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Author Topic: How long have you been TRAD???  (Read 5135 times)

Offline Benner

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Re: How long have you been TRAD???
« Reply #20 on: December 02, 2011, 07:12:00 PM »
26 years

Offline TC in Spfld

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Re: How long have you been TRAD???
« Reply #21 on: December 02, 2011, 07:13:00 PM »
Bought my first bow (Browning Nomad) on time payments from my paper route in 1963.  Slipped over to the dark side 1976 to 1982 before clearing my head!

Offline twitchstick

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Re: How long have you been TRAD???
« Reply #22 on: December 02, 2011, 07:13:00 PM »
I shoot trad from 1989-1995. Then shoot a compound barebow until 2009. I was married and still was in school and working,it just seemed easier at the time I guess. I always keep my longbow and recurve around and would still shoot here and there. I always new I was going to switch back it just took longer than I thought.

Offline Gehrke145

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Re: How long have you been TRAD???
« Reply #23 on: December 02, 2011, 07:14:00 PM »
On and off for about 15years, can't seem to pick trad over wheels or the other way around lol

Offline cbCrow

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Re: How long have you been TRAD???
« Reply #24 on: December 02, 2011, 07:19:00 PM »
Been shooting trad since 1962, except for the years of 1976-1980, when I shot compounds.So 45 years ,there abouts.

Offline Jack Whitmire Jr

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Re: How long have you been TRAD???
« Reply #25 on: December 02, 2011, 07:24:00 PM »
22 years
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Offline BOSS

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Re: How long have you been TRAD???
« Reply #26 on: December 02, 2011, 07:24:00 PM »
31 year

Offline waknstak IL

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Re: How long have you been TRAD???
« Reply #27 on: December 02, 2011, 07:25:00 PM »
7 years. Started shooting in 04 and have never hunted with a compound again.
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Offline wooddamon1

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Re: How long have you been TRAD???
« Reply #28 on: December 02, 2011, 07:26:00 PM »
18 years and counting...
"The history of the bow and arrow is the history of mankind..."-Fred Bear

Offline Gentry

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Re: How long have you been TRAD???
« Reply #29 on: December 02, 2011, 07:31:00 PM »
15 years.......
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Re: How long have you been TRAD???
« Reply #30 on: December 02, 2011, 07:34:00 PM »
Shot a recurve as a kid cause that's all there was. Bought a compound when I decided I wanted to hunt with a bow although I did ask the shop owner if they had any recurves(they didn't) bought an old recurve from a newspaper classified add practiced on and off with it for about 3years before deciding I wanted to use a recurve to kil just one deer.
Been 20 some odd years and never had a desire to shoot a compound again.
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Offline JCJ

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Re: How long have you been TRAD???
« Reply #31 on: December 02, 2011, 07:34:00 PM »
43 years. Killed my first deer with a Herter's recurve in 1976. Never got interested in the compound thing although I did own one for a couple months in the late 1970's.

Offline MikeW

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Re: How long have you been TRAD???
« Reply #32 on: December 02, 2011, 07:39:00 PM »
Got my first bow about the time I was 9, am 53 now.
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

Offline Elk whisperer

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Re: How long have you been TRAD???
« Reply #33 on: December 02, 2011, 07:47:00 PM »
I was  trad before trad was cool
The older I get the better I was

Online SS Snuffer

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Re: How long have you been TRAD???
« Reply #34 on: December 02, 2011, 07:59:00 PM »
1st bought recurve in 1966
Chuck
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Kota Kill-Um 60" 42 lb.
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Offline Schafer

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Re: How long have you been TRAD???
« Reply #35 on: December 02, 2011, 08:11:00 PM »
Figure Im 17 now. Subtract about two years for being to small. So right around 15 years.    :goldtooth:  

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Offline Al Natural

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Re: How long have you been TRAD???
« Reply #36 on: December 02, 2011, 08:12:00 PM »
Twenty years plus.

Offline ishoot4thrills

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Re: How long have you been TRAD???
« Reply #37 on: December 02, 2011, 08:15:00 PM »
6 years total plus a few years or so when I was a kid.
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Offline Cyclic-Rivers

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Re: How long have you been TRAD???
« Reply #38 on: December 02, 2011, 08:18:00 PM »
Just started my 3rd year in October.
Relax,

You'll live longer!

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Offline John3

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Re: How long have you been TRAD???
« Reply #39 on: December 02, 2011, 08:23:00 PM »
My Dad bought my first Hoyt recurve in the early 70's. I bought my first recurve a SKY Sky Hawk TD (Earl Hoyt) in 1994.
"There is no excellence in Archery without great labor".  Maurice Thompson 1879

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