Target shooting with the bow?

I started shooting some local 3D tournaments in the off-season, after the '05 deer season. I sucked. Anythign that challenges me, though....I try to do what I can to get better at it. So....I took it a little more seriously last year.....and I started asking question of the guys I respect in thsi field. I shot in 4 tournaments last year (3 local and one in VA). I won one of the local events (indoors)....and finished 19th out of about 50 in the VA tourney. So....I'm still learning. I got into the HNI indoor league......got some good coaching (Thanks, Matts!)....and I'm going to get a target-specific bow set up as soon as my 82nd arrives. I'm shooting every evening in my basement....and 3D on saturdays. I have a list of about 8-10 tournaments I want to shoot this year. We'll see.

Started out small game hunting and dove hunting when I was about 10. Never got really good at any of it.....but I got out of it exactly what I put into it. It was something to do. Took a couple of turkeys with a shotgun in the past....but the first one I took with the bow got me. I'll be at it again, this spring.

Got into waterfowl hutning when I lived in Charlotte. Moved to Charleston, SC and that's when I got the bug, bad. I bought a pedigree Lab and trained her myself (obtaining her MH status in '99). THAT was my passion. I loved watching her work. I Still miss that girl badly. I put her down the day after Christmas '07.

Started deer hunting in '05....and didn't have a clue. I don't know that I do, now....but my results are what they are. I'll leave it at that.

LOVE flyfishing......and used to tie a few flies. I'm a dry fly guy......and that's my thing when I flyfish. If they're on the nymphs.....I'm usually not in the creek. Had 2 boats (last was a 18' Hydra Sports Vector Series) that I fished the in and offshore (to 20 miles) waters of Charleston in. I miss the feeling of never knowing what's on the other end of that line.

A baseball player in college (D1/NAIA Catcher and 3B).....and I thought I had a chance to do it for a living. No dice. ALways been a passion. Took up softball 9 years out of college....and won a Nat. Championship with our team out of Charleston (250+ games a year). Gave it up a few years ago. Never looked back. I still umpire to be around the game, though.

Right out of college....I was financing cars....and took up golf. Within a couple of years I had my hcp to single digits....and got into the PGA Apprentice program in '90 (I think). I got my hcp down to +2.6 (2.6 strokes better than par), and I was elected to PGA membership in '94. I loved the teaching aspects of the game (STRIKINGLY similar to shooting a bow), but I was never competitive on anything other than the sectional level in the game as a player.

So...."Master of none" is probably suitable, for me. I become fairly proficient at anything I set my sights on, though. I think it'll always be "something". I might be doing something else in the future....but I always think I'll hunt SOMETHING.

That has beenTHE constant.