What would you have changed in your Trad journey.

[Steve O]

I would find a Rod Jenkins shooting class and learn the right way the first time!  Teaching yourself from books, magazines, video, and the internet is a mess waiting to happen.  It is SO much better to invest in having a PERSON stand next to you and help you over the little things that make a big difference.  I wish I had someone around that could have taught me "old time archery" and form the way Rod does.

[awbowman]

I would have started earlier.

[TaterHill Archer]

I would have started with Trad and kept it that way.  If I have it my way, my son will never shoot a compound bow.  He loves his longbow and I want to keep it that way.

[Bladepeek]

Sure as heck wish I had started toward the beginning of my life instead of the other end. I couild be really good now if I'd started 60 or 65 years ago   :(

[elkhunter45]

I would have stuck it out with my trad equipment. Started in 1980 with a BP recurve, but used compounds from 88-96. eight years I'll never get back. Oh well......

[PA stickbow boy]

I probably would NOT have passed on great close shots on some smaller bucks and got a few more traditional harvests under my belt.

[stagetek]

I should have started with a 40# bow instead of a 50+#er. I wouldn't have wasted so much time trying to replace bad habits with good one's.

[LEWIS VADEN]

I would have started a lot earlier in life and shot left handed.  (left eye dominant)

[GreyGoose]

1) I wouldn't have taken the break between 18 and 40 years of age, and (2) would have started back with trad gear rather than compounds at 40.  I also wish I had gotten hold of better arrows in my youth, because consistently weighted/spined/straight arrows make it a lot easier to figure out what you're doing.  The biggest thing would have been to get the other 2/3 of my kids into (thank you #1 Daughter), but no one can say I haven't tried!

[Hoyt]

If I did it over again I wouldn't switch from recurve to compound. I wasted a lot of yrs. shooting bows I didn't enjoy. I enjoy just shooting my recurve, targets or whatever. That was not the case with compounds and especially using a release. I only shot targets with them right before the season and it was more like something I had to do to get ready.

[adamgti]

Thought about my lower limb more while hunting and started with a stick earlier

[tuscarawasbowman]

Learned good proper form and routine when I started.

[Danny Rowan]

NADA

[PaddyMac]

Wish I'd bought the Brackenbury Legend at the Portland sports show from the man himself after interviewing Larry D. Jones even though it was way more than I could afford ... instead of getting the OW discount on the Browning compound.

Wish I wasn't so shy in asking for help when I finally bought the Bob Lee and seriously over-bowed myself. It was 14 years of tendonitus before I wised up.

[TSchirm]

I would have started sooner, not gone wheels for awhile, and not gotten so busy to limit my trad time for a bunch of years.

[Charlie Lamb]

If I could change something, I would remove the truck accident I had in the 80's and the resulting broken neck.

It impacted my ability to hunt, my accuracy and the ability to handle the heavy bows I loved so much.Kinda like Raging Waters loves his only humble.
   :D

[Ragnarok Forge]

I would have stayed trad the entire time.

[kennyb]

Good one Tim! If I could change anything I should have stayed with the recurve all these years instead of being led astray because of the compound bow for thirty years! I just think about how much a better woodsman I could have become. But, like you said, life is about learning and sometimes you make mistakes! lol
How I love trad hunting now! Yea!

Kennyb    

[Turkeys Fear Me]

I would have given even  LESS  credence to how others define "traditional."

[Gordon Jabben]

When r&d bows came out, I wish I had stayed with the "D" style bows.  I'm having a hard time going back to the "D" bow even though I enjoy shooting them more.