I know the feeling. I went fully tradtional (sold the compound) in 2003. I built my own recurve and hunted with it for 2 years and took a fine doe with it. My Dad/hunting partner passed away in March of 2006, and was unable to hunt in 2005, so deer season really didn't mean much to me anymore without him being there with me. I never gave up hunting, just deer hunting. I moved onto birds. I took many pheasants, turkey geese and even a hen mallard with my Howard Hill longbow to the amazemant of all my hunting buddies, and often my own. My boys are starting to get the bug, and I would never turn them the other way. They both outshoot me in the back yard often, and they both have joined me this year back in "The Saddle" deer hunting.
I have imposed a ground hunting only rule, due to a fall I took back in 2001. I broke my anke 1/2 mile from my truck while doing something stupid. It was a very long crawl on hands and knees to the truck then I had a 3 1/2 hour drive home using my left foot for the gas and break (try doing that one just for 1 mile and you will see some of my pain). I never gave up, but I did however evolve my hunting skills.
Is it more difficult hunting from the ground? You betcha, but it is just another obsticle I have to figure out how to overcome. That's half the fun of it. I could sit in a bar and talk about how it used to be, or just forget hunting altogether, but why? I love being in the woods watching mother nature wake up, or putting her to bed. There are so many things that you can never see from a bar stool, or the couch just begging all of us to partake in. Just get outside. It's a great place to be.