what or when did it for you - for me, it was my first 5 point bull elk. his size and his smell.seeing him move in and out of the trees getting closer and closer and then seeing my arrow go thru him at 9 steps. after that i was hooked for life. :archer: 5
For me, it was killing a gobbler and the nice buck all in the same year.
For me I just happened into an archery shop to start up again and seen a fella shooting a Saluki and fell in love with it only the Traditional way.And boy I'm glad he was there cause the wheels did nothing for me at that time!!!
The first time I had a well tuned arrow fly from my bow and hit the exact spot intended.
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The first time I had a well tuned arrow fly from my bow and hit the exact spot intended.
Yep, same here.
4 or 5 years ago I was using a borrowed Palmer on Dec 22 and a shed buck had the unfortunate luck to walk under my stand and get a wensel woodsman. Penetration was all of about 2 inches right under the spine and cut the artery. Died within 100 yards. Haven't shot anything but a recurve since.
It was the first animal I killed with a longbow. It was a Turkey at about 25 yds and the arrow arc'd to exactly where where I was looking! It was beautiful and I was hooked ever since!
I snuck up on a woodchuck when I was 11 years old and let an arrow fly from what I now know was too far away....the little fiberglass Shakespeare arc'd that arrow right into the back of his head....been a sucker for the flight of an arrow ever since....have truly missed it when life got in the way at times.
Shooting pop cans with my dad at the cottage he used to make me a back yard bow every time we were their. When i was only a lil fella. now days the pop cans are deer and elk and the bow isnt 2 lbs its 60. I will never forget those days
Shooting pop cans with my dad at the cottage he used to make me a back yard bow every time we were their. When i was only a lil fella. now days the pop cans are deer and elk and the bow isnt 2 lbs its 60. I will never forget those days
Hooked on hunting? Going out with my Dad at 8 years old, and beyond.
Hooked on Trad? Got fed up with the training wheels, found this site and ordered my Bear Griz from 3Rivers. I was had at first shot. Moved on, bow wise, but still have that bow.
When I saw how fast a stick and string could fire that arrow.
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Shooting pop cans with my dad at the cottage he used to make me a back yard bow every time we were their. When i was only a lil fella. now days the pop cans are deer and elk and the bow isnt 2 lbs its 60. I will never forget those days
X2 here..
Watching those fletchings flying at that 4 point buck back in '83.
For me it was meeting Fred Bear in 1957. We sat and just talked about hunting and archery. I have been hooked since then :archer2:
For me it was from going to the city to see Howard Hill and Kathy Duncon put on a show. This was back in the 50's. Still shooting trad except for a couple of years I was taken over by the dark side (compounds) then I got into making my own bows and was hooked again. This will have to do cause I'm too old to start over.
For me I had a co-worker that shot trad and invited me out to shoot with him. and the first time I shot an arrow I knew that this is what I've been missing all my life. the more I learn the deeper the hook. People ask me why I like it instead of rifles and I almost have a hard time explaining it to them because I just do!!
I love to watch an arrow fly!
For me it had to be when I was 7 years old. I begged my parents for a little green fiberglass Bear bow with a white handle. I shot trad bows until the early eighties then wheels for a few years, then back to trad for good. It seems that there has always been some kind of bow within easy reach my whole life. I wouldn't want it any other way! LOL
For me I got tiered of all the pressure I was putting on myself.
I allways had to have the latest greatest thing out there.
not to mention the pressure to shoot a mature deer.
In this case for me simpler is much better.
Hate to give away my inexperience but a couple of weeks ago I brought home a longbow and instantly fell for it. I cant get enough now. Cant wait for October!!
Twenty-two years ago I put a pendulum tree stand sight on my compound. To my horror, I found out I no longer had to practice any more. The joy of archery was gone. My brother-in-law came along and sold me a 67½ SK for $25 and I have been hooked ever since. God willing I can get another 22 years, but that will put me at 80.
Even when I shot a compound and I would see a picture of someone's harvest, I always looked close to see if it was a trad harvest...I didn't even know why...when I made my own trad harvest, there was simply no joy in anything else.
I can't remember the exact year but we had our 1st ever TV in our home.
One Saturday afternoon a movie came on starring Errol Flynn "Robin Hood" and I've been hooked ever since that afternoon even though at that point in time I'd never held a bow in my hand.
God bless,Mudd
For me it was chasing those cottontails around the farm and finding out none of them were safe, but got in real deep when that first arrow flew true at a mulie buck back in 76 with my old browning recurve. Seeing that buck at 15 yards and his side turn red and him toppling after going 10 yards in the foot deep snow, wow can see it still today !!
When I was 6,I was given a small fiberglass bow and some cedar arrows and was flinging them across the field and at the bullfrogs around the pond in no time.Archery just seems a part of life and it interests and fascinates me now just as much as it did then.
I was in wal-mart several years ago, and saw a copy of TBM. Picked it up, and the first thing I turned to was an advertisement for Black Widow. My first reaction was "WOW"! I continued shooting my wheeled contraption's, until my neighbor let me borrow an old Wing. After shooting that for a few weeks, it was game over for the compound. I sold it and bought my first and very own recurve. I will never go back, my love for this grows deeper every day! Plus you guy's and this site don't help any either! :D Jason
I have alway's loved traditional archery just never took the plunge, until last year while shooting the wheel bow, decieded i wanted more of a challange bought a Browning Nomad learned the basics on that bow and now im not lookin back, going traditional all the way.
When I was 5 or 6 years old my dad took me hunting with him. I watched him shoot a doe and he taught me how do blood trail her. When we found her I knew then I was hooked.
Grew up guns in hand... My Dad was a big time bird hunter. Grouse and woodcock.. everything else was a "trash duck". He deer hunted just to spend time with friends... I killed my first deer in NJ with a gun in 1959...
Somehow, two guys I went to school with started shooting bows in about 1960 or so. The first time I shot one of their bows I was hooked... I bought two bows and then, in 1969 while in college, I got a Black Super Kodiak and a Super Mag 48.
Killed my first archery deer here in Illinois that year with the SK... Like others here I shot wheels for a bit but returned to the stick and string. It was over..... My how many things have changed since those days in 1960... We started with wood arrows, then, well ya all know the rest....
For me it was my first good archery only year. I had taken one black bear years earlier. But in the fall of 1999 I took a Stone Sheep, Blacktail Deer and my first Moose, all at very close range. Since then I have rarely taken my firearms out of the safe. Poor firearms.
Hunting? As a child, hearing all of the "campfire" stories from my grandpa about his hunts and then finally getting to hunt with him.
Trad? Bit of a historical romantic. I have a small amount of indian blood in me and have always wanted to make the transition. Our trip to LBL this past December, listening to Ishoot4thrills talk passionately about his bow and past bows just stoked the fire. Ky Double Lung and I kept throwing the idea around and he bought him a long bow. Then my grandfather died. It just seemed like the right time to do it. I sold my wheel bow and sit her now waiting for my new longbow to arrive. My grandpa never too a deer with a bow. He hunted with a Remington model 760 (pump) 30-06, with open sights which I inherited from him. From this point forward I will hunt with trad gear except during gun season when I will carry that 30-06 in his honor.
1962 shooting in my grandpa's backyard with a bear red fiberglass bow,It took me until 1974 To get my first deer in IN. Been chasing whitetail ever since.
Carl