RE: how did everyone get into bowhunting?
 

For me it started with my Dad, Grandfather, and uncle and some other family and friends. We all used to get together and go gun hunting in Eastern Ohio. We'd go up and cut some wood and camp for 3-4 days. We had a campfire and played poker at night...Basicaly a big guys time out. during the day we'd go out and sit in the woods and hope we'd see a deer. soemtimes we did but I realy loved it. We only had a few deer in camp over the years. I started carrying a cap gun musket toy. I was told to treat it like it was a real gun. I was 9. I quickly graduated to a BB gun. I carried it when we went it and hunted and shot it a ton. Eventualy I was carrying a muzzle loader. Unfortuntly I never got a shot. However for my 13th birthday my dad bought me a used Bear polar 2 from a guy at work. The bow was way to long for me but it flung arrows. I spent most of my time trying to wear out the limbs on that bow. Also we lived on 46 acres so I had plenty of places to run arround. When I found out I could hunt with my new to me bow I was all for it. I remember the first shotI ever took a small 6 point (at the time you had to kill a buck unless you got lucky and had got the special doe tag) I saw this buck at 15 yards at last light. I was on the ground. It got dark and we went back out to find my arrow had hit a limb and buried in the ground... I was heatbroken but more determined.

I never got another shot until I was in the Army at my duty station. We had a on post hunting club. I shot my first deer the first day of the hunt. I spined the young doe and was hooked forever.

I got into Trad years later. I had taken woodworking in High school and loved it so making my own bow was a cool tie to two hobbies I realy love.

Ok a little long winded but thats the story. Many deer later with gun and bow. Not as much as most as I usualy only take one a year. But thats what I eat so that all I take. This year I'mwanting a second just for extra meat. My daughter is hunting nowtoo so I may end up with 3 this year if everything goes right. :D

RE: how did everyone get into bowhunting?
 

My Dad started me gun hunting. I wanted to hunt more so I took up bow hunting.

RE: how did everyone get into bowhunting?
 

Dad took me gun hunting in the fourth grade once, later that year he took me pheasant hunting. After that, thats all i wanted to do. In 9th grade a buddy of mines dad got him into bowhunting, so he made me get one too. Together we started bowhunting and pretty much taught each other everything we could through trial and error. We got pretty serious and got permission on peices of land and bought stands and the works. Loved it so much i got my dad intobowhunting a few years ago, and now he is hooked and even admits its way more fun with a bow then a gun. My dad was more of weekend warrior hunter then anything, since i took it to the next level and he is now retired he is taking it to the next level himself because of me. Its what i love

RE: how did everyone get into bowhunting?
 

I started as soon as I realized that I could get into the woods almost a whole month and a half earlier than I could before.

RE: how did everyone get into bowhunting?
 

my Grandfather go me started. I started hunting as soon as i was old enough. i wanted to go deer hunting right off the bat. but my grandpa didnt want me taking a high powered rifle yet. so he told me if i could pul his older model PSE i could start bowhunting first. for me it was my first miss. i had such a big rush of being that close. i did rifle hunt for a while because with school and work my time was limited.
one season i walked to my stand and within 30 min i had a 8 pointer down. i thought to myself that was to easy. i haven't picked up my gun since.

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I started as a kid. At the age of 8 I bought a bear glass recurve and taught my self to shoot. No one in my family cared about bows, so I was on my own. I then started hunting rabbits, fish, frogs,and tree rates with it. When i got a little older, my brother bought me a real bow, a herters recurve which I could use to shoot bigger game. I hunted with that bow for years, and sometime in the early80s I bought my first compound, a person bush master. I hunted with that bow a bit but soon went back to my recurve. I went through several compounds, but never stuck with one as my go to bow. Just used them as back ups. I then got into bowyer and started making my own recurves and longbows. I pretty much hunt with my own custom bows now, with the exception of that old 1978 Herters recurve (shot two deer with that bow this year;)). I did take some time off from bow hunting durning college. No time or money. But did take several deer with a rifle. Only chance I had to hunt was with rifles and on friends land.

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I started hunting small game or anything that moved at a very early age mostly on my own-my dad had hunted during the depression mostly for the meat & really wasn't into it when I started. In 74 I rifle hunted for the first time & shot a decent 10 on opening morning that I still have hanging on the wall. At that time residents had to draw a tag & it usually took 2 years to draw a tag for rifle season. When they made it legal to apply for a rifle tag & buy a bow tag when unsuccessful in the draw I started bow hunting. I think that was 83. Been bow hunting ever since & it is pretty much what I look forward to every year.

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closest place to hunt.

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I started going with my dad when he was hunting geese in kindergarten, i with him bow hunting once a few years after that. i went rifle hunting for deer when i was in high school i shot two deer with a rifle then after that i started bow hunting. my dad kind of showed me the ropes and i started to take my self out. I learned there ways pretty fast an i now have my first bow kill after two seasons of bow hunting. needless to say i am hooked.