Nobody in my family hunted. It was my buddy Tom who introduced me to grouse hunting when I was 18. His Dad had sparked him on it a few years earlier, but from that point on it was pretty much just the two of us on our own.

A few years later, he talked me into trying deer hunting.

From there, we proceeded to try everything we ever heard about, and make almost every mistake one could make. I still remember when we discovered camoflauge!

It's been an 18 year process that continues today. But I can honestly say that it was my decision to start bowhunting back in '98 that turned me into what I would call a successful hunter.

"It is the wisest man who realizes that he knows nothing."