Who still has there first bow....

[Cody Roiter]

Before I forget I was lucky as when I first started in archery I had many Trad bows to shoot as my granddad had many.... there was a pearson wood longbow, Bear bearcat, pearson jetbow, old camo pearson colt ( which was the one I shot the most) Then for arrows I used what ever he had and most of them where from the 1940s....

But I had fun any ways.....

Cody

[bayoulongbowman]

Dont have my first but I remember like it was yesterday a yellow fibergalss Ben Pearson 15 pounds less than 2 or 3 months cut enough yards for 30# er man it was sweet it had a target, I think 3 arrows and a tab, I dint use it has I recall, shot lizards , snakes turtles, frogs, squirrel, we had purple martin bird house in our backyard it was my neighbors his name was Marcel we stalked starlings (birds) that would try and take over the purple martin birdhouse , every now and then we'd hit one , mostly with our BB guns, but we gave 999, near heartattacks , I promise..it was fun in the 60's ...I was blessed back then , my Mom and Dad were the best. We guarded those arrows they were pericous, could get replacements...  

[John Scifres]

These are my first three trad bows (excepting an all glass recurve I had as a kid).  I broke the first one I tried to make out of hickory.  All were made in 1996.  The one on the left pulls 58# at my 27" draw.  I hunted with it for a year but never killed anything with it.  I still have it.

The center one pulled 48# when I finished it.  I retillered it and gave it to a young lady at a 4H Shooting Skills seminar I did on selfbows several years ago.

The one on the right is my first shooter.  It pulls 43#.  It still shoots and I still have it.

[wenselkid]

I have the 13lb Bob Savage one piece that my Dad had made for me when I was a child. I stored it away when I moved from home and thought I had lost it when my parent's storage unit burned to the ground. Thankfully, my Dad had removed it and didn't tell me. He gave it back to me as a Christmas gift a few years ago after the birth of my son. Talk about a surprise! You can never replace your first bow!!

[F1Rocket]

What a cool thread. I don't have my first bow....yet!

[Stone Knife]

I still have the bow my dad gave me when I was 10      

[KHALVERSON]

i still have my first hunting wt bow it is a hand me down ben pearson cougar 47# @28
the top limb has twisted twice and i have straightened it still shoots pretty good and my 12 year old enjoys shootin it i hope he gets his first whitetail with it
i have no idea how old the bow is it has been in my possesion 27 years and it was old when i got it

[Sam McMichael]

I still have my first bow. Its a Ben Pearsom Gamester. 45# at 28 inches. I killed my first deer ever with it.

[Cody Roiter]

WOW guys most of u still have your first bows thats great.....

[Bugle1N]

My father's hunting buddy gave me Ben Pearson-Bronco 48" XX35# @ 24" when I was 9 in 1974. I chased pine squirrels with my my dad while he hunted mule deer on the Uncompahgre Plateau in SW Colorado.  I still have that wood/glass laminated recurve and my son will be shooting it pretty soon.  Little did he know just what kind of life long affliction this had started.

[Cody Roiter]

so do any of u guys still have any the arrows u started with.. I have 3 of them that my granddad had gave to me...