Old Farters

[Don Stokes]

This will be my 48th consecutive season. I shot my broadheads today for the last time before sharpening, and then got them all hair-popping sharp. Headed up to MO soon for a couple of weeks of serious bowhunting, then taking a break before another serious week of bowhunting during the rut in November, the week before rifle season. I'll turn 63 somewhere along in there. I'm usually in a tree on my birthday.

[bolong]

I been doing it 49 years now. Can't wait till October 1. Just like a kid waiting on Santa Claus.

[centaur]

Started chasing small animals in the 50's, was a '2 season hunter' back in the 70's, and been nothing but a bowhunter since the 80's. I will be eligible for Medicare on my next birthday (if it still exists by then). Seems like it is more fun every year.

[Canadabowyer]

Got my first bow at age 5, been shooting ever since. 64 now with a tin hip and will be in my new "Chippewa Wedge Lock" over a secret lick for our Bullmoose archery opening Oct. 1.Can't wait!! Bob

[wooddamon1]

Wow guys! This is only my 18th year with the trad bow, thanks for making me feel like a pup!  

[lpcjon2]

This thread smells of Bengay...LOL your only as old as you want to be,Keep up the hunten boys.

[Bladepeek]

I'll be 71 by the time bow season(s) end here in MI. Never carried a bow in the woods until 2 years ago and now I'm thinking about all the time I wasted. In my defense, most of those years were spent as a contractor working in Germany and they don't, or at least didn't, allow bow hunting there. I just traded a beautiful Ruger No 1 single shot .257 Roberts for a new bow. Now I need to learn how to shoot my bow like I could shoot that .257 R. Of course it gets expensive when you starting putting arrows through the same hole :-(

[bluntman]

Guess Im just a youngster compared to you old farts, this is my 38th year of bowhunting, started when I was 12, took first deer with a no name $5 yard sale find at age 15

[Terry Lightle]

#40 for me,loo0king forward to retiring in a few years so I can spend more time in the woods chasin em

[tradbower]

62 yrs young been shooting trad for 52 and hope that I have another 62 or more left

[The Whittler]

57-58 years for me. Just turned 62 last month( August). I started going with my dad when I was 4-5 yr.

My dad loved to hunt and fish, and past it on to me at an early age and I still love being in the woods whether I get a deer or not.

If I see a deer that is great, but I do not have to shoot one to enjoy hunting.

[bowmac]

46 years. Blowed out right shoulder 5 years ago and switched to lefthand. Hope it lasts the rest of the way.

[fishone]

I'm 60 and have been bow hunting from the mid 1970's. I am still climbing trees with a climber. I sure hope I got a few (quite a few) years left. Still love bow hunting.

[vintage archer]

I am 72 year old  and do not let anyone call me a old fart!
Except my wife,I think that is what she calls me?I forget!!  

[redpepper49]

Im 62 my dad took me and a axe to the woods when i was 10 and cut a cedar and made me a bow with axe and pocket knife thats when i started chasing animals with arrows . harvested my first deer of the season sunday morn .  wish all you old farts many many more  seasons .

[Roadkill]

63 here and been shooting since I was 8. I love it and always have loved seeing an arrow fly

[Pat B.]

I got my first bow 51 years ago, when I was 6.

I took a couple of breaks over the years but my interest never left. Now I hunt every chance I get...

[doowop]

I turn 62 in Oct. Been at it for 37 years. Still can't wait!

[kpete]

Got my first bow at 7 with 6 beautiful cedar arrow from Holly Martin at Mar-bow in Chadron Nebraska.  Started hunting big game 37 years ago at 16.  Carrying recurves and longbows the whole time.  Now making my own.

[RRock]

been shooting bows for a long time, with the help from my uncle started when i was 6. Started bowhunting in 1969 when I got out of the Marine Corps, been going at it ever since.

This year will be special, I started building wood and canvas canoes and will be using one I built for a couple float hunts this fall. really looking forward to doing that.