Well I hate to admitt it, but it took me forever to kill one with a bow. But in my defense, I only really bow hunted in the beginning to have an excuse for being in the woods. I was mostly scouting for rifle season. Never had a hunting bow that fit me either, cause I was using hand me downs from my dad. He never bow hunted deer, just carp fishing with a bow. Anyways, after I left home, went to school and then got a job, all the while becoming a father and husband, I forgot about bow hunting. I guess it took 14 years to get one, if you go back to the begining of my archery adventures when I first started as a kid.

Well a little over three years ago I wanted back in. So I started looking at all the new bows at a local shop. And getting feed back from you HuntingNet users. (Thats when I started on this web site) I was about ready to bust out the money for a Hoyt Viper when I went to buy it and the shop was closed down. They moved into a bigger place in the big city. I went up there but they did not have the archery dept. set up yet. So I went looking else where. I went to a place and looked at their line of bows. I got hooked on the Fred Bear Epic Extreme. I bought this one because I have always been a Bear Archery user and fan. My first bow when I was a kid was a Bear Cub. After a ton of practice and with a better knowledge of bow ethics, and tips from the experts at HuntingNet I trained my self to Not shoot, if I was' nt 100% sure of my shoot and ability to make it. I may have been to picky, but I think I learned alot that way. During the season I realized I needed a climbing stand. I had been hunting on the ground from the beginning. And when ever I went to draw, I usally got busted or something made the deer to not turn and present a good shoot. So after that year I decided to order a Summit Viper climbing stand. Now I was big time ready to get real serius and commit to perfecting my archery & bowhunting. Well after a few close shoot opertunities, I shot a doe late in the season and lost it in the biggest GA thicket you ever seen. I was heart broken. Of course the fine group of people at HuntingNet encouraged me not to give up. So last year, I went back and tried again. And low and behold, I shot my first deer last year, a nice doe that was the biggest deer in the world

I dont even know if I' m going to take a gun this year Only twenty some days left![]