[willy]

Hey Stinker, sorry been away for a few just saw this post, you are not alone. Though I hunt all seasons and enjoy some fine rifles and shotguns my first love is the bow. In fact I hunted with a bow in all the firearm seasons here until they made it illegal.
I also ran a traditional archery shop here in NJ for eight years. I carried custom longbows and recurves from the finest makers in the country and never had less than 60 bows in my shop from them, some of them had 3-5 year waiting list for theirs and I had standing orders and deposits to keep them in my shop all the time. If you ask your bow maker friend if he has ever heard of Renaissance Archery/Bill Schultz in NJ I bet he has if he has been in it for awhile. I sponsored Pennsylvanias and New Jersey's first ever all tradtional archery rendezvous(modern times that is) One of the original members of the Society of Traditional Bowmen, Pennsylvania's Traditional Archers and taught hundreds of archers converting to traditional archery how to shoot instinctively, put on demos at shoots of that and put on self bow making classes at my shop by some very well known self bow makers.
When my fourth child was born and I was working three homicides consecutively along with my normal case load as a detective I ran out of time, literally and closed up the shop. I still keep in touch with a lot of the people and guys send me cards and letters all the time of their hunts all over the world with bows and custom cedars I sold them and thanking me for teaching them how to shoot. It's pretty cool.
Though I had never shot one in my life I bought a Hoyt compound last season because I could not draw the bows due to my neck. First day out trying it stood at forty yards nailing 3 inch yellow dots on the target all the time.
Taken four deer with it, does not give me the same feel as my longbows or recurves but I still enjoy the accuracy and ease of shooting, lets me hunt after the surgery.