c903,

Without fail, every year someone--usually a young bowhunter--at a 3D shoot looks at my recurve and asks, "Can you really kill a deer with that thing"? Honestly, it used to get on my nerves. But now I understand why they ask. There's a whole generation of bowhunters who've never known anything except what they see today. And what's worse, they're totally unaware of what it took the get bowhunting seasons in the first place.

Two years ago I was sitting in an NBEF class when the instructor asked the students to name some of the pioneers of early bowhunting. Out of 25 students in the room, only one was new to the pastime. The others were seasoned bowhunters. What were their answers? One guy said Fred Bear. The rest answered with names like Chuck Adams and Ted Nugent. I'm wondering how many of them thought that the Pope & Young club was founded by Pope & Young.