Intresting question as I have to chuckle a little because my mom and brother and I use to go to down towne Lake Worth in fla when I was about 5 or 6 and I would always buy one of those wooden kids bow that was real kool looking with indian colours on it with a real thick shoe lace bow string and arrows with suction cups, but don't tell my mom, I use to take the cups off the arrows and sharpen the wood. I guess to this day I can't blame on anyone the way I shoot since I taught myself. Bobby

Hehehe...121553, that reminds me of my childhood days when I'd tie a bent sassafras w/a grass string (hay baling twine) & use assorted weeds for arrows. Tying on chicken feathers for fletching & whatever nail I could find for points completed my set-up. I remember one time when I got in big trouble for killing a red-winged blackbird w/one of those rigs. [&o]

Actually I have been slightly interested in it from the start, but I hunted with a compound, then a guy buy the name Big John Wade got me interested in it some years ago and it has never died since.

A neighbor kid had a bow and he got me interested in shooting. There were no compounds back then. My father deer hunted but not with a bow. He actually thought "sliver slingers" as he called them, were people running around in the woods with toys. That thought ended when he helped me track the first deer I hit. It left a good blood trail which erased that thought from my fathers mindset. The next year he became a sliver slinger.
I moved on to the compound for quite a while, then decided to build myself a laminated recurve. Now I hunt with a homemade laminated longbow.
Dan