ORIGINAL: adams
I started hunting with family when I was 10. At 16 durring P.E. class we got to try archery and a couple of friends brought in compounds and from the first shot I was hooked. I bought my first bow three weeks later and started bow hunting that fall. That year I bagged a 115lb doe 45 minutes into the season and I've never looked back. This year it's to the point I don't care to hunt with a gun. I'm hooked on the arrow!
You know that's when I first shot a bow seriously was in PE class 7th or 8th grade. Do you think they still do that in school today?
I didn't hunt until 18 or 19 and it was gun in Va. They had a 6 or 8 week season. I too noticed I could extend it if I bow hunted and a good friend of mine bow hunted so I bought a cheap bow. I didn't get serious for a few years but I can tell you after 15+ years I have no reason to hunt with a gun unless it's water fowl or clay birdies.
Long live the sport of Bow Hunting. There is nothing like it in the world except long range fishing.
Ps. SA that was a great story.