TH,
I like your attitude! Learn all you can from the veterans. I also started bowhunting when I was 15 but didn't connect until I was 17. Stick with it and practice, practice, practice! During the summer, I would shoot 3-D for at least an hour a day, sometimes 2. A shooting partner always inspires you to out do one another and up your skill level. Always be aware of your limitations and take only the ethical shots even if it means passing up that buck of a lifetime. Remember, hunting, though it is fun, is serious as you are taking the life of one of God's creatures. This should be done with respect and part of that is taking the animal with the least amount of pain and suffering available. In other words take only good, clean high percentage shots. We owe it to our quarry and our sport. JMHO.