3Rivers Archery



The Trad Gang Digital Market












Contribute to Trad Gang and Access the Classifieds!

Become a Trad Gang Sponsor!

Traditional Archery for Bowhunters






LEFT HAND BOWS CLASSIFIEDS TRAD GANG CLASSIFIEDS ACCESS RIGHT HAND BOWS CLASSIFIEDS


« previous next »
Pages: 1 ... 6 7 [8] 9 10   Go Down

Author Topic: How old were you?  (Read 4850 times)

Offline Ron LaClair

  • TG HALL OF FAME
  • Trad Bowhunter
  • *****
  • Posts: 5405
Re: How old were you?
« Reply #140 on: November 12, 2012, 08:42:00 AM »
My dad made me my first bow when I was 6 years old. When I was 9 years old. I got a hickory bow and arrow set from the Sears/Robuck catalog. I won my 1st archery award in 1947 when I was 11 and I've never owned a compound bow. At 76 years old I've been shooting a traditional bow for 70 years. Started bow hunting deer in 1955.


   
Logged
We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Life is like a wet sponge, you gotta squeeze it until you get every drop it has to offer

  • Guest
Re: How old were you?
« Reply #141 on: November 12, 2012, 09:45:00 AM »
That's cool, Ron!

I got introduced into archery at age 27 (wheels). I had several friends that shot sticks and after a couple years of the wheels I finally got my first recurve. It was a Bear Kodiak Hunter. I played with it while still shooting my wheelie bow. One day I went to a 3D shoot with my recurve and a quiver full of arrows. I had to borrow an arrow on the last target because every one I had brought was either lost, bent, or broken. That day I learned how hard trad was. It became a challenge to me and I swore I was going to learn how to do it. I put up the wheels and have pretty much only shot the trad bows since that day. So, I guess I was 29 or 30 when I started trad archery.

That was just over 20 years ago and I am still learning and striving to get better today!

Bisch
Logged

Offline Running Buck

  • Trad Bowhunter
  • **
  • Posts: 340
Re: How old were you?
« Reply #142 on: November 12, 2012, 11:13:00 AM »
I shot my first recurve when I was 10. Bought a wing Thunderbird recurve at 14, and my first compound, a bear polar LTD at 19. Been shooting both ever since, at 55 I still manage to take a few deer with each during the season.
Logged

Offline DeerSpotter

  • Trad Bowhunter
  • **
  • Posts: 1296
Re: How old were you?
« Reply #143 on: November 12, 2012, 11:23:00 AM »
I was 10 years old ,Started at a YMCA summer camp.  I got Fred Bear long bow and shared it with my Cousins. it was a Fred Bear green fiberglass bow. don't know what ever happened to it. but I've always had a stick bow since then. got my first deer in 1973. took me a long time to connect ,but every step in the woods was worth it .


Carl
Logged
--------------------------
 Heb.13:5-6

Offline BaldingEagle

  • Trad Bowhunter
  • **
  • Posts: 545
Re: How old were you?
« Reply #144 on: November 12, 2012, 11:24:00 AM »
I am 52 and started around 8 years old.  Only switched to the 'Dark Side' for about 4 years, then came back.
Logged
"It is the difficulties of archery that make it so interesting to true archers."
Archery-Badminton Library

Offline hardtimes

  • Trad Bowhunter
  • **
  • Posts: 448
Re: How old were you?
« Reply #145 on: November 12, 2012, 11:38:00 AM »
I started with an old Blackhawk recurve when I was 5. It still hangs on my bow rack to this day. I am now 32 and just switched over to longbows from recurves about two years ago. I still have a compound and shoot it every now and then.
Logged

Offline degabe

  • Trad Bowhunter
  • **
  • Posts: 286
Re: How old were you?
« Reply #146 on: November 12, 2012, 02:28:00 PM »
I think I was 5 or 6 when my Dad gave me a bow an indian made for him when he was a kid. I still have that bow on the rack. It has not even had a string for years to keep the grandkids from pulling it. I don't think eighty year old hickory would be up to much work these days.
Logged

Offline kill shot

  • Trad Bowhunter
  • **
  • Posts: 987
Re: How old were you?
« Reply #147 on: November 12, 2012, 02:39:00 PM »
5 years old. 52 now. still feel like a kid when I have a bow in my hands.
Logged

Offline Jayrod

  • TG HALL OF FAME
  • Trad Bowhunter
  • *****
  • Posts: 3232
Re: How old were you?
« Reply #148 on: November 12, 2012, 02:49:00 PM »
I was 28 when I made the switch to stick and
string ...been 4 yrs got 4does and 3 spring gobblers LOVIN EVERY MINUTE of it!!!!!!
Logged
NRA Life member

Compton traditional bowhunter member

Online durp

  • Trad Bowhunter
  • **
  • Posts: 1071
Re: How old were you?
« Reply #149 on: November 12, 2012, 04:01:00 PM »
8 and now 58...enjoy the ride.
Logged

Offline Stone Sheep

  • Trad Bowhunter
  • **
  • Posts: 197
Re: How old were you?
« Reply #150 on: November 12, 2012, 06:03:00 PM »
3
Logged
Compton Traditional Bowhunters Board of Directors (past)
United Bowunters of Missouri Board of Directors

Offline 3arrows

  • Trad Bowhunter
  • **
  • Posts: 399
Re: How old were you?
« Reply #151 on: November 12, 2012, 06:19:00 PM »
Ron was shooting good before i was born.Used to make my own bows out of tree limbs and would buy arrow at hardware store for 25 cents.50 something now 64.
Logged
Believe in nothing,fall for anything

Offline daniel reynolds

  • Trad Bowhunter
  • **
  • Posts: 165
Re: How old were you?
« Reply #152 on: November 13, 2012, 06:34:00 AM »
Early 20's
Logged
Obama,what a joke!

Offline YORNOC

  • Trad Bowhunter
  • **
  • Posts: 2993
Re: How old were you?
« Reply #153 on: November 13, 2012, 07:07:00 AM »
19, hung up the compound. About to turn 45.
Logged
David M. Conroy

Offline Red Beastmaster

  • Trad Bowhunter
  • **
  • Posts: 1766
Re: How old were you?
« Reply #154 on: November 13, 2012, 08:09:00 AM »
27
Logged
There is no great fun, satisfaction, or joy derived from doing something that's easy.  Coach John Wooden

Offline Sarah

  • Trad Bowhunter
  • **
  • Posts: 285
Re: How old were you?
« Reply #155 on: November 13, 2012, 12:26:00 PM »
20
Logged

Offline Bobaru

  • Trad Bowhunter
  • **
  • Posts: 446
Re: How old were you?
« Reply #156 on: November 13, 2012, 08:43:00 PM »
14  Year 1964.  Hung up my compound ... Oh, wait!  no.  Getting senile....  Didn't have no compound.

If you got one hunting with wheels, it meant the front grill of the car was busted in.  So, yea, I got one with wheels way back too....
Logged
Bob


 "A man has to control himself before he can control his bow." Jay Massey

Offline vermonster13

  • TGMM Member
  • Trad Bowhunter
  • ***
  • Posts: 14572
Re: How old were you?
« Reply #157 on: November 13, 2012, 09:13:00 PM »
4 years old. It was just archery then.
Logged
TGMM Family of the Bow
For hunting to have a future, we must invest ourselves in future hunters.

Offline kbetts

  • Trad Bowhunter
  • **
  • Posts: 1610
Re: How old were you?
« Reply #158 on: November 13, 2012, 09:18:00 PM »
Ummm...thirty something.  But I've been shooting bows since I could make my own.  Compounds until my early twenties and after I missed a couple of deer, I layed the stick bow down for awhile.  Picked it back up about four years ago and haven't looked back.
Logged
"The overhead view is of me in a maze...you see what I'm hunting a few steps away."  Phish

Offline lablover

  • Trad Bowhunter
  • **
  • Posts: 631
Re: How old were you?
« Reply #159 on: November 14, 2012, 10:14:00 AM »
Started shooting at around 7 or 8. But started hunting with a Ben Pearson at 13. I'm now 57 I shot my sons compound after I retired from the Navy but soon went back to my recurve. Never been sorry.
Logged
Bowhunting is a passion, not an obsession. Its just hard for my wife to tell the difference sometimes.
Pages: 1 ... 6 7 [8] 9 10   Go Up
« previous next »

Users currently browsing this topic:

0 Members and 3 Guests are viewing this topic.
 

Contact Us | Trad Gang.com © | User Agreement

Copyright 2003 thru 2024 ~ Trad Gang.com ©