I'm still trying to figure out what comment set off the anti-trad crowd. It appears to be Tom's but, it was a pretty benign comment. A guy who chooses to handicap himself by using a more primitive weapon isn't doing it to increase his efficiency he is doing it to add an additional challenge (or to have a different journey as Tom put it.) There is nothing wrong with that or the guy who doesn't make that choice. I spent several years chasing mature deer with a crossbow, I now spend my time chasing any deer with a recurve. They're both fun and offer their own unique challenges.
@Nutterbuster I wouldn't let one guy taint your opinion of traditional archers. As someone who owns rifles, recurves, longbows and crossbows and routinely hunt with people from all of those groups I can assure you that that there are jacka**'s in every crowd. I have taken just as much grief from compound and crossbow guys when I showed up with my "stick and string" as I have from Trad guys when I showed up with a crossbow. We shouldn't stereotype any group from the actions of a few.
As far as your comment about rifle hunters not kicking bow hunters out of camp, I spent over a decade staring out the window of my parents house at 2500 acres that I couldn't bow hunt because the guy who owned it called arrows "fester sticks" and would only allow people to rifle hunt. I now have a neighbor at my current house that allows me to rifle hunt his 160 acres but, wont allow me to muzzleload or bow hunt because he considers them both "unethical". Either I have some really bad luck or there are more of those guys out there than you realize.