First I must say that I can somewhat diasagree with buckseeker, there is one better and that was the birth of my two beautiful girls, other then that I fully agree.

And how I got started is kind of funny I think. Earlier that summer of my first bow season I had purchased some pos left handed compound bow for $25 from a yard sell just for fun. Well my buddies and I messed around with it for a couple of days. Then they went and found some other cheap ones on clearance at Big 5. So we played with them. At first couldnt even hit a milk jug at ten yards. Then we bought a release. It got much better. Funny thing is we shot that left handed bow right handed for awhile. Well time went on and we put them away and hadnt even thought about hunting with them (my bow was not even legal it was too weak). Well here we are a few months later the day before bow season opens, at work, one of my buddies starts nagging me about going bow hunting, all day long I continued to reply with things like "Are you high?" and " my bow is not even legal" Well my boss overheard some of this and offered his Golden eagle to me to use. (I hate it when people take away your excusses lol).
So long story I finally said that I would go ahead and " waste" one year to prove him wrong.

Well I was the wrong one I had never had so much fun hunting in my life and I will more then likely never gun hunt for deer and elk again. Especially elk because rifle season is only 7 days long and Bow you get at least a month and if I am will to travel a bit I can get an additional three weeks for cow only hunt during late season.

Well in a nutshell that is how I got started.