How long have you been doing this??
07-28-2008, 08:13 PM
#1
Thread Starter
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Southeast, Va
Posts: 3,965
How long have you been doing this??
Not just hunting with a bow, but shooting, hunting, fooling with one, etc. I was around9 when I got a little compound bow and some wodden arrows and then I got a bear recurve when I was about 10 anf then I was hooked forever!! so that means I have been at least shooting a bow for 24 yrs. Gosh time flies!!
07-28-2008, 08:20 PM
#6
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Manassas, VA
Posts: 3,612
RE: How long have you been doing this??
I believe I got my first bow around 10 years ago. Didn't do much with that bow until around 2002 or so...so about 6 years or so shooting and hunting with a bow. I cannot even imagine still hunting with a gun because I am totally hooked on bowhunting.
07-28-2008, 08:20 PM
#7
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Texas
Posts: 2,363
RE: How long have you been doing this??
I had the little cheap recurve as a kid but it faded till I got to be about 16 and I really wwanted a bow but it never happened. So, when I was 21 I was supporting myself and purchased my first bow, since then it has been full on for the last 14 years and counting. It is all I want to do anymore, I have the archery shop at my house in the barn and spend all the time that I can out there shooting and working with my friends and kids, there is always someone at the house shooting or tuning!!!!!!
07-28-2008, 08:37 PM
#10
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Oct 1998
Location: Hughesville, PA USA
Posts: 18,322
RE: How long have you been doing this??
I had a fiberglass recurve that I took into the woods with me when I was 10 or 11. Luckily I never saw a deer to draw on. All I had was a fiberglass arrow with a field point and no father or internet to tell me differently. I played with an old wooden recurve with some cut on contact heads that I never had the opportunity to draw on a deer with either which looking back, was a blessing in disquise. At 15 I got a Bear Black Bear II which I had to camo paint, some 2117 full length and tipped them with 160 grain Thunderheads. What a terrible combo because they flew all over off my plastic flipper rest and fingers. At 17 I think, I added sights and actually started hitting what I was aiming at, sent some arrows through some deer but shouldn't have. Again, no father and internet to tell me differently. I carried that bow through my early 20's and finally "recovered" a doe with it. That was it's last year as I acquired a new Jennings Carbon Extreme XLR, coupled it with some 2213's, 100 grain Muzzy and a release for the first time. That year I took 3D very, very seriously. I haven't looked back. Now countless bows later I try my best to help others as I've come a very long way and pretty much self taught with exception of a few. One I mentioned earlier in my prayer request thread.
Total I suppose you could say 30 years or more and bloodcrick is just a little older than I.
Total I suppose you could say 30 years or more and bloodcrick is just a little older than I.