Trad Archery Popularity

[Arizona_archer73]

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.

 

[270-300]

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.

Less than 1 percent of people who hunt are making youtube videos.

 

[Beendare]

Less than 1 percent of people who hunt are making youtube videos.

Thankfully...

There are a few good ones but most are clueless as to the use of a camera or how to tell a story with video. It really makes you appreciate guys like Remy Martin

 

[Arizona_archer73]

Less than 1 percent of people who hunt are making youtube videos.

Probably true. Whatever the percentage of hunters who make videos is, there's a ton more GoPro and professional videos with compound bowhunters than traditional bowhunters.

 

[ozyclint]

Probably true. Whatever the percentage of hunters who make videos is, there's a ton more GoPro and professional videos with compound bowhunters than traditional bowhunters.

Which leads to my point. Some start out youtubing trad hunts then find they can't keep up regular kill content that it demands.

 

[270-300]

Probably true. Whatever the percentage of hunters who make videos is, there's a ton more GoPro and professional videos with compound bowhunters than traditional bowhunters.

I think youll find most people who hunt with a non compound bow just want to be left alone and enjoy the peace and quiet of the woods. Not be youtube stars.

 

[ozyclint]

I think youll find most people who hunt with a non compound bow just want to be left alone and enjoy the peace and quiet of the woods. Not be youtube stars.

Amen

 

[Wilderlife]

Yeh. The assumption that people "can't keep up" with creating content may be right in some circumstances, but certainly not the majority. If people want to make videos, that's fine, but it would be wrong to assume that people bounce back and forwards between trad and other methods because of the demands of content creation.

I'm only saying that as someone who dabbles in YouTube videos. I make videos based on what I am enjoying at the time, and don't do it based on any assumed obligations to people who may follow, or any community and their un-written guidelines.