I have a friend and coworker who's been a long time compound hunter. Over the past year he's listened to me talk about my "obsession" with traditional archery with a grain of salt (or so I thought).
A couple of weeks ago he said to me, "My dad has this old recurve in the garage..." I told him to dig it out and we would take a look at it. It turned out to be an old Shakespeare Necedah, #45, in very good condition. I told him it would be a great bow to to learn to shoot with and gave him a list of what he would need.
Well, yesterday he showed up at my house with the bow, shafts from Big Jim's, and a box from 3 Rivers. We fletched up some arrows and went to it. He was suprisingly good and by the end of our time together he was grinning from ear to ear and had set a goal to kill a deer with "Dad's bow" this year.