I started bowhunting at 14 back in 1967, and was lucky enough to kill a little button buck that year with a 45# Shakespeare Sierra, shooting Feline Archery fiberglass arrows.

For Christmas that same year, my parents got me my second recurve - a 50# Bear Kodiak Hunter, and a dozen broadhead-tipped Ben Pearson cedar arrows.

Since that time, I've accumulated several more Bear recurves, as well as a few compounds, and killed a bunch of deer.

Forty years and 3 days after receiving that Christas gift, I killed this buck with that same Kodiak Hunter, and one of those Pearson cedar arrows (now there's only two left of the original dozen) That's the last deer that bow or those arrows will kill - they're now retired.