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whitetailbowhunter 07-28-2008 08:44 PM

RE: How long have you been doing this??
 
I started shooting at 10 so I have been doing archery for 5 years and this will be my third year Bowhunting!

flstnhd 07-28-2008 08:56 PM

RE: How long have you been doing this??
 
I got my first bow and started hunting in October of 2006. I was 43.

Schultzy 07-28-2008 09:28 PM

RE: How long have you been doing this??
 
Just about my whole life. I know dad had a recurve in my hand before I was even a year old. Obviously I wasn't shooting it but I was screwing around with it none the less. The earliest picture I could find was of me either 4 or 5 years old. I'm 34 years old so you could say anywhere from 31 to 33 years I've been playing around with them and shooting them.

Here's a few pic's.

My brother and I shooting our recurves.


Another pic of my brother and I helping and watching dad with his older then the hills Jennings compound. No let off on this compound!


AF Hunter 07-28-2008 09:33 PM

RE: How long have you been doing this??
 
I picked up a bow for the first time in 2001. It was a RH bow and I am LH but shoot firearms both L&R so what the heck. Wasn't happy with the grouping of the arrows RH so I sold it and purchased a LH bow in 2003. Shots were good so started hunting that fall. I was introduced to hunting when I was 7 with firesticks. Now only use them for yotes.

bloodcrick 07-28-2008 09:40 PM

RE: How long have you been doing this??
 
Schultzy, where have you been hiding them pics? those are priceless ;)

ORIGINAL: Schultzy

Just about my whole life. I know dad had a recurve in my hand before I was even a year old. Obviously I wasn't shooting it but I was screwing around with it none the less. The earliest picture I could find was of me either 4 or 5 years old. I'm 34 years old so you could say anywhere from 31 to 33 years I've been playing around with them and shooting them.

Here's a few pic's.

My brother and I shooting our recurves.


Another pic of my brother and I helping and watching dad with his older then the hills Jennings compound. No let off on this compound!


JESUS loves archers 07-28-2008 09:56 PM

RE: How long have you been doing this??
 
I believe I was about 6-7 when I got a little red bear recurve for christmas,about 15 for when I got a compound so about 28-29 years,shot my first buck in the eighties sometime but that was with a 30-30....first buck with a bow pictured


JeramyK 07-28-2008 10:04 PM

RE: How long have you been doing this??
 
I was probably 9 or 10 when I first started shooting an old fiberglass recurve with wooden arrows. Then when I was able to pull back my step-dads wooden recurve I graduated to that. I got my first compound bow when I was 14 or 15 I think. It's so hard to remember the exact year. I just remember getting it for Christmas. I would say 1988 or 1989? Not totally sure.

GregH 07-28-2008 10:51 PM

RE: How long have you been doing this??
 
46 years.

steve25 07-28-2008 11:33 PM

RE: How long have you been doing this??
 
Got my first bow at 18 (late starter) PSE Gamesport. I have been into archery for 16 years. Where does the time go!!!!

MarquetteMagnum 07-29-2008 12:13 AM

RE: How long have you been doing this??
 
I have a memory of me shooting a red bow the day that my dads blue car got taken away by a tow truck for repairs. I asked him how old I was then and he said I was 4. So that would put me at 23 years of fooling around with a bow.


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