Who shoots both...Traditional and compound?

[Adjam5]

I am asking who shoots both Traditional AND Compound bows?

Which did you shoot first? Have any issues switching back and forth with forms?

Is it possible to shoot both types of bows and be accurate at it? Should only one type of shooting be practiced?

Reason being, I am thinking about hanging up the Matthews and picking up my stick bows for my hunting. With my son Joe, now the serious freezer filler. I think if I missed a few or didn't get close enough to lay my 40 yard pin on the deer...it would not matter to me that that much. A bad shot will always torture me. But the allure of the wood arrows, feather fletch(from your turkeys wings), self nocks and eventually stone broadheads has a force that is drawing me:).

[rhine16]

I'm not sure that I count because I'm yet to shoot at a deer with my recurve, but I shoot both. Picked up a recurve last February, shot it often through the spring. From July-September, each practice round I shot consisted of 6 cedar arrows to shoot with my recurve and 4 carbons to shoot with my hoyt. I didn't think that either affected the others form... to me, they are so different that the techniques don't merge.

I haven't hunted with the recurve as often as I'd liked this year. I had deer in range almost every time I've taken it, but the shot opportunity just never presented. Much of my hunting this next month will be geared toward the recurve.

[Strut10]

I do. Haven't in a while due to a horrendous tendonitis in my elbow last time I got really into it. I've got a beautiful Fred Bear Montana longbow that I used to be be fairly dangerous with.

[woolybear]

Go for it Anthony, it's definately a whole different kinda hunt you'll enjoy.

I gave it a go this past season, just glad I tested the water before jumping in with two feet the way you explain far as equiptment goes. I wouldn't have wanted to blame that for my own mistakes.

Get a summer of shooting targets then a trial season under your belt and I bet you'll see just how primitive you want to go for starters till you work out some of the wrinkles that come with the transition.

[JimPic]

I started shooting recurves at the YMCA when I was about 8yrs old(I'm 48 now).Years later,when I started bowhunting,I went with a compound because well,that's what everybody else was using. Had some success with the various compounds I owned but I never really took to it. The sights bothered me,the break in the draw was hard to get used to so about 15yrs or so ago,I sold everything I had...bows,releases,arrows,etc and bought a custom longbow. Haven't shot a compound since

[Prairiepredator]

I would eventually like to make a longbow and make some arrows some day. It just looks like so much fun. Don't get me wrong, I love compounds but there is something about traditional archery that adds so much more excitement to bowhunting. I have never owned or hunted with a traditional bow before but I can imagine how exciting it would be to shoot a deer with one.

[TBow]

I started shooting my dad's Wing longbow @ 35 lb when I was about 10 years old. A couple of buddies and I would head out into the fields and head for small ponds where we could lay a lickin' on any frogs and toads that dared show their heads. Then at about 21 (1973), two of the guys I worked with suggested we head to the local range to fire off our .22s and of course, our recurves. I had a 55 lb Ben Pearson fibreglass recurve that was my dad's, and a few wooden arrows that I'd picked up at one of the local sports shops (I think they were all warped). It was so much fun and the alure of hunting deer with a bow was just too much to resist. I soon purchased a Browning Explorer I recurve and commenced a long addiction to bowhunting. I now own 2 longbows (one of them is that old 35 lb Wing) and 4 recurves. I also own 4 compounds, which is what I mostly hunt with now.

I've taken a few deer with my old Browning Explorer recurve, but it just accompanies me to the 3D archery shoots now just for the fun of shooting it. I'm contemplating getting back into traditional and would like a Howard Hill Big 5 or Wesley Special, and a Black Widow recurve if my budget will allow it.

I instruct archery at my club's local functions. The club was donated about 10 light poundage recurves to allow kids to shoot. Although I still hunt with the compound for my serious hunts such as moose, those recurves and longbows just seem to keep calling me back.

TBow

[maytom]

I use to many years ago. Started out with a 60" Bear Kodiak Hunter 45 lbs @ 28" and got to shoot that little bow pretty well indeed!!! Then I went to a 62" Howatt Hunter 60lbs @28" and that's when I over bowed myself and ended up hurting my shoulder in the process of shooting that heavier bow weight!! One thing about traditional bows and shooting in General, you have to practice 10X more just to stay proficient Vs with shooting a compound bow. Being 55 years old now, my traditional shooting days are over.

[bowslinger]

i shoot both hunt big and small game with both also

[RangerClay]

I've only been hunting with the compound for 3 years so I'm not ready to make a change yet. I do have my Dad's trad. bow and its a nice Fred Bear. I wish I had someone closer who could show me what I am doing wrong. I cannot hit the broadside of a barn with it.

[PAarcher]

I've always shot compounds growing up. I started bowfishing and liked the instinctive shooting involved in that sport. I purchaced a recurve and bought a instinctive dvd to refine my shooting I am comfortable out 20 yds with a kill shot. 25 is probly my limit with the recurve. I've killed many animals with the compound and took the recurve out hunting for the first time last spring chasing turkeys. I shot a tom @ 15 yds with it and now I'm hooked. Next deer season I see the recurve making many trips into the deer woods! Its a rush.