Trad Archery Popularity

Thread starter AlphaK9
Start date Jan 18, 2026

Do you feel like traditional archery is growing?

Yes- I think it is becoming more popular, guys are taking off training wheels
Votes: 22 40.7%
Yes- the growth in traditional archery is new shooters mostly
Votes: 3 5.6%
No- It's not growing, but it's not shrinking either...
Votes: 14 25.9%
No- It is literally a dying breed of bowhunters and shooters
Votes: 9 16.7%
Maybe- Guys jump back and forth because they can't choose which they like better
Votes: 6 11.1%

Total voters

54

Today at 1:06 AM

Arizona_archer73

FNG

Trad bow target shooting, I have no idea.

Trad bow hunting my gut says it is decreasing.

I can only base this on the amount of hunting videos for trad bow I can find on YouTube. (I hunt with a recurve.) There's not even 1/100th as many of those as there are with compound bows.