Old guys, where were you summer of 69?

[Basinboy]

I was just a yearling back then but I’m sure I was trying to build a bow out of a switch my mom used to tear my azz up for being an outgoing boy 

[achigan]

In the process of flunking out of Navy “A” school before being sent to Viet Nam. I came to traditional archery only 7-8 years ago.

[Dan bree]

Just getting out of high school and signed up for the draft in Vietnam but I drew a high number shooting my 66 Kodiak hunting rats down a dumps

[2fletch]

I was a couple of years out of the 82 Airborne, married with one son, working for the largest textile company in the world (Burlington, Industries) , going to school at nights, and had no time for much else. It wasn't until the 1990s that I got back to shooting a bow. In a couple of years I had taken possession of about a hundred recurves that I found at flea market and yard sales. It is difficult to make up for lost time. 

[1Longbow]

High school in Pulaski NY, fishing the Salmon river

[rastaman]

Byron International Pop Festival (previous year was Atlanta International Pop Festival but was banned from coming back).  Bought my first recurve..I think a Bear Grizzly and never looked back!

[Lonster]

I was learning to crawl.

[fishone]

I just graduated from High School.

[Pat B]

I was at the Byron Festival too, I think that was the summer of '70 but I was also at the Palm Beach Festival in the fall of 69". I had just started college in Jansen Beach Fl. 

[kennym]

I was 13 , hauling hay, building fence, riding a dirt bike , and fishing. 

A big thank you to all you veterans, it was over when I got to 18 or maybe selective service. 

[Roy from Pa]

Dang, Kenny and Pat, you guys are really old:)
 

[Flem]

I was a love child.

[Ronnie Newell]

Was a busy busy yr for me but a good one. Workwise, life style wise, bowhunting and family(daughter was born). Could write a book abt that one.

[2wfstlhunting]

I was graduating from high school, had the first date with the girl that I ended up marrying 8 years later, went off to Europe with my Grandparents and then came back to start college in Boston.  It was one heck of a year.

[Al Dean]

Viet Nam July 69-July 70

[Pat B]

Hey, Roy, we're just mature for our age.     
 My older brother was in Nam in 1969. My Dad passed in April that year. They brought my bro home then sent him back after the funeral. My Mom didn't want him to come home just to go back.

[Jim Wright]

I was shortly before being turned out of a 5 year Pipefitter Apprenticeship Program. When I was I went out to Las Vegas and worked at the Nuclear Test Site to the North next to area 51 and must have liked it. Since then I've spent 12 years working in 21 states from Alaska to Florida and just got home from a job in Illinois on Monday.

[Flem]

!!Holy Crap Jim Wright, you have been working a long time

[Gun]

Fishing. Two more years of High School

[Jim Wright]

Flem, I guess I have, I see you are in Montana, my wife and I lived there in 1973&74 and I return often to the west side of the state to fly fish and visit friends in Ronan. I am lucky to have been born at the right time and to have been able to go to a lot of places I wanted to for work. And for some time now I have been able to continue to work in "covered employment" and draw a full pension as well as social security. I'm blessed with good genes and good health and I never was one of the guys that hated his job and couldn't wait to get out. Plus I have a fairly low I.Q.