Did my good deed for the day!!!!!
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If more guys did stuff like that there would be less kids on the street getting in trouble. Plus they gain something they can always strive to improve themselves at. I started with a hand me down bow and thats all it took. It was in my hand during all my free time.
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Hey Rob/Pa you sell last years yet??? LOL You are a gentlman and a scholar for helping this kid out and a real asset to this wacko sport we enjoy so much. If yer arm can reach give yerself a pat on the back from old iowabob.
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thats a great thing to do... my uncle sold me his bow for dirt cheap 200 with everything on it and it was worth 400... i was as happy as can be...
so coming from somone with the same experience as the kid you gave your bow to.. i bet he was alot happier than he seemed.. i know i was![Big Grin](https://www.huntingnet.com/forum/images/smilies/biggrin.gif)
so coming from somone with the same experience as the kid you gave your bow to.. i bet he was alot happier than he seemed.. i know i was
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I've done something similar. I have a couple of neighbor boys that I introduced to bowhunting. I gave the older one my bow and bought myself a new one. I made sure he practiced a lot(he was 15 or so at the time) and tried to significantly shorten the "learning curve" for him and hung him a stand in a real nice spot and told him that I would leave this area for him to hunt. On his first morning out he killed a 7 pointer and later in the year he arrowed a doe. He was hooked. A year or two later his younger brother was feeling the archery bug biting him( he was 13 at the time,)so His brother gave him the bow that I had given him and we got him practicing and shooting well. He always absorbed everything that I tried to teach him and really seemed to have that "it"factor that makes some better than others at hunting. He arrowed a 130 inch 9 pointer in the third week of his season and has arrowed a few does since as well. It really feels good getting youngsters involved in our sport and seeing them be successful at it.
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Nothing beats it, guys! I have taken so much pride in helping people get started in our sport, the joy really comes full circle when see the smiles you put on a persons face!! great job!!