How old were you?

[Knawbone]

About 11 yrs old, started hunting with a recurve at 18. went to wheels for awhile then started shooting a long bow 5 yrs ago and can't see myself shooting anything else- love it, every thing about it. Make and shoot     strickly wood.

[Knawbone]

Oh yea, forgot Im 53 { you dont have to be old to forget}

[Dendy Cromer]

i was 31 when i put the compound down for good. I'm 41 now..... I wish i'd made the transition so much sooner. hindsight............

[nomansland4404]

Just picked up trad about 9 months ago. 27 years old and love this new challenge. Do still shoot the compound though.

[stykbow67]

Around 10yrs old and I'm 48, there was about a 4yr stretch during Highschool that I moved to the "Darkside" but I wised up. The most modern compound I ever owned was a Bear Whitetail II.

Steve

[roundbal]

I guess I could have give some more background. It started for me as a kid when I can remember my father attempting to shoot an old Jennings compound bow and the release and string getting caught in his beard and the bow flying one way and the release the other followed by several four letter words    That was the end of his archery days.  He has tought me to be a great hunter he just is not an archer. Anyway he lost interest but I did not so he would make me bows and arrows from limbs off the tree's in our back yard and I had a blast. As I got old enough to hunt it was all guns until around the age of 15 I bought my first compound because I knew in a year I could drive myself out hunting during archery season.  I used a compound for 5-6 years hunting and competion and just got bored with it. So then I got wrapped up up in the crossbow super accuracy long range bull@#$% up until the end of this past hunting season and I told my wife I was going back to the compound because there was just no challenge using the crossbow.  Then in July I bought a cheap PSE recurve and I knew immediatly what I had been missing my whole hunting/shooting life. I guess it fits me anyway because when I do use a gun I only use flintlock or percussion muzzleloaders so as technology advances forward I am walking in reverse I guess but I love it. Something about drawing that bow and to feel it release and watch the arrow strike its mark (when I'm lucky    ) no wheels no sights. Just a natural feeling...a feeling of accomplishment and satisfaction.

[Blackjack]

just started this year,WOW,for 42 years I have been missing out.I remeber as a kid my uncles recurves hanging on the wall.Now I have come full circle and love more everyday.

[thump]

1972 on my tenth birthday  my grandfather bought me my first bow a Shakespeare  .then around 1978 he surprised me with a Bear Kodiak hunter.Thats when I started going to some 3-d shoots .Back then you were just called a bowhunter  .Next bow was a Black Widow M.B  from 1983-89. Then Traditional bow hunter magazine came out .and I ordered  my first custom bow from Jim Brackenbury ,and now that I just turned fifty I lost track of all the bows I’ve bought and sold .I guess I’ve been a Traditional bowhunter  all this time but I still just call myself a bowhunter.

[swamper]

I was 8 or 9,56 now.

[T Mowery]

Fell in Love with Traditional Archery after American Sportsman,with Curt Gowdy aired the show of Fred Bear taking the Bear on the Beach,while hiding behind the Boulder with Mr Bilderback.I believe that I was 9 at the time,58 now, but had a break in between.

[rraming]

I shot a little when I was a kid up until about 12 or so, did not shoot again until after college and used compounds. Picked up traditional in 2005, I was forty then.

[TOEJAMMER]

Let's just say I've been doing it for 67 years.

[awbowman]

49, I was a late bloomer!    

[amar911]

Started at age 5 and still shooting stick bows at 60.

Allan

[Blackstick]

It wasn't traditional back in the late 50's. I'm 60 now.

[hitman]

About 6 years old and Iam 60 now. Several years with wheelie but back to trad for good.

[JohnnyWayne]

I was about 40 years old, I'm 42 now    :eek:

Lovin every minute of it    

[Casper]

i was was 20 when i got my first recurve an now i'm 27

[Jon Stewart]

5 years old and I am now 63.

[distantbear]

I was 5 yrs. old, shooting woodchucks on the farm. Now I am 62 (%$#@&%) and still shoot 60-65# bows. Had a compound for a week, never saw the use for it.