I've been "hunting" WITH my dadsince I could walk, but I started taking a gun when my dad felt I was mature enough, which was a turkey hunt when I was 8. I had never stepped foot in the deer woods until I could carry a gun myself, my dad thought that it would bore me at first. I started deer hunting at 8 also. When I started, we only hunted evenings, for a couple hours, a couple days ayear. I missed my first couple of years[8D]. When I killed my first deer, at 10, I toyed with the thought of hunting more. Well that winter, one of my neighbors gave me an old Bear bow that his son had outgrown. I used that until I was 13, then I bought a new PSE Deer Hunter Package. I shot it a lot, but didn't bowhunt a lot, just a couple weekends a year. This year was my first serious year bowhunting. I've killed one doe, and lost another (made me sick, but a learning experience). That's as much as I'm willing to type right now[&:]

Forgot to mention:
I have been shooting bows since I was 5. They were just cheap 20# Wal-Mart specials.