My cousin gave me my first longbow around 1960, had to hold it sideways to shoot it. Gotmy firstnew Bear recurve in 1963 and started putting a hurting on some of the local small game. Killed my first buck in 1967 with a 50# Kodiak. Started shooting competitively in the late 60's. Mid 70's Uncle Sam got, but still managed to hunt AL,VA and SC a little, spent 2 seasons in Okinawa and never touched a bow!. Things changed alot in them 4 years, went to get me a new bow in 1978 and no one even carried a recurve, I picked up my first compound. At the same time I figured out that if I kept filling my tags with little bucks, I could never kill a big one. Took me a few seasons to score on a big one, but it was worth the wait. Went back in the service in the mid 80's and stayed till 95 and missed 2 more seasons while in Korea, but hunted KY, GA, and Kansas. Dont know what I was thinking when we moved here, one of the worse countys in the state of MI for big bucks, butI will movesoon!