People often confuse Primitive Archery with crude or ill-made equipment. Maybe a better descriptive would be "pre-industrial"?
I shot a 3D course where there were 40 targets shot, starting out with the closest at 25 yds! I'd only practiced out to 20 yds max, most shots at 10-15. I was shooting my first bow, a 43# ash flatbow that wasn't particularly well designed and shot rather like a slug. I was throwing 600 grain ash arrows at about 120 fps. Needless to say, I was shooting "rainbow" arcs at all targets. There were 3 of us shooting stickbows against 200 and some odd wheelie shooters. I ended up in the top 50% and was the worst of the three stickshooters.
It's not the wheels on the wheel bows that offend me. But there is often an attitude that trends towards BUYING GEAR rather than building skills. Granted, there are some folks in here that are constantly throwing perfectly good bows in the corner so that they can build the "flavor of the month" design, too. But none of them delude themselves into thinking that they are going to kill a deer just because they showed up in the woods with a new bow.
