse this with primitive archery (which it can be but is not necessary)

[Rob DiStefano]

jason,

i s'pose one could write several pages defining in minutiae what is 'a traditional bowhunting broadhead'.  i have in mind a state legal width pointy head with static, exposed sharpened blades of the c-o-c kind.  lots more could be in that definition, but the preceding sentence is the essence of my thoughts and separates from the dynamic heads.    

oh yeah, no chisel points!  :D

what'cha got in mind?

[Traditional-Archer]

I think traditional archery hunting is what every hunter predator takes from it individually.
I don’t think any one of us can tell another traditional archer what it means in general.
We all do what we do because we were led here for our individual reasons. A lot of the stories come close, I know I heard a lot of the stories. I started hunting traditional back when I was a kid, went to compound got tired of that, more like bored with that. I came back to traditional because I love to see the arrow in flight. I love shooting, Love just walking with my bow. Hunting is just a bonus. Sound familiar.

Bruce  

[DngrsDan]

Originally posted by Old York:
It's something to discuss and argue about until
one's mouth is drier than salt, then the bows
come out and arrows start flying, then hot  coffee,
or a cold beer, or a good single-malt is consumed,
then what they were arguing about in the first place is soon forgotten...
 
until someone else joins the group
with their brand spankin' new single-bevel
Scythe Head-'O-SweetDeath 19%+ EFOC BH shot from a 2-strand FF
string with concave bowlimbs made outta Unobtanium;
they're wearing a plaid armguard and ASAT underwear with a Kromer hat
lined with Scent-Lok and carbon shafts stuffed with
silicon-impregnated brass inserts and 4-fletched arrows
(both LW  and  RW!) and then the "VOID" is mentioned vis-a-vis
'deer anatomy' whilst all in the same breath
wood vs. carbon vs. aluminium is mentioned
and it all begins anew

It's "Traditional" and IMHO,
I would not have it any other way;
 welcome to the fray    :D  

[rickshot]

A question that wasn't asked prior to 1970. Rick.