New convert

[Tickbait]

I have a friend and coworker who's been a long time compound hunter.  Over the past year he's listened to me talk about my "obsession" with traditional archery with a grain of salt (or so I thought).  

A couple of weeks ago he said to me, "My dad has this old recurve in the garage..."  I told him to dig it out and we would take a look at it.  It turned out to be an old Shakespeare Necedah, #45, in very good condition.  I told him it would be a great bow to to learn to shoot with and gave him a list of what he would need.  

Well, yesterday he showed up at my house with the bow, shafts from Big Jim's, and a box from 3 Rivers.  We fletched up some arrows and went to it.  He was suprisingly good and by the end of our time together he was grinning from ear to ear and had set a goal to kill a deer with "Dad's bow" this year.

[hedgerowhuntr]

You'll always get those guys who are tech hungry and want the latest and greatest, but for the most part I've had a lot of people really intersted and wanting to learn more about traditional    Kudos on helping him get setup right!

[Boomerang]

That's cool! Alot of people get sick and tired of messing arround with all the high tech stuff and trying to keep up with it all.  

[Tickbait]

I think the simplicity of trad is one of the reasons it appeals to my friend.  After shooting a few arrows I could see the same gleam in his eye I know I had.

[Sam McMichael]

Some guys just don't see how such a simple concept can be so much fun until they try it. I hope he continues to enjoy it, and good on you for showing him how to get started.

[kill shot]

To use "dads" bow makes it even better. On another note, I can't count the times my friends would back out of a hunting trip. They would say "I can't go" and I would ask "why not" then they would go on about there sight got moved, there rest came loose, batteries went dead in there sights.... the list goes on.

[59Alaskan]

Congrats to your friend! That's awesome.  I don't regret moving to trad at all, but I will be a dissenter here...

When I was on wheels I just used the bow and shot.  It was pretty simple and easy.  It was purely a tool I bought and used.

Now I make strings, toy with tuning arrows, rest material and know so much more about archery than I ever dreamed of.  My time involved in messing with gear has exploded as compared to my non-trad days.  I don't regret it a minute, but don't necessarily share the view that traditional archery is simple.  

Like anything else, it is what you make it.  My other form of archery was simple because I made it that way.  Now, I have more passion for the technical aspects of traditional archery

[Tickbait]

I hear you, Colin.  My friend is definitely a tinkerer.  It would not suprise me if before long he's making his own strings and quivers.  I think one of the things that appeals to him is being able to make his own stuff.  He did mention not having to pay $100 for a bow sight.