A neighbor kid had a bow and he got me interested in shooting. There were no compounds back then. My father deer hunted but not with a bow. He actually thought "sliver slingers" as he called them, were people running around in the woods with toys. That thought ended when he helped me track the first deer I hit. It left a good blood trail which erased that thought from my fathers mindset. The next year he became a sliver slinger.
I moved on to the compound for quite a while, then decided to build myself a laminated recurve. Now I hunt with a homemade laminated longbow.
Dan