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MCNSC
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Shot a recurve as a kid cause that's all there was. Bought a compound when I decided I wanted to hunt with a bow although I did ask the shop owner if they had any recurves(they didn't) bought an old recurve from a newspaper classified add practiced on and off with it for about 3years before deciding I wanted to use a recurve to kil just one deer.
Been 20 some odd years and never had a desire to shoot a compound again.

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"What was big was not the trout, but the chance. What was full was not my creel, but my memory"
Aldo Leopold

"It hasn't worked right since I fixed it" My friend Ken talking about his lawn mower
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JCJ
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43 years. Killed my first deer with a Herter's recurve in 1976. Never got interested in the compound thing although I did own one for a couple months in the late 1970's.
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MikeW
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Got my first bow about the time I was 9, am 53 now.

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Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
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Elk whisperer
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I was trad before trad was cool

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The older I get the better I was
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SS Snuffer
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1st bought recurve in 1966

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Chuck
Kota Kill-Um 60" 42 lbs
Kanati 58" 42 lb.
MFX or Axis 500's
29 1/2" 250gr. Stingers
550gr.total 12.5 GPP 20.3 FOC
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Schafer
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Figure Im 17 now. Subtract about two years for being to small. So right around 15 years. [goldtooth]

Schafer

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54@30 Black Widow P.S.R.
53@29 Randy Morin Banshee
66@29 Schafer Silvertip
50@28 Journeyman Longbow
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Al Natural
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Twenty years plus.
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ishoot4thrills
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6 years total plus a few years or so when I was a kid.

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58" JK Traditions Kanati Longbow
Ten Strand D10 String
Kanati Pro Bow Quiver

Beman MFX 500 Classics cut to 29.25"
250 Grs. Up Front
3 X 4" Feathers
555 Grs. Arrow Wt.
49# @ 26.75"(My Draw Length)
160 FPS @ 11.3 GPP
21% F.O.C.
3 Fingers Under
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Cyclic-Rivers
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Just started my 3rd year in October.

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Relax,

You'll live longer!

Charlie Janssen

>~TGMM~> <~Family~Of~The~Bow~<
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John3
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My Dad bought my first Hoyt recurve in the early 70's. I bought my first recurve a SKY Sky Hawk TD (Earl Hoyt) in 1994.

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"There is no excellence in Archery without great labor".
Maurice Thompson 1879
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Eric Sprick
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Doesn't really seem that long ago but it started 27 years ago with a Ben Pearson Mustang. Still in love.
I still have that "first love" hanging on the wall.

Eric

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Mohawk 55@28 Osage Coco Boo & Yew
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Russ H
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Since I was 12 (1965).
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ChrisM
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6 Great short years.

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Gods greatest command: Love your neighbor as you love yourself.
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Craig
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About 20 years. My first longbow a Leon Stewart. A very good friend took me over to Leon's shop and that started it all.

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Schafer Silvertip
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Balding Kansan
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Proud to say all my life, well since I was old enough to pull a bow (maybe 5 or 6). I'm 25 now.

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