My Dad bowhunted, so I was groomed from an early age. I started seriously bowhunting at age 13 with an adult bow. I initially started hunting to extend my hunting time. However, as I became efficient with the bow, a began to slowly replace gun season with bow season. At age 19, I started bowhunting only, I did that for 3 years. I then sort of fell out of bowhunting for several years, I was away a college, new girlfriends, etc and didn't really have time for it. After graduating in May 2000, I started getting back into it and have been bow only for the past 3 seasons.