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Offline Jesse Minish

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Re: How old were you?
« Reply #160 on: November 14, 2012, 10:39:00 AM »
3 or 4
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Offline Trad Whitetail

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Re: How old were you?
« Reply #161 on: November 14, 2012, 06:04:00 PM »
I was 3.  I have a picture of me with my little plastic longbow shooting in he back yard.  Even blunted a squirrel on the butt when I was three or four with that bow.  Of course the squirrel was fine and finished running up the tree.  I remember it like it was yesterday even though it was 31 years ago.  Good times.
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Offline Woody303

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Re: How old were you?
« Reply #162 on: November 14, 2012, 08:39:00 PM »
I was 5.....now 40 years young.
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Offline Beav

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Re: How old were you?
« Reply #163 on: November 14, 2012, 08:42:00 PM »
Around 5 years old in the mid-'60's shooting with my dad in the backyard at a haybale.
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Offline Kc kreger

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Re: How old were you?
« Reply #164 on: November 14, 2012, 08:59:00 PM »
Probably just old enough to pull back a bear longbow, toy as it was, but that was my first experience.  

Then as a teenager a fellow farm hand loaned me his recurve to shoot some carp and gar with in the river that was close to the farm.

After starting a family and getting into archery with a compound I found I was missing the fun in archery until I rediscovered it in my 40's.  Now at 45 just this season I was blessed to harvest my first white tail with a long bow!

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Offline mtnwalker

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Re: How old were you?
« Reply #165 on: November 15, 2012, 05:32:00 AM »
about the age of 30, shoot compound for awhile before that but they never excited me. oh and i'm 35 now.
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Offline iawoody2

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Re: How old were you?
« Reply #166 on: November 15, 2012, 08:58:00 PM »
My dad got me started when I was 5, that was 1951. Still shooting and going strong at 65.
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Offline Oldskool2

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Re: How old were you?
« Reply #167 on: November 15, 2012, 09:08:00 PM »
Since July, 2012... I'm a newbie to and loving it
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Offline wildgame

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Re: How old were you?
« Reply #168 on: November 15, 2012, 10:44:00 PM »
21 and Im now 28.
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Offline BDann

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Re: How old were you?
« Reply #169 on: November 15, 2012, 11:04:00 PM »
I was 35 when I started with the arrow launchers, and 38 when I started with traditional archery.  I've been addicted since 2006, and now my kids are too.
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Offline ddauler

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Re: How old were you?
« Reply #170 on: November 16, 2012, 09:13:00 AM »
I was 22 never shot a compound now I'm 50. My son is 17 he started at 2? with a little plastic bow and has been going strong every since. He shot several deer with a youth compound now recurve.
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Offline GreyGoose

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Re: How old were you?
« Reply #171 on: November 16, 2012, 09:16:00 AM »
Nine, with homemade (truly primitive) gear. For my 10th birthday received a Bear starter set.  Trad hiatus from age 18 to 51, 53 now.  Glad I got back to it!
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Offline Cobie33

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Re: How old were you?
« Reply #172 on: November 16, 2012, 09:40:00 AM »
32, now 39.  Will love it until I die, never returning back to where I came from.
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Offline Tom Leemans

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Re: How old were you?
« Reply #173 on: November 16, 2012, 09:49:00 AM »
All of the kids in our family started when we turned 5. We all couldn't wait for that birthday! That makes 45 years of arra flingin'.
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Offline Bill Carlsen

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Re: How old were you?
« Reply #174 on: November 16, 2012, 12:48:00 PM »
My dad got me a lemonwood longbow on my eight birthday. That was in 1953.
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Offline laxbowman

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Re: How old were you?
« Reply #175 on: November 16, 2012, 01:41:00 PM »
I started shooting bows my dad (Hackbow) would make for me out of rose bushes and bailing twine when i was 2.  I actually have memories of those times.  I shoot both traditional and compound now but ill always remember those thorn bush bows and arrows. pretty sure i was beatin him then too!   :archer:
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Offline Canyon

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Re: How old were you?
« Reply #176 on: November 16, 2012, 10:59:00 PM »
I was 10 when I started shooting a Bear Grizzly that belonged to my best friends Grandfather. Went to black powder rifles and wheelie bows through high school but returned to a Recurve in 1990. Been shooting Trad ever since.
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Offline 6feathers

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Re: How old were you?
« Reply #177 on: November 18, 2012, 04:07:00 PM »
63 years old and have been shooting trad since age 14.  There was no other way to shoot back then. Played with the compound on and off for a few years in the 80's but never really like them and found I spent most of my time with the traditonal stuff so I just stuck with the recurve and longbows.  I shoot almost daily as long as the weather permits, and prefer draw weights of 50 to 55#
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Offline Bjorn

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Re: How old were you?
« Reply #178 on: November 18, 2012, 04:16:00 PM »
Maybe 7 maybe less; don't really know for sure.   :archer2:
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Offline Paul WA

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Re: How old were you?
« Reply #179 on: November 18, 2012, 10:43:00 PM »
Not sure, maybe 10 or 11 when I shot my first real bow, 64 now...PR
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