Traditional only year

[Yewbender]

I put the training wheel bow away 10 years ago, im on my 3rd year with traditional and wish id done it sooner. No kills yet but im having a blast and not looking back!!!

[VictoryHunter]

Do what makes you happy! I love traditional but I also enjoy using whatever tool there happens to be a season for.

[8upbowhunter]

A few years ago a friend of mine made a longbow and gave it to me as a gift. The draw weight is 45# and he wanted to cut a little off of the ends to get it closer to 50# so I gave it back. After 4 years of waiting I asked him if he had done anything to it and he said he just couldn't make himself cut it so I asked for it back which he did at the end of January of this year. In February my son bought a recurve so we started tinkering with them learning as we went. I bought a 60# Bear Grizzly in February of this year and started shooting both bows and learning how to tune them (mostly from you guys). I am going on an elk hunt in September and my plan was to use my compound for that hunt then switch to the recurve for our deer season. Well the more I shot it the more I liked it so a few weeks ago I decided I will be hunting elk with my recurve but will bring my wheel bow only as a backup in case something happens to my recurve. I have been hunting big game bow only the past 9 years and love it but I have not been this excited about bow hunting since I shot my first deer with a bow in 1985. Now my poor wheel bow sits in the closet collecting dust. I took it out a couple months ago and shot 3 arrows from it, put it back into storage and went shoot my trad bows.

[Cyclic-Rivers]

I hunt most of the time with my bow but usually one or two times a year I will take the shot gun for rabbits.  last year I took it out 1 time after the snow was over waist high. every shot with a bow would have been a lost arrow.

I think you will enjoy your time in the woods more once you take the plunge, Let us know if you do and how you like it   :cool:

[Wannabe1]

Whatever you do, good luck and enjoy the hunt!

[KyStickbow]

I sold my compound a couple years ago. I kill just as many critters with my longbow as I did with the wheel bow....and have alot more fun doing it!

[Steve Jr]

I sold the wheels back in 89 to buy a recurve hunted it for 2 yrs bought my first longbow in 91 and that is what I shot my first deer with! I have never looked back. There is just something about these bows that become a part of you, I don't know what it is but I like it. Give it a try and let us know how you do. Hope you have a great season.

Steve

[Possum Head]

Had more fun giving my compounds away than I did killing deer with them. I'll hunt with a rifle when it's raining but use that time more to study up on where the critters are for another day. Any day in the woods is an education.

[Msbow]

I went traditional only a few years ago and hunting has never been the same. It's the only way I really enjoy hunting anymore.

[Msbow]

I went traditional only about 5 years ago and hunting has never been the same. I can't even hunt with anything else anymore.