Who do you have to thank?

[awbowman]

Warren Womack, Murray Landry and Greg Gravois.  It's hard not to like something when involved with good people.

[threeunder]

I'm not sure where the desire to get into trad archery came from, but I'll have to thank my wife for buying me my first longbow in Christmas 2005.
As far as support in this sport, the only support I've gotten has been from the site here.  There are no other trad shooters here.  So, you guys are my source of information and encouragement.
But, the person that got me into the outdoors was my dad.  Dad was never much of a hunter (I never saw him kill anything), but he took me deer hunting in 1978.  We hunted each year and I was bit by the bug to pursue game.  His heart wasn't in it, but he took me every chance he had.  The last day we hunted together, was the day I killed my first deer in 1986.  Thanks dad!
Ken

[emac396]

My Dad and Jerry J, 2 men I watched and admired all my life.    Thanks Jerry I'm sure you will read this.

[ishoot4thrills]

My dad hunted with recurve back in the '70s and he let me shoot that old Shakespeare back then. I hunted groundhogs with it during summer break from school(never killed any with it but I did get close once). I had my stint with wheelies in the '80s. He later got back into archery in the '90s when I got out of wheelies and into trad. We went to 3D shoots together with our recurves and longbows and hunted whitetails together as well. It was a great time.

I never did thank him for introducing me to the bow and arrow.

He passed away in 2009 at the age of 66. I really miss him.

[Cyclic-Rivers]

In Order specifically. This doesn't include the people who made bowhunting and archery what it is today.

Dad

4H
 
Ron W.

I have a couple of co-worker friends to thank for introducing me to trad archery. I also have to thank Rod Jenkins for teaching me how to somewhat harness back tension and making me shoot better (after doing it the hard way for nearly 15yrs)!

Bisch

[redpepper49]

My father. When I was 10 in 1959 my dad took me to the woods with his ever sharp axe. He found a red cedar to his liking and then and there made me the finest bow a boy that had never had a bow could wish for. Nothing that swims,flies, or runs would ever be safe again  form my arrows made of weeds and heads of hammered nails. He went on to the happy hunting grounds soon after but not before teaching me of the spirits of the forrest.

[carpenter]

My Dad.

[adamgti]

There are definitely more people then I can mention on here, but here goes anyways. Dennis with hit-r-done archery, Calvin the man who got me Started, Bert with quartermoon and everyone elsewho shoots up here in Alberta for making it enjoyable. Oh and Sean mayan by childhood friend who is the powerhouse in the mountains who always carries more then his weight.

[huntmaster80]

Everyone who ever helped me along the road!!!! Oh, and my wife, who now shoots with me!!!!

[wooddamon1]

My Dad and Gramps for hunting in general, and my old friend Brian T for getting me hooked on bowhunting 18 or so years ago...

[JParanee]

My grandfather
Father
Older brother

And

The Wensels  

[Ray Hammond]

All my true friends are bowhunters and have been right by me when I needed them. That's a blessing you can never say THANKS enough for!

I've made some new friends in just the past three years or so- Alex  Chris Larry Paul Matt rick doug Jed Jared Lin woody just to name a few-  it's amazing how many- too many to mention- I feel like we are almost family...

[Sixby]

I was born with a bow in my hand and a quiver full of arrow on my back.

My mother took me out when I was five and cut me a bow out of a tree limb and made me some arrows for it. When I was about 8 or 9 I saw Howard Hill shoot an exhibition and that year for Christmas I got my first bow that shot real arrows. It was a solid fiberglass bow from Indian Archery and I had that bow well into manhood. I could hit anything with it. I have never been in that kind of groove again with a bow. I could shoot rabbits on the run . Ate rabbit a couple of times a week. Even hit a dove flying. I would walk around the big farm pond and scare the bull frogs in and wait for them to come up out in the water and shoot them. i may have missed but I remember connecting with five big frogs one day showing off for my mom and dad. Problem was I had to swim to get them out of the water. In those days I lived every day with a bow in my hand roaming the Missouri woods and creeks.

That never gets out of your blood.

God bless you all, Steve

[broketooth]

i have to thank Batman, Ber643, John Dill, PatB. Stiks-n-Strings, pearldrums, and kellyb. thanks all for the inspiration and your insight to keep going. rv

[saltwatertom]

Fred Bear.  

[marshratTC]

Several guys on texasbowhunter.com  

Can't thank them enough as they encouraged me, steered me in the right direction and still answer my dumb questions.

[jonsimoneau]

As far as my bow hunting I mostly have Gene and Barry to thank.  I came across Genes first book as a young boy and read it so many times I still to this day have it mostly memorized.  This was before I was old enough to bow hunt.  Aside from that I have to thank my dad.  Although he does not hunt..he took crucial time off of work to take me hunting because he knew it was like life or death importance to me.  Now I'm blessed to have like minded lifelong friends and a wife who gets it.

[xia_emperor]

My wife! she wanted to try traditional archery and thought compounds were stupid. I was shooting a compound and started to try her equipment. I fell in love.

[Shane C]

I'm new to trad archery and pretty new to hunting in general. Only been hunting for going on 4 years this fall, 3 years with a bow in general, and I just got my first recurve this month.
I'd have to thank my dad for teaching me to live the great outdoors, even though he has never hunted (hoping to take him out once he moves back Stateside).
My uncle for teaching me everything I know about hunting. I shot my first deer with him. He's the one who got me interested in shooting a trad bow.
My wife for supporting my passion for hunting even though she hates to go hunting she always supports me.