how did u get into trad

[Bill Carlsen]

Well, in 1950 something that's all there was.

[Cyclic-Rivers]

I started with a Bear Grizzly. It was my father's old bow.  When my Brother Broke it, I bought a compound because they looked cool, my friends were shooting them and I could afford it at a garage sale.  

Archery became boring!  Then I found a 30 lb stick bow at a local sale for 20 bucks. Bought a string for it, it exploded. I fixed it and shot it. Its all downhill from there.

I over paid for that bow but then again it opened a can of worms that I wouldn't trade for the world.

I must also admit the actual moment was at a fair, I took my cousins kid nephew to the 4H archery booth. I shot their recurve lights out. they were giving me extra arrows and picking out parts of targets for me to hit. I was having so much fun, I wanted to keep it up, that's when I found the old bow stated earlier.

[rdoggsilva]

When I started archery back in 1965, it was the only game in town. Never did go to a compound, like my boys but I still love them.  

[GRINCH]

All there was when I started shooting,went to compound but didn't feel comfortable with it,when I got out of the navy my brother who also just converted back sent me an old pearson recurve never looked back.

[thumper15]

I had a couple reasons for going to trad. First, I missed having a shot at a nice 8pt cause I didn't have enough time to get the pin on him. Couple days later when I saw him on my way to my blind I heard a truck slam on the brakes right where the buck had been when I saw him and guns started popping off like WWIII. Second, I got tired of the weight and everytime I shot the bow at the range things would vibrate loose or always had to adjust things to keep it tuned. Finally, I have more fun shooting trad less frustrating to me.