I had a $60 PSE something (lightning flite maybe???) that I picked up at a pawn shop. It had the big slot style pins.... and it only had one of them! It was miraculous that I happened to buy a 29" bow..... I didn't know they had sizes.... I dropped another $60 at a pro shop (where I would ironically end up working three years down the road) and had them true everything up. My Dad said he had an old release (and he wasn't kidding... this thing is the size of a turkey baster) and he sent it to me in the mail... so that was a freebee. Another $50 at sports authority netted me 6 XX75 arrows and six NAP Thunderheads. I already had camo and a climbing treestand.... but they wanted like $30 for a quiver... NO WAY JACK!!!!

So I pulled out Mr. Leatherman.... lopped the top off a plus sized gatorade bottle..... put some custom made to fit egg crate foam down in the bottom and stuffed the whole works down in a blue Kelty backpack and figured I was nicely equipped. Everybody laughed like hell too.... and I was the only one who got a deer that night... infact, I went back each Wednesday the next three weeks and killed two more deer and a hog.... and I didn't gun hunt for deer for almost four years after that.

Man those were the good old simple days!