Originally posted by Mo. Huntin:
I was shooting a compound for a long time. I picked up an issue of traditional bowhunter magazine and loved it, the magazine showed me just how succesful this hunting can be. I somehow found this website and These people have taught me so much. I would have given up a long time ago had I not found tradgang.
Same here.
I originally started shooting a bow in 1992 when because of my profession, I knew I needed a hobby and not caring for golf, decided to buy a used compound at a pawn shop and started shooting as a stress relief from work.
Since I didn't know jack diddly about archery, I started buying magazines like Bowhunter and also Traditional bowhunter. I learned volumes from these magazines and realized people could and do kill animals cleanly and effeciently with them.
But reading the Trad. Bowhunter mags always amazed me and at the time, it was out of my league to think I could shoot a trad bow, even though I did as a child. It wasn't until 4 years later, that the drive to shoot a trad bow became too much and I bought a Dick Boss longbow.
I have been thru several bows since that first Boss longbow, but they have always been trad bows and I haven't looked back since I stopped shooting my compound!
My only regret is waiting those four years that I didn't think I could shoot a trad bow.
Trad bows, for me, are so much more fun to shoot, and now I get to have adventures like the ones I used to read about authors like Don Thomas going on!