GOING TRAD

[KyRidgeRunner]

One more reason I started.  In 2009 I made a perfect stalk on about 12 turkeys.  All hens non the less awesome for the table!  My personal favorite wild game to eat.  I made the stalk I in 4 inches of snow and got got to a good spot to where I new I could make the shot.  I picked the bird I wanted and my release was froze together!  Couldn't shoot!.  So I put it in my mouth to thaw it out     once it was thawed enough to open I came to full draw and my fall away rest was frozen down to the riser!     So made it back to the truck in dectected by the turkeys.  By the time I'd it tere my hands were so cold I couldn't fell my keys in my pocket!  So after a two handed attempt I got my keys out and managed to openy truck door and warm my hands and let all my Equiptment thaw!  Fast foward 20 minutes and I make the same stalk get back on the same group of birds and again the same two malfunctions!  

This was kind of an eye opener... All of this could've been prevented with a simple stick and string and maybe a pair of insulated neoprene lives for crawling in the snow.

[KyRidgeRunner]

Just read my above post and realized my auto correct changed and butchered the majority of it.  I hope you guys got the idea.  If not I'll sum it up: two perfect stalks and no shots due to gadget malfunction and may have turned out differently had I been using a simple stick and string!

[DarkTimber]

I started shooting a recurve long before I made the switch completely to traditional.  I'd hunt with my compound until late season then hunt does with my recurve.  I couldn't stand the thought of missing an opportunity at a big buck during the rut because I was using a recurve.

Then one day I was hunting the rut here in AR with my compound and a beautiful 10pt chased a doe in front of me and stopped in an opening at 50yds.   I had practied regularly out to 70 and I had all the confidence in the world I could make the shot.  I shot him, he ran 20yds and tipped over. I didn't get excited, I didn't shake, I felt nothing.  As I walked up and put my hands on that beautiful 150" 10pt I was still emotionless.  I knew right then he would be the last deer I ever shot with a compound.

The next year after a long summer of practice I shot my first doe with my recurve and I was shaking like that 12 yr old boy shooting at his first deer.

[trad_bowhunter1965]

To me it is all about the hunt and I think that hunting with a traditional bow makes you hunt smarter. Shooting game at 60+ yards with a compound takes some skill but trying to get Stickbow close now takes mad skills.

[Wagstaff]

I still have a 42 year old Damon Howatt recurve my parents gave me for my birthday.  A neighbor suggested it.
Thus began a lifelong adventure!..

Yes I have also been down the road with compounds, still have one around.. But I have a bunch of recurves and longbows that I truely covet.

Lately, my son and I have started calling it a "Disease"..  With no known cure!..  Only Regular Treatments can help..lol

[RC]

I hunt with what I enjoy hunting with. Killing or not killing stuff has nothing to do with it. I hunted with a compound a couple years a long time ago and it was fun but not as much fun as hunting with a trad bow. It has made me a better hunter and so far knock on wood I have not been skunked since I started hunting at the age of 13. Thats been 40 plus years.. RC

[md126]

I just enjoy trad bows. Are they more challenging? Probably... BUT I don't think killing deer with a compound is the same as shooting targets. I love how people here make it se like any deer that gets within 60yds is toast. Ridiculous