How Traditional are you really?

[lpcjon2]

When I think of traditional archery I see a wooden bow,wooden arrows and a back quiver. So tell me what gear you really use that is made of  traditional material (wood and leather).Let the fun begin.    

[joekeith]

[lpcjon2]

Someone has to get the fire started.LOL

[huntin_sparty]

I guess I am only 1/3 traditional to according to this poll.  Wood, Carbon and bow quiver.  Read the article in trad bow about back quivers but the 2 Ive owned I spend more time picking up arrows than stump shooting!

[Cyclic-Rivers]

I always use my  back quiver, just dont hunt with it!

[Osage61]

Trad wool hood; Trad long hunter wool shirt; trad wool sash; throwing hawk; back quiver; wooden arrows; osage longbow; osage handled camp knife; All made in the good old U.S. of A. for this traditionalist Canadian. ( I look the part but I haven't taken anything yet even though I've been trying, sorry)
   

[Steve Clandinin]

I guess opinions vary as to your topic ,Traditional to me has a lot more to do with attitude and mindset than just equipment alone.

[ishoot4thrills]

So does a wood/glass bow count as a wood bow or "other" material? It has both.

[ron w]

....as I pack my metal riser ILF bow for a club meeting......

[Osage61]

Originally posted by Steve Clandinin:
  I guess opinions vary as to your topic ,Traditional to me has a lot more to do with attitude and mindset than just equipment alone.  

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Yup it's a feeling I get when I go out into the woods for hunting or bushcraft. If it's wood and leather that gets you there or carbon and aluminum; just get there.    

[Winterhawk1960]

Originally posted by Steve Clandinin:
I guess opinions vary as to your topic ,Traditional to me has a lot more to do with attitude and mindset than just equipment alone.

I'm with you Steve    

I am also wondering if "fiberglass" is considered another material ??? It sure isn't wood........    I had to vote for "other materials" because I don't own a bow that doesn't have fiberglass in it.

Winterhawk1960

[Jake Diebolt]

Most of the time when people mention "traditional", they mean 'pre-compound'. I mean we're not all shooting hand-crafted wooden arrows with flint tips off the knuckle on a self bow. Some of us are, it's true. But the rest of us are using a mixture of modern materials and older stuff. That's fine by me. It'd be a funny old world if we were all alike.

To start splitting hairs over what is traditional or not is probably pointless, and in the end, arbitrary. If you shoot wood arrows out of a selfbow, someone else will shoot hand-knapped flint tips off the knuckle, with deer-gut bowstring. Does that mean you're not a traditional shooter? Not in my books.

For me, traditional is about self-reliance. No sights, no let off. The energy of the arrow is 100 percent ours, and we pay a price in effort to send it on its way. Traditional is about watching the arrow go and know that, no matter the outcome, the only thing guiding that arrow is you.

Hopefully, that's something we can agree on.

[huntin_sparty]

Originally posted by Jake Diebolt:
Most of the time when people mention "traditional", they mean 'pre-compound'. I mean we're not all shooting hand-crafted wooden arrows with flint tips off the knuckle on a self bow. Some of us are, it's true. But the rest of us are using a mixture of modern materials and older stuff. That's fine by me. It'd be a funny old world if we were all alike.

To start splitting hairs over what is traditional or not is probably pointless, and in the end, arbitrary. If you shoot wood arrows out of a selfbow, someone else will shoot hand-knapped flint tips off the knuckle, with deer-gut bowstring. Does that mean you're not a traditional shooter? Not in my books.

For me, traditional is about self-reliance. No sights, no let off. The energy of the arrow is 100 percent ours, and we pay a price in effort to send it on its way. Traditional is about watching the arrow go and know that, no matter the outcome, the only thing guiding that arrow is you.

Hopefully, that's something we can agree on.

Nice job I agree, Jake!

[Osage61]

Ya that was well put Jake.  

[Shawn Leonard]

I am not traditional at all according to your definition and I do not believe the results either. There is now way that many shooting a wood bow, wood bow would be a self bow and not that many on here are shooting one. I bet most contain fiberglass or carbon. I think all these polls and question as to what is traditional are a big joke, that is why I responded. Jake has it fairly close, the sight comment is no doubt wrong, sights have been in use or tried for hundreds of years! Shawn

[huntin_sparty]

Good point Shawn,  should change mine.  I guess I am 0 - 3 my bows have fiberglass, no selfbows!

[Osage61]

   

[johnis]

i am with Jake Diebolt and i think of myshelf as a traditional archer

[Steve Clandinin]

Great philosophy Jake and very well said.

[JohnnyWayne]

^^What Jake said