WANT TO GO TRADITIONAL BOWHUNTING.

[scotsman]

Hmm..... People have been feeding their families with compound bows for what, 20 years? And feeding their families with stickbows for the previous 5,000  years.... It just takes practice.

[lokidog]

Hmm..... People have been feeding their families with compound bows for what, 20 years? And feeding their families with stickbows for the previous 5,000  years.... It just takes practice.

A few more than 20, my first was 36 years ago.  Some of us just have too many "hobbies" to put enough time into just one.   

[Payne]

Shot mine today for the first time... Bout 60 times and could have shot a lot more... Glade I got the light #44. Shooting at 5 yards, mainly for form and the feel. Stepped back ten feet and noticed the difference pretty good... Was a good start and fun but have a long ways to go!

[Tree Killer]

What's stoping you? 

i dont like to miss.

Why would you miss?  If I get an animal within my limited range...he's in serious danger of having the air let out of him! 

Really nice to see some new folks falling in love with the simple weapons!   

[huntnnw]

So what arrows are you shooting out of the samic?

[Boss .300 winmag]

The expensive ones, its all I they had left.

[Encore 280]

Hmm..... People have been feeding their families with compound bows for what, 20 years? And feeding their families with stickbows for the previous 5,000  years.... It just takes practice.

The first time I saw a compound bow was back around 1962 or 63 somewhere around there. I remember thinking about how small and weird it looked! A neighbor guy was a bow hunter and his elk bugle was a piece of pike pole! Can't remember if he ever got an elk or not. This was down in Oregon.

[Boss .300 winmag]

So what arrows are you shooting out of the samic?

Easton carbon ion 500 7.3 GPI.

[Grasshopper]

Come to our Traditional only days at Silver Arrow Bowen in Mt Vernon Jan 31 and Feb 1.  You can  talk to alot of people to get some ideas.  I'll be there with my booth Brisky Bows Traditional Archery.  Stop by and talk.

[Boss .300 winmag]

Sorry got to watch the game, thanks for the invite.

[WAnoob]

I have a dear friend who shot nothing but longbows stateside and Africa on every kind of animal. Hopefully you've heard of him he's quite popular in the archery community. Google: Ed Ashby. Hopefully you've heard of him, I'm not into archery yet.. but he knows his sh*t. Especially extensive research on arrows and broad heads.

Randy

[Boss .300 winmag]

Yes  I have heard the name. 

[WAnoob]

Good to hear, I wanted to start with a compound bow myself after moving to Washington a little over a month ago. But every time I hear his stories with longbows and rhinos it makes you want to go traditional. 

[elk247]

  only if I'm shooting a longbow at a rhino out of a longbow helo. 

[SGTDuffman]

Buy something used off here or another archery forum, and get something in a lot less weight than you think you need, I wouldn't go over 45lbs to start, and work on practice and form. When you've got your form and basics down, you can sell off the lighter weight stuff, for next to no loss, and get heavier stuff if need be. You may be surprised at how much harder it is to pull a traditional 45lb bow after doing compound though.

You may also be able to go to a range or a shoot and try out some other peoples stuff to see if you'd prefer recurve or longbow. Cabelas has been pretty forgiving about handling and shooting some of their different stuff, but it's not usually a real fair comparison because the arrows aren't set up right for the bows and you may get stuck comparing a 60lb longbow to a 40lb recurve or something. I had a recurve for a few years, but decided it didn't scratch my traditional itch, and switched to a longbow. It just feels more right than the recurve did, I don't have any other way to put it.

It takes a ton of commitment to get and stay good with a traditional bow though. I've only been shooting traditional stuff for about 5 years off and on. Life always intrudes and I can't commit the time I feel I need to to maintain the skills, and end up shooting my compound more, because it is much more forgiving of little breaks between practice. If I can't shoot the compound for a few weeks, it's no big deal, it's got sights to help me. If I don't shoot the longbow for a few weeks, muscle memory fades.