I’ve been away from traditional archery for many years, other than occasionally shooting my old Pearson recurve. I’m 60 years old now and when I was a kid in Tennessee I made my own bows, some were pretty crude, but I got better. I received one of those green and white bows for my 12th birthday and I spent all my money on arrows etc..lots of arrows. By this time we had moved to the Ozarks in SE Missouri. I would sell soda bottles back to stores to get arrow money..arrows were about a dollar apiece so it took a few bottles to get arrows. I killed squirrels and rabbits for the table, I read about flu-flu arrows and made some with chicken feathers and a wire hoop on the front and would every once in awhile kill a quail or dove on the wing. I bought a couple of Bear recurves while in the USAF in the early 70s and killed my first deer with a bow in 1976 shortly after I got out of the service. Anyway,,I eventually bought compounds and I’m finally tired of them and heading back to recurves and longbows..I buy the Traditional Bowhunter magazine whenever I can..I like the articles. I’m going to try to soak in as much from ya’ll as I can. BTW, I would often put a 30-06 case on the front of arrows that the tip was broken off from and use them as blunts for small game..the held up well with a little JB Weld to help things.