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!!
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The ability to get close to game remains the essence of all bowhunting today.
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.
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!!!!!!
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"LUCK-is where opportunity meets preparation"
and "P.E.T.A. Sucks"
Shooting for 8yrs and hunting..... will be my 4th yr with a bow. I've rifle/muzzleloader hunted for 10-11 yrs now
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2008 Ross Cardiac 70Lbs, QAD pro HD, Sims modular stab, Copper john dead nutz 2 sight, Scott Sabertooth release, G5 Meta peep, beman arrows with ONESTRINGER arrow wraps topped with Slick Tricks or GT2's and RIDGERUNNER sling
Founder of the Annual DIY MB bear hunt thread. Its bear hunting time folks and I am getting ready again.
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.
How long have you been doing this??
Its bear hunting time folks and I am getting ready again.
