Traditional Archery

[SapperDawg]

OK fellow outdoor dawgs, in a further effort to make hunting even harder on myself than it has to be, I am considering taking up traditional archery. My initial research has me leaning to a recurve vs longbow, and I would like to hear any experience/advice from you here.

My dad has a 35# 1967 recurve that I will use to begin practice with, in hopes of purchasing a hunting rig at 50ish lbs later this summer.

Anyone shoot traditional archer here, and if so, what has your experience been?

[engie]

Recurve is the logical step in the procession toward truly traditional archery. It's a bridge in other words to learn instinctive shooting, etc...

The last real step is building your own longbow "traditionally". My dad has made that step -- I haven't yet.

You will be glad you did this. It adds back that excitement you had when you first started bowhunting all over again. Now -- if I'm hunting a particular buck or something -- recurve is staying at the house...