Your main reason behind why you "HUNT" with your Traditional Bows?

[NJSwampstalker]

I didn't switch from compound hunting for the challenge, and I didn't switch because of nostalgia.  For me, it was simply a matter of enjoyment.  Practicing with my compound wasn't fun any more.  When I started shooting a recurve, I felt like I was fifteen again, and I couldn't wait to shoot.  It brought back the joy!

[darin putman]

Simply because it's simple!!!!!

[critter69]

I started trad because, I had bought a compound and had some minor problems shortly after. Took it back to same dealer I bought it from, and it was covered under warrenty. They would not give me the part to fix it myself. And charged me 200.00. I got so pissed off. I bought a morrison from a gental man on here and that started it. But the simplicity(gadget wise)is great. But does limit my range and make things" harder".Oh and also I love looking at a nice piece of"wooden Art". And now have started making my owen bows,wich I could never have done with a compund.

[LITTLEBIGMAN]

there are NO other kind of bows, everything is are machines, i don't use machines to hunt with

[Wiley Coyote]

I don't know any better!!!!  

[monk]

The self-imposed challenges-Longbow; ground; and me.

[Kingsnake]

I am new to trad and I made the switch because I realized HOW is much more important to me than HOW MANY.

Kingsnake

[GANDGOLF]

It's making the SHOT when it counts.. Can I perform when at the precise moment! Everyone's life is slipping away 1 second at a time,HOW good are you at THIS time?  If you're using a rifle or compound ,it's Not on YOU.  

[Scott J. Williams]

Watching films of Howard Hill, Ben Pearson, Fred Bear, and others shoot feathered shafts through the air got me hooked! The mystical flight of a feathered shaft was strangely addicting, and I found myself trapped in it's grip.

Even before I attended a "Boy Scout" camp in Northwest Michigan in 1966, I had been shooting traditional bows for a couple of years.  You see, there was no "Compounds" available when I began. However, when they showed up, I fought it until I was a young man in the service of our country. It was 1977 when I began a ten year seduction of the "sting gun."  During that time, I lost the feeling that I was apart of the process. That new fangled bow was a hunk of metal, with cables, and cams that I held and shot. It was not beautiful, in fact the more I tired to find the beauty and warmth in it, the more hideous it became. Cold in my hand, heavy, and making more noise than a dixieland jazz band! With fiber optic sights it was accurate, and fast. Yet it left me wanting.

A very, very, good bowhunter I knew at the time told me, "There is nothing that you can bolt on, attach, or glue to your bow that will make you a better bowhunter." The truth, and honesty in his advice hit home with the gentleness of a sledgehammer right between the eyes. The sledgehammer or truth!

It was about that time that I met the late, Glenn Parker, who built me my first custom made stick bow.  As they say, the rest is history. I am again one with the bow I shoot, and can again see the mystical flight of my arrows as intended.

It was akin to being reunited with a long lost lover. A sleek, shapely object of my affections.Shooting a traditional bow is as natural as  eating, sleeping, and fatherhood. That is why I choose traditional bows for hunting.

[Widow's Son]

Fred Bear showed me how. I've come to the point in my life where I'm only going to hunt with vintage Bear equipment.

Ross

[twistedlim]

Had to laugh last night watching TV.  Turned to the outdoor channed (hardly ever do but wife is out of town so I was not forced to watch HGTV).  I was amazed at all the commercials about bows, arrows, broadheads, ATV's, calls, crossbows, attracting scents (actually one that advertised with only urine from one particular doe in heat), cover scents, scent free clothing...bla bla bla.  All the adds were designed to help you "kill" the big one.  I have strayed so far from that thinking it is funny to me now.

[Buckskin57]

simplicity

[sidebuster]

I love hunting with a self bow.

Why?  Because it's hunting the hard way.

Harvesting game with the least of amount of technology is what is all about for me.

IMO It's give the animal a more sporting chance to get a way.  It's closer to being on an equal footing with the animal.  The animal has no technology just its survival instincts and we have technology. Of course true no technology would mean just that nothing store bought( feeders, calls, camo, scent control etc etc).  I haven't tried it completely with no technology but I am getting closer to using less and less.

We hunt for the sport of it and not for survival so its only natural for me to give the animal the greatest sporting chance I can.

[refugerambler]

For the simplicity, for the challenge, and it's just plain fun!

[stagetek]

It's easier !!

[Goke]

It just feels right!

[Austin Brown]

Simpler and just plain more fun.