Far rider-
Good group, and I love the yew on your Hill.
There are several issues with new shooters, and the reason they stay away from traditional in the beginning.
1) compounds are mainstream, it's whats advertised and on television.
2) the new shooter gets discourage when they loose arrows.
3) new shooters want instant gratifcation, without practice.
4) new shooters can't beleive that you can hunt with a tradbow.
5) most new shooters have a hardtime drawing a tradbow.
I see more guys leaving compounds coming over to trad then guys just starting with trad. The guy that leaves compounds and starts shooting trad really enjoys archery and wants to get away from all of those gadgets, wrenches, and adjustments that need to be made with compounds. Because they already understand the concept of archery, they fall in love with the simplicity of trad, and the beauty of the bow.
When I'm out shooting my longbow and someone see's my bow, they always are attracted to the different woods, and the bows natural beauty. And then there astounished on how well I shoot my bow. It's kinda funny when your around a bunch of compound shooters, and they say hit that mark over there, and before they have there arrow nocked and sighted in, I already either hit the target with my first arrow or definietly hit it with my second arrow before they where able to take a shot.
Compounds are a great way for compainies to make money because they are able to sell lots of new gadgets year after year, but I feel that compounds ruined the real sport of archery in America. The sport of archery that Saxton, Pope, Maurice and Will Thompson, Howard Hill, Fred Bear, Roy Huff wrote about, when they spent afternoons shooting on their lawns or in the garden.
Darren
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