Started shooting a recurve I bought at a garage sale in 1976 and it broke in '77. Bought a new PSE Proficientcy compound for $120 in '77, practiced hard and bowhunted for the first time. October of '77 I got lucky and killed my first deer.....young 8 pt. buck. Never saw a lot of deer back in the late '70's and hardly ever saw another bowhunter for that matter. Permission to hunt was easy to get for bowhunting. It was quite a novelty to many people. One permit allowed. I wasn't concerned with getting a big buck, just happy to get a shot at almost any deer. Wore facepaint every hunt, anybody who saw me wear using it to hunt with really thought it was cool! Seriously, anybody who saw a bowhunter sort of admired them for trying to bowhunt.

Most compounds were 40-50% letoff. My second compound bow was a Browning and I kid you not the letoff was 25%....sweet shooter. Everyone shot with fingers that I knew of. I made homemade treestands and never got very high[8D]. Man, time has flown by.