First whitetail was at the ripe old age of 7 with all hand made equipment recurve and arrows. Big old fat doe. Killed 3 more that year with that old bow and a whole lot more in years later. Lovely thing about a well built recurve is you can "grow into" it. First buck was the ripe old age of 9 and I got called everything but a white boy when the old man saw that beast Taken with a 30/30.