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Offline bulldog18

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Re: How old were you?
« Reply #20 on: September 17, 2012, 07:03:00 PM »
I started trad when I was 48, three years ago.
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Offline gregg dudley

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Re: How old were you?
« Reply #21 on: September 17, 2012, 07:18:00 PM »
Right before my 32nd birthday...just over 10 years ago.
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Offline Huntschool

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Re: How old were you?
« Reply #22 on: September 17, 2012, 07:19:00 PM »
Started at 18 in 1965.  Went the wheel route in the mid to late 80's and then back by 89.  You can figure my age.  I am enjoying every day in the woods.....
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Offline lilbobby

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Re: How old were you?
« Reply #23 on: September 17, 2012, 07:26:00 PM »
I got started when I was 50 years old, that was 9 years ago!
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Offline Yellow Dog

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Re: How old were you?
« Reply #24 on: September 17, 2012, 07:27:00 PM »
14 the first time, no such thing as a compound back then. Went the compound route when they came out, Bear Polar II was my first one followed by a bunch more contraptions. Then eighteen years ago at 38 I went back to the stickbow.
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Offline Matthew Bolton

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Re: How old were you?
« Reply #25 on: September 17, 2012, 07:37:00 PM »
I started shooting traditional when I was 15 and I'm 18 now. Still have my compound but haven't shot it in 2 years or so.
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Offline manitou1

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Re: How old were you?
« Reply #26 on: September 17, 2012, 07:39:00 PM »
I was 11 years old.  By the age of 17, I strayed to the dark side for many years.  Came to my senses a couple of years ago... got bored with wheels. I'm 51 now.
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Offline ksbowman

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Re: How old were you?
« Reply #27 on: September 17, 2012, 07:42:00 PM »
I started at 21 and now I'm 62.
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Offline Marc B.

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Re: How old were you?
« Reply #28 on: September 17, 2012, 07:44:00 PM »
I was 6 or 7. First hunting bow was Dad's dual shelf Bear Alaskan when I was 12, that was 1979.
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Offline bolong

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Re: How old were you?
« Reply #29 on: September 17, 2012, 07:44:00 PM »
I was 8.....60 now!
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Offline ScottinPA

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Re: How old were you?
« Reply #30 on: September 17, 2012, 07:47:00 PM »
I was 4 or 5.  I'm 44 now.
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Offline Orion

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Re: How old were you?
« Reply #31 on: September 17, 2012, 07:48:00 PM »
I was six or seven.  I'm 66 now.  Like reddogge, I flirted with mechanical arrow launchers for a couple of years in the 70s.
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Offline Big Ed

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Re: How old were you?
« Reply #32 on: September 17, 2012, 07:56:00 PM »
My Mother had me shooting a old fiberglass bear recurve at the age of 5 years old. I am 40 tears old now.
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Offline longrifle

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Re: How old were you?
« Reply #33 on: September 17, 2012, 08:15:00 PM »
I bought my first custom bow a Bighorn T/D when I was 19.I remember it cost me a whopping $230. Now 43 years old I will never shoot anything but, traditional. Started bowhunting at 14 here in N.Y. with a compound,I always wanted to shoot a recurve but did not know how to shoot one properly. I killed 2 bucks with a compound, and the 20 other deer have been with trad. gear.
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Offline Archie

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Re: How old were you?
« Reply #34 on: September 17, 2012, 08:36:00 PM »
I shot a compound growing up, but I never used a release or any high-falootin' technology.  I started shooting a recurve in 2006, when I was 35 years old.   I still like my compound, I think, but for some reason it has dust all over it.  Several years' worth.
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Offline tradbowhunter11

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Re: How old were you?
« Reply #35 on: September 17, 2012, 08:39:00 PM »
I was 4. 45 Now, blessed to grow up with it. Never owned a compound and never hunted with a gun. My dad was the first paying member of the Colorado Bowhunters Assn.

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Offline BCWV

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Re: How old were you?
« Reply #36 on: September 17, 2012, 08:41:00 PM »
I shot an arrow through the window of our house Christmas morning with my new bow at age 7. I'm 51 now and still remember how scared I was on the way to the barn to tell Dad.
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Offline Hoyt

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Re: How old were you?
« Reply #37 on: September 17, 2012, 08:48:00 PM »
Started out in early 50's shooting arrows with rubber stoppers on the end. Shot recurves into the mid 70's then went to compounds till two yrs ago..and now back with recurves.
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Offline griz#1

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Re: How old were you?
« Reply #38 on: September 17, 2012, 09:02:00 PM »
Got my first bear bow at age 12
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Offline ron w

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Re: How old were you?
« Reply #39 on: September 17, 2012, 09:13:00 PM »
I think 10-11, bought my first recurve in 1967 hunted for 12-13 years, tried a coumpound , got serious with trad stuff about 1987, been there ever since.
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