Is your traditional bow "Cute"?

[David Bartlett]

#6256

Today I took a ride to a nearby sporting goods store that sells archery tackle. Most of what they sell is geared toward the Wheel-Bow and Cross-Bow crowd, but they do have a smattering of Traditional equipment.

While I was picking out some Judo points, I noticed a young family with a couple young boys shopping. The sales guy was giving Dad and the boys his best pitch for the latest, greatest, fastest compounds, with adjustable draw weights to make it easy for the young boys to grow with them.

While waiting at the register to buy my measly $10 purchase, the mother picked a Recurve off the rack and exclaimed to her family how she just loved these “Cute” Long-bows.

Thanks for being here fellow Traditionalists.

[skinner biscuit]

#49350

Wheelie bows are fugly.Traditional bows are simply gorgeous.

[Mark Turton]

#49833

It’s the kids I feel sorry for.

[James Harvey]

#50066

I feel your annoyance Dave 👿

If it can be any consolation, a young man at work has been asking me about hunting and bows (a friend of his shoots compounds). His initial interest was compounds but I’ve drawn him to the world of the recurves. It was awesome seeing him fall in love, watching those arrows fly off to the target 😀

For interests sake a couple of things that he said ‘blew his mind’ was how simple the take down recurve was to put together/string etc. And also how quiet it was. His compound shooting friend had told him recurves are very noisy affairs (maybe he’d only been exposed to gap walkers at comp shoots or something).

Anyway, we can notch him up to the good guys yet, I told him he should still go to the local archery shop and have a go with a compound, he may enjoy it more. But I doubt it 😉

Jim

[wojo14]

#54947

skinner biscuit wrote: Wheelie bows are fugly.Traditional bows are simply gorgeous.

i second that

[smiley1]

#58299

Jim, It does my heart good to here that at least some beginners are being introduced to traditional archery. The shame of it is that most kids won’t ever get the exposure. All they will ever know is wheels and gadgets. I too feel sorry for the kids.

Steve

[Ralph]

#58947

“Cute” Long-bows.”

I think me and my longbow make quite the pair! 😆

My bow is old too……:wink:

[grumpy]

#32800

Just as “cute” as a 1970 VW.

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