I got into traditional archery basically because a friend of mine bought a traditional bow, and I wanted to try it to. I dabbled in it, but was really into compounds and all the gadgets and gizmos that went along with those.
I piddled around with it for a couple of years, but when there was “serious hunting” to be done, I always went with the compound. Eventually I got out of trad all together. I put together quite a string of nice whitetail bucks with the compound, but hunting was beginning to be more like a job, and I was expected (or so it seemed to me), to put another buck “on the wall” every year.
There are a ton of bowhunters in my area, and also a bunch of squabbling amongst that crowd. Things like “he’s moving in on my area”, “that was my buck he shot”, and blah, blah blah. I finally got sick of trying to keep up with everything and everyone, and decided to just do my own thing, and get out of the rat race that bowhunting seems to have become. I really enjoy just going hunting with a bow that feels like a flyrod, and not need a 30lb pack full of stuff to do it. Anyway, I know there were people saying I’d be back on the compounds within a year, but the absolute truth of the matter is that I would not even consider owning another compound (at least at this time).
