Hi all,
I've been lurking around these boards for a while and I figured it was time I posted some kind of introduction before I just started randomly popping up in threads. Looks to be quite a tight-knit group, so it seems to be good manners.
My name is Dustin, and I hail from Dallas (or thereabouts). I'm here because I picked up archery again after moving and coming across an old recurve that was sitting in the garage. I remembered seeing it for $4 at a garage sale some ten years back, and although I was shooting compounds at the time, you can't really pass that up. I got bored rather quickly with sights, mechanical releases, stabilizers, and all that mess, so the compound collected dust and this recurve along with it. In the garage it sat, through a handful of Minnesota winters (where I was living at the time), followed by four Texas summers. I figured surely a bow that was clearly somewhat aged, and having been through all that to be unshootable, but I couldn't find anything wrong with it. I took it to a shop, and had them fit a string to it and check it out for me, and it was pronounced straight and true as the day it was made. A little direction towards the local archery club, and here I am. That was about five months ago.
For the sake of completeness, I discovered that the bow was a Herter's International Match Hunter, 62" and #45@28". Not the prettiest girl at the dance, but she gets the job done. I've since acquired a bunch more bows to try and figure out what I like, and that particular one isn't in my top 3 anymore, but I'll never part with her, since she's been with me an awful long time now, and it was the best $4 I've ever spent, since it led me to this amazing hobby that's got me on the way to not only being an archer, but a fletcher and a leatherworker as well. I've met some phenomenal people along the way, and I hope to get to know even more around here.
Thanks for being such a great group of people, and for the wealth of knowledge each and every one of you contributes to this great sport.
Topic: Hello, Tradgang (Intro) (Read 523 times)
