I started bowhunting because of the challenge. At the time, I was ready to give up hunting..for good.

Because of the thousands of acres of farmland I was blessed with being able to hunt growing up, for the last 10 years I gun hunted, I was killing anywhere from 4-8 deer per season..I truly got tired of killing deer. I only needed one for meat, and I've never been a big "antler" hunter...if it had a nice rack so be it, if not, so be it...any meat after the first one went to the poor I knew in the area or to Hunters for the Hungry.

I started hanging out again with some friends of mine from High School who were now in college and they were into bowhunting. I shot their bows a bit, and picked it up pretty quickly. The whole challenge aspect, and the year round shooting (that I could do in my yard) appealed to me greatly.

And if I don't kill one, oh well...not a big concern to me. I am more selective though now...I sometimes will take a doe/fawn to thin out some numbers 'round here, but usually, unless there's a decent rack, I don't shoot. I've been chasing two different nice bucks around my area for the past 4 seasons...They've come real close to getting hit, but I never could put it all together for one reason or another. One of these days they are going to screw up ..or I'm gonna get lucky (hopefully both!)