What is "Traditional Archery"?

[mdel747]

slow in here every one must be out sitting in the fresh air ,,
I have been running wheels for the last 18 years i ran the 3d rounds way to long ,,
you should of seen the guys at the chronograph when i poped a 328 at the ASA shoot in Illinois back in mid 90's , it was hard to get down to 280 , i stuck with IBO after that until i fry-ed on it ,

as for the cross bows i don't see much difference from them to the new wheels out there these days that spit them out at 342/352 high country i think it was but anyway , there running up to 80% let off now , so there is really no difference in the wheels and the cross bow other than the way you hold it ,

most of the time , like around this hick town i live by, everyones friends UNTIL deer season comes around , then its eat or be eaten ,
i have to lol at them, as they think the other guys going to get there big buck , and they dont know whats out there , but i do , i sat out the hunting season for a few years ,but i hunt my bucks with my Nikon with a 1000mm lens before hand , last few years

I got talking with a Buddie out here and found he was shooting sticks now , and he showed me his longbow , i liked it and that brings me to this site as i ordered a longbow and waiting for it to get here ,

I haven't shot any thing but wheels except the coon shoot at plug and pellet ( happened to win it ) must of been the beer ,

so i find my self looking FW to a new challenge and new learning curve
I will need a string and some wooden slivers unless i use ACC's but those are tweaked at 5gn # to light for the new stick if i read it right

but get back to basics and looking FW to my first trad deer

long winded mdel747

[DON WALKUP]

IMO. it's anything without wheels, including non-wheeled x-bows, that delivers an arrow.

the x-bow goes back to approximately the 9th century A.D.

up until the 1950's bows/x-bows did not have wheels.

JMO...

[Brithunter]

Hmmm having recently gotten back into archery my take on traditional is that it depends on the region/country your in/from. In England it was the Longbow although recurves eventually sneaked in but places like the Steeps of Hungary they used a shorter recurve Horse Bow. In central Asia it seems to ahve been recurves as well yet Japan had a verly long limber bow that was drawn from only 1/3 down the bow really weird looking.

I brought a used outfit, a modern target recurve with alloy riser foam carbon limbs (36lbs) and a long rod stabiliser. There is NO bow hunting in the UK so it targets only and this set up will out last me. After a break of over 30 years it's taking a lot of learning again.

[Hoyt]

I have no idea..the term Traditional wasn't around when I started shooting recurves in the 50's. We just shot the best recurves and longbows we could get.

Some used sights, stabilizers, whatever made them shoot better. I didn't hear the term Traditional until after compounds came about.

Seems like a lot of the things we used in the old days are looked down on now by the self described traditionalist.