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Offline John in Grayling

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Re: How long have you been TRAD???
« Reply #140 on: December 08, 2011, 08:45:00 PM »
Since 1968, when I got my first Little Bear.
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Re: How long have you been TRAD???
« Reply #141 on: December 08, 2011, 09:45:00 PM »
Started hunting in the mid 70's with a Browning Safari 2. Shot my first deer with a Hoyt Hunt Master i think in 82. Bought my first custom bow an Assenheimer in the late 80's. Been hunting for about 34 years with trad equipment and only 2 years with a compound.
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Offline TDHunter

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Re: How long have you been TRAD???
« Reply #142 on: December 08, 2011, 09:56:00 PM »
20+ years  since I tossed the wheels. Never looked back.
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Offline Stan the bow man

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Re: How long have you been TRAD???
« Reply #143 on: December 08, 2011, 10:16:00 PM »
Threw the wheels away in 1992. Been Trad shooting ever since and have not look back. Still love the romance of the  longbow and wood arrows .   :archer2:
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Offline akbowbender

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Re: How long have you been TRAD???
« Reply #144 on: December 08, 2011, 11:01:00 PM »
29 years since I last shot wheels. The first bow I got was an American Archery Cheeta. I think it was 60" 75# @ 28". It stacked like the devil at my draw length, which was over 29". Got this deer with it:
 
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Offline Joshua Polland

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Re: How long have you been TRAD???
« Reply #145 on: December 08, 2011, 11:19:00 PM »
Four years, but the last 2 1/12 has been where it has started to really consume me. I'm sure no one knows what I'm talking about:)
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Offline Roger Norris

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Re: How long have you been TRAD???
« Reply #146 on: December 09, 2011, 06:25:00 AM »
I'm 49, been shooting traditional bows since I was 5 or 6 (still have it, a York green glass bow). I had a 2 season experiment with compounds when I was about 23-24....

As an aside, i still have every recurve I had growing up. The Bear Tigercat I used on my first real hunting day (I was 12) still hangs on my wall.
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Re: How long have you been TRAD???
« Reply #147 on: December 09, 2011, 07:09:00 AM »
Nearly 15 years.
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Re: How long have you been TRAD???
« Reply #148 on: December 09, 2011, 09:31:00 AM »
Got my first Longbow in November 1990. Never have shot a compound and don't even want to try.
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Offline Bowwild

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Re: How long have you been TRAD???
« Reply #149 on: December 09, 2011, 09:41:00 AM »
Started with a Pearson Couger around 1967. First hunted big game with it in 1970--killed the first live deer I ever saw with that bow in Oct. 1970. (I didn't live in deer country).

Hunted with recurves until 1975.  Left with most bowhunters that year for the next 26 years. I spent the 2001 season with a Fox High Sierra curve. Went back to my modern ways from 2002 until 2010. This season marks my 2nd year of committed return to recurve bows.

I've 'missed' only one year of bowhunting since I started BG hunting in 1970. I 'boycotted' the 1991 Kansas season the last year I lived there.
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Re: How long have you been TRAD???
« Reply #150 on: December 09, 2011, 10:35:00 AM »
Long before it was called "trad" and before they had "wheels". Next year will be my 50th year bowhunting with recurves.
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Offline lovethehunt

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Re: How long have you been TRAD???
« Reply #151 on: December 09, 2011, 11:04:00 AM »
I lost the wheels in 1994. Still feels great.
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Offline Rock 'N Bow

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Re: How long have you been TRAD???
« Reply #152 on: December 09, 2011, 02:50:00 PM »
Since I missed a slam dunk shot with a compound. About 12 years. I find trad gear more reliable than all the gizmos on a compound. Nothing to get out of whack.
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Offline 3arrows

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Re: How long have you been TRAD???
« Reply #153 on: December 09, 2011, 04:33:00 PM »
Back when it was normal,late sixes.
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Offline saltwatertom

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Re: How long have you been TRAD???
« Reply #154 on: December 10, 2011, 12:03:00 AM »
50+ years (but who's counting?). Never heard it called "trad" till I came here.
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Offline sagebrush

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Re: How long have you been TRAD???
« Reply #155 on: December 10, 2011, 01:00:00 AM »
43 years. Back then it was just archery.
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Offline BJP

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Re: How long have you been TRAD???
« Reply #156 on: December 10, 2011, 09:08:00 AM »
10 years. Been hunting 11 only had training weels for one year.
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Re: How long have you been TRAD???
« Reply #157 on: December 10, 2011, 10:15:00 AM »
Started in 69 and lost my way in the desert, but not for 40 years, and found my way back to the promised land. The grass grows greener for me on this side of the mountain.
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Offline sheephunter

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Re: How long have you been TRAD???
« Reply #158 on: December 10, 2011, 12:18:00 PM »
Made the switch when my Dad did in 1995. I was thirteen then. Had two compounds and shot them on and off but always had Trad bows. First was a 40# Shakespeare. So 16 years now.
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Offline StickBowManMI

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Re: How long have you been TRAD???
« Reply #159 on: December 10, 2011, 08:37:00 PM »
42 years and counting. Love shooting my longbows. Trad Bows are only bows I have ever shot.
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