How do you approach converting a compound shooter...

[JEFF B]

hey bro i would just run his wheel bow over that should do the trick  

[Weekend Warrior]

Just let him shoot yours for awhile.  
That should do the trick if he's interested.

[LKH]

You're probably your own worst enemy on this.  The more you pressure, the more they push back.  I went to a compound for a few years and probably would have gone back if my father-in-law would have backed off.  

Eventually went back, but I think it would have been quicker if all the trad guys had just let it be.  I never liked the compound, but stubborn is my middle name.

[el_kirk]

Conversions just don't make much sense to me if you have to persuade them.  

Have they tried to convert you?  Did you give it a try?

[Shawn Leonard]

First get him a bow to shoot. Make it fun but also challenge him. Tell him ya doubt he could shoot well enough to hunt with a stick and string but with practice he just might. Than start shooting with him and give him advice and make him feel confident after a while, I   believe he will be hooked. Shawn

[vermonster13]

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

[BowHuntingFool]

I agree with some of the others, don't push it on him, he'll go the other way. This was my 1st deer season with trad gear and a couple of buddies kept asking me, you really still taking out the longbow, really, even during the rut??? This made me not want to pick my compound up even more, they kept trying to push me back to my compound. Why?? I have no idea, kinda funny nI was the only one to kill a buck this past season!

[AdamH]

Give him that Crow Creek for an hour !! That should do it !!

[Steelhead]

Got friends I hunt with who shoot compounds.I never have tried to convert them.Thy have not tried to convert me either.If they wanted to do it they would.They have seen me shoot alot and seen that its an effective tool but show no interest.Maybe its in the blood or its not.

[Lt. Dan]

"You still got your training wheels on?"  

[Lt. Dan]

Seriously, don't try to convert.  People hunt for different reasons.  I feel that there is more satisfaction when I leave the gun powder and training wheels at home.  Like someone else said, let them shoot yours, no pressure, all fun.

[30coupe]

I don't try to convert anyone to anything. Compounds aren't for me, but stick bows aren't for everyone either. I accept that. No one I hunt with uses a compound, but several of my friends do. That's fine with me.

[Benny Nganabbarru]

Yep, don't even try. Just let them do their thing, and you do your thing, and they may or may not catch the bug. Three of my bowhunting mates in Katherine have all caught the bug. We'd go target shooting and hunting together, and they'd bring their compounds and I'd have my recurve or longbow, and they just decided that they'd have lots of fun and challenge with trad gear too.

[Bjorn]

Gotta' ask-why would you bother? I mean who cares?
He's doing his thing and we do ours. How would you react if a compound shooter wanted to 'convert' you?
To each his own-plenty of room for us all.

[toddster]

I have found as already stated, the stick and string works it's own magic.  I have had several people older and younger be drawn to the mystic alure of how "do you shoot that thing".  Bowfishing has converted alot.  One thing for sure like most of us, usually a person comes to the crossroads of wanting a little more challenge or more fullfillment.  Let them see the arrow fly and the mystic path and life of the arrow will work its great magic.

[Mo. Huntin]

The best way I know to have a good time with tradbows under low pressure is bow fishing, stump shooting and flu flus for shooting thrown targets out of the air.  Once you are bit you will almost have to try the challenge of a deer or turkey where I am from anyway.

[BMG]

dry fire

[Mo. Huntin]

Better not be a Hoyt you try to dry fire or you may have to do it more times than you think.

[Brian Krebs]

I think the way I have 'converted' people to traditional bows was by letting them shoot one in a relaxed atmosphere.

 I think piking their interest is a better way of looking at it.

 However- when someone with a compound has spat in my face: that trad bows are "not for hunting"... well that has led me to comments and actions that perhaps were not correct... but were fun.
 Example: when I pulled into a parking lot in a controlled hunt area; I was laughed at by two guys with compounds. They told me that I should not be allowed to hunt with my recurve. I asked if they were trying for a big buck or a buck period.. and they said "any buck". They laughed at me as I walked off.
 Later though; at dusk; I met them again at the parking lot; and asked if they had gotten a deer.
 "No- what's your point?" they asked.
 I tossed them the heart of a buck I shot and told them to notice the hole in the middle of it.
  Not the way to convert anyone- and probably not an appropriate thing to do.
  I enjoyed it tremendously though....

[BigRonHuntAlot]

I appreciate all the thoughts and comments so far and I was using the term convert loosely. IF you go back and read my post I said convert or introduce.
 I know not to push it on folks and have never done that. I was merely searching for ideas or stories from your experiences with success on the matter.

  I don't know that he'll ever take the chance though...