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Author Topic: How long have you been TRAD???  (Read 5118 times)

Offline 3Feathers

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How long have you been TRAD???
« on: December 02, 2011, 06:09:00 PM »
Just wondering how long you gangers been shooting trad?
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Offline MercilessMing

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Re: How long have you been TRAD???
« Reply #1 on: December 02, 2011, 06:14:00 PM »
3 years trad, and ever since the first time shooting arrows.

Offline KSdan

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Re: How long have you been TRAD???
« Reply #2 on: December 02, 2011, 06:15:00 PM »
23 years
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Offline COLongbow

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Re: How long have you been TRAD???
« Reply #3 on: December 02, 2011, 06:18:00 PM »
3 years trad. Before that 10 years with the training wheels.
Before that lots of shotguns and rifles. East and west US.
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Offline TOEJAMMER

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Re: How long have you been TRAD???
« Reply #4 on: December 02, 2011, 06:19:00 PM »
65 years.

Offline A.S.

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Re: How long have you been TRAD???
« Reply #5 on: December 02, 2011, 06:21:00 PM »
21 years since my first "real" trad bow (a Zipper). I grew up with kids stick bows and my dad and uncle always had recurves around for me to gawk at!

Offline Gray Buffalo

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Re: How long have you been TRAD???
« Reply #6 on: December 02, 2011, 06:21:00 PM »
Since the early 1950's except for a short time 1971 thru 1976 I did play with a com-com-com I can't even say it. In 1976 I went back to the longbow and I'm still loving it
I try not to let my mind wander...It is too small and fragile to be out by itself.

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Offline Tim

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Re: How long have you been TRAD???
« Reply #7 on: December 02, 2011, 06:22:00 PM »
Got my first recurve at 12 yrs old, a Pearson.   Had a few others and some compounds over the next 9 years.  

I got back into it pretty heavy in 1988,  when i odered my first custom bow, a Brackenberry Legend recurve.   Been buying and shooting ever since!

Offline Widow's Son

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Re: How long have you been TRAD???
« Reply #8 on: December 02, 2011, 06:28:00 PM »
I've never really shot anything else.
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Offline Craig Schoneberg

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Re: How long have you been TRAD???
« Reply #9 on: December 02, 2011, 06:34:00 PM »
Since 1958 . . . first archery deer permit in 1966.
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Offline Keith Langford

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Re: How long have you been TRAD???
« Reply #10 on: December 02, 2011, 06:38:00 PM »
3 years this coming april, 35 with a compound before that, still hunt with slug gun,rifle,muzzleloader, really love it all. The longbow is by far my favorite way to hunt though.
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Online Hermon

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Re: How long have you been TRAD???
« Reply #11 on: December 02, 2011, 06:40:00 PM »
26 years

Offline guspup

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Re: How long have you been TRAD???
« Reply #12 on: December 02, 2011, 06:40:00 PM »
4 years deer hunting with a longbow. Been fortunate to get deer 3 of the 4 years. Shot alot with bow as a kid. Bought a compound a while back and sold it a week later. Seemed too complicated to me. All my other years of hunting have been with black powder and an old LC Smith. I Just like the old traditional stuff. But that's just me, it's all good :-)

Offline Wiley Coyote

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Re: How long have you been TRAD???
« Reply #13 on: December 02, 2011, 06:43:00 PM »
20 years. I started in 1991. Only regret was the 5 years of using that gizmo with the training wheels before that. Oh well, I always was a slow learner!!!  :knothead:    :archer2:    :dunno:
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Offline LITTLEBIGMAN

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Re: How long have you been TRAD???
« Reply #14 on: December 02, 2011, 06:49:00 PM »
27 years.............
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Offline Ground Hunter

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Re: How long have you been TRAD???
« Reply #15 on: December 02, 2011, 06:53:00 PM »
41 years.

Offline BRITTMAN

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Re: How long have you been TRAD???
« Reply #16 on: December 02, 2011, 06:55:00 PM »
Around 7 or 8 years and STILL crazy over it .
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Re: How long have you been TRAD???
« Reply #17 on: December 02, 2011, 07:01:00 PM »
50 years minus the 3 when I was an impressionable teen and shot "one of those things", then came back to a Hill longbow.
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Offline Tree Killer

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Re: How long have you been TRAD???
« Reply #18 on: December 02, 2011, 07:04:00 PM »
Bought my first recurve in 1985. 26 years
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Re: How long have you been TRAD???
« Reply #19 on: December 02, 2011, 07:04:00 PM »
41 years, first trad harvest 1972
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