a strange ? for all tradgang hunters

[hunterace]

in your opinion...
does someone harvesting an animal, using a recurve or a longbow, but using aluminum or carbon arrows ... in you mind decrease their accomplishment?
what i'm trying to ask is if taking an animal with a stick and wooden arrows is better than a stick and carbon? or is it equal in your mind?
just curious on everyone's opinion

[wingnut]

nope,  Now if you ask if it's a bigger deal to take one with a selfbow that you built and arrows that you made from scratch and knapped heads you made yourself.

I'd say yes,  but if your buying the trad equipment and hunting with a modern glass or carbon bow, the arrow choice is all the same.


Mike

[TOEJAMMER]

Short answer, "No".  I think if you start getting too specific, then you need take it to the ultimate conclusion.  Wood arrows, then tapered or not; footed or not; laminated or not; type wood or not; etc.  Stick, string and arrow is about it.  Besides, the accomplishment and the satisfaction is to the individual.

[BOWMARKS]

This has been up a few times , what ever you shoot the best is the bullet for you!!

[LongStick64]

Not at all, the choice of equipment still requires the skill of an archer to complete the shot. As long as you are not reducing the draw weight or using a device to assist in release, it's all trad to me.

[Al Natural]

No it doesn't decrease the accomplishment.  Hunting is a personnel choice, it shouldn't matter to the choice of your equipment. What works for you and makes you a better Shot equals out to cleaner kills and less lost game.
Al

[hunterace]

well i asked simply because i'd love to take a deer with wooden arrows, mabey even with a stone point. however i know that even with really good wooden arrows, there is no way they can last as long as carbon arrows. i could be wrong, but i doubt it. i changed years back from aluminum to carbon, and unless you top an arrow or shoot a rock or tree they last along time. i was just curious on what others thought

[Steve H.]

A smidgen.

[iacornfed]

No. It is hard enough to get within range. You have to learn to shoot whatever arrows you use. They still need to be tuned to your setup.

[straitera]

Each person has value & confidence in their setup no better or worse than the next. If you got'em smoke'em.

[ron w]

Thats one even I can answer....NO!

[George D. Stout]

It may be more special to you.  Jay Massey loved building his own bows and using river cane arrows, topped with hand knapped points.  I'm sure it was very special to Jay when he took a moose with his 75# hickory selfbow, and stone tips.  Only you can answer that question.

That said, Fred Bear used fiberglass arrows in the early 50's, then went to aluminum in the 1960's.  I would never question that choice either. 8^).

[don kauss]

Personal choice to me...I feel better shooting wood, and in truth, I personally think shooting a traditional bow with carbon arrows is an oxy-moron. However, where DO we draw the line??? If you REALLY want to go FULL TRAD, you'd either walk or ride a horse out to your hunting area...your clothing would be brain-tanned hide...you'd knapp your heads and knife...etc., etc.

[Shakes.602]

We wont Hold It Against Ya Buddy!!  

[Wannabe1]

NO.

[fling]

A clean kill is the top priority of a hunter. so use what works best for you to insure humane kills.

[Richie Nell]

If not splitting hairs....then NO there is not difference.

If you want to split hairs...then MAYBE a little more for the wooden arrow hunter only because wooden arrows are a little harder to get straight and weight the same, etc.

[Pat B]

I hunt with what I want to hunt with, not what others think I should hunt with. For me, I want it as simple but effective as possible. By simple I mean self bow, cane or hardwood shoot arrows with stone or trade points. What anyone else hunts with is up to them. Hunting like other things in life  is a personal thing. As long as it is done ethically it doesn't matter to me what others use.

[sbschindler]

I think some people confuse traditional archery with primitive archery

[hunterace]

i understand that a clean kill is always what we each strive for. with that being said i feel that i can make an accurate shot regardless of the choice of arrow. mabey i'm coming off cocky but i think that i can kill a deer or whatever with a wooden arrow same as with as a carbon. i see all too often people blaming their equipment for not recovering or getting their game, most of which is blamed on the broadheads. nothing beats a well placed shot. i guess i was looking more at when do you cross the line and it's not consider trad hunting. at least in your opinions