This is my 46th archery season coming up and still feel like a teenager on his first date.lol
Any more old troopers out there.
This will be 43 years for me...Man..time sure flies.
I should mention, I actually started hunting when I was 10, shooting squirrels with my dad's .22. Family time in the woods. Actually started big game hunting at 16....
Happy 60th Birthday, Will! :) And Joe, it looks like it is your turn to hit the Six Oh next year. :)
I'm 60 but definitely not old. I still climb trees & do fun outdoor stuff all the time. Agree on the fun aspect 100%. Started bowhunting when I was 11. Stay healthy stay happy. Now if I could just remember where I left my bow?
51 years of pure enjoyment for me. Was a lot better when dad was around but now I've got my kids with me enjoying it all.
35 years for me.getting more excited every year.Kip
Being the smart arse that I am.... I'm amazed all you ol' timers know how to use a computer!
In all seriousness, thank you all for keeping the "tradition" alive, allowing me to enjoy my first year of this sport.
To all those who came before, and those still slingin arrows;
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This is year 56 for me...started when I was 11...had bow since I was 8.
My 46th season as well. Each year seems to just get better, :thumbsup: .
Killed my first deer at six with a rifle and first archery deer when I was 11, now I'll be 62 in November and still enjoy the few times a year I get to hunt..
Just turned 63 and killed my first trad deer when I was 15. Have to say I did go to the dark side, compounds, for a period. I killed my first archery animal with a traditional bow and I will kill my last the same way. I seem to enjoy it more each year and now am traditional only.
I have been bending sticks since i was three. My 45th year hunting deer. Thanks to an over aggressive bone cracker, I did not do a Canadian wilderness canoe trip with my wife this year, but I am doing a little better and will be able hunt deer with my 52 pounders.
IM 62 STILL hunting and still Cant wait for it to start . Still excited Just shot allmy new broad heads yesterday and they all flew well . Now the sharpening begins and them im ready :-)
I am 72 and been bowhunting sence I was 14. About called it quits carrying that bull elk out this year,NO I could'nt do that!
This is my 47th year of bowhuntng. :thumbsup: Started when I was 14 years old and I'm now 61. :cool:
Like fine wine, I just get better with age. :D
Its been 15 years for me, be in no time it will be 50.
Some of yall been hunting with sticks since before I was born!!! That is awsome, Congrats!!
I have a mear 20 years with a bow, ya'll are truely blessed to be in good enough health to keep on a clickin'!!
God Bless,
Nathan
Started shooting a recurve in 1967, I am 62 now. It has been fun.
This will be my 44th year pushing deer around. I just turned 65 two weeks ago, and am just as excited about opening day as I was in 1968! Luckily, my son Jay (JJB on here) is close enough to help pull them out.
Bernie Bjorklund
NC Iowa/SW Wisconsin
43 years bowhunting..for me...I'm still a "KID" at it !
This is the 43rd for me and I can still remember the first hunt like it was yesterday.
I was hunting on my uncle Kenny's farm, he thought I was nuts hunting with a bow. I missed a doe blacktail deer that day at about 12 yards shooting right over her back.
This is my 42nd season hunting deer. I worried the chipmunks a couple years before I started bowhunting deer at age 16.
Killed the first live deer I ever saw in 1970 with a Pearson Cougar and Bear Cedar arrow.
Kinda strange but season 45 for me must have been all there was to do when we were young,lol. Seriously though am now retired and loving it and finally seem to have the time to do what I want when I want to, have put more into scouting , shooting , etc than ever and really having a blast.
Been after them 55yrs. Still climbing trees so far.
I are one too!
God bless, Mudd
Year 46 for me, killed my first at 14 and other than when in service haven't missed a season yet. Just turned 60 and will go til I'm called home.
40 years for me. Killed my first deer at age 18 with a Bear Kodiak Hunter and got an 8point last week with my BW PLX. I'm after a bear right now.
56 years old and still going at it.
In 1968 I couldn't even spell bowhunter, now I are one......LOL! :biglaugh: Got a Browning Nomad with money I earned washing dishes after school. Missed a deer the next year 1969, That was the last shot I had! But Tuesday is opening day up north and maybe I can break the spell at 59 years old....wish me luck!
50+ for me, was making scrapes yesterday and fishing in the boat today. Not to shabby.
Just turned 55 and can't love this trad stuff enough! Hunting from when I was 17 and put many, many deer down (with non-bows)... Using trad gear for the past eight years and had some "almosts" but no meat yet... But this trad stuff blows up my skirt big time! :thumbsup:
* I hear ya Ron...
... mike ...
I'm just a "young buck"..... 35 for me!!!!! :bigsmyl:
31 yrs now with the bow.Not many deer growing up where I lived.I pass on more now than I take.I think you grow that way but I remember when first starting how I wanted any I could have a chance at.We have more now than I ever thought possible.
Will be my 48th year bowhunting!
will be 69 before our season opens, been shooting trad since I was 12, called it "bowhunting" even back then.
Turned 62 this year, been hunting since I was 16. So that makes this season my 46th. I've been a trad only bowhunter for the last 20 years.
I'm 57 and haven't missed an opening day since I was 14 , was shooting (mostly at) muskrats and birds before that . I seem to look forward to the fall more and more each year .
70 and been bowhunting with stick and string since I was 10 and seem to enjoy more each year.
I'll start my 41st season tomorrow up here in northern NY! I've had a bow glued to my hand from the 1st season on! Kinda feels like the eve before Christmas- only better!
lets put it this way, Howard Hill was a pup when I started bowhunting. Actually he was my hero.
57 years ago I got my first liscense and tag and went on a bowhunt on Ft Wood, Mo.
God bless you all, Steve
I am 62, been shooting a recurve since I was 13, and I can hardly wait for saturday to get here, it will be opening day for us here in Arkansas.
This will be my 48th consecutive season. I shot my broadheads today for the last time before sharpening, and then got them all hair-popping sharp. Headed up to MO soon for a couple of weeks of serious bowhunting, then taking a break before another serious week of bowhunting during the rut in November, the week before rifle season. I'll turn 63 somewhere along in there. I'm usually in a tree on my birthday.
I been doing it 49 years now. Can't wait till October 1. Just like a kid waiting on Santa Claus.
Started chasing small animals in the 50's, was a '2 season hunter' back in the 70's, and been nothing but a bowhunter since the 80's. I will be eligible for Medicare on my next birthday (if it still exists by then). Seems like it is more fun every year.
Got my first bow at age 5, been shooting ever since. 64 now with a tin hip and will be in my new "Chippewa Wedge Lock" over a secret lick for our Bullmoose archery opening Oct. 1.Can't wait!! Bob
Wow guys! This is only my 18th year with the trad bow, thanks for making me feel like a pup! :saywhat:
This thread smells of Bengay...LOL your only as old as you want to be,Keep up the hunten boys.
I'll be 71 by the time bow season(s) end here in MI. Never carried a bow in the woods until 2 years ago and now I'm thinking about all the time I wasted. In my defense, most of those years were spent as a contractor working in Germany and they don't, or at least didn't, allow bow hunting there. I just traded a beautiful Ruger No 1 single shot .257 Roberts for a new bow. Now I need to learn how to shoot my bow like I could shoot that .257 R. Of course it gets expensive when you starting putting arrows through the same hole :-(
Guess Im just a youngster compared to you old farts, this is my 38th year of bowhunting, started when I was 12, took first deer with a no name $5 yard sale find at age 15
#40 for me,loo0king forward to retiring in a few years so I can spend more time in the woods chasin em
62 yrs young been shooting trad for 52 and hope that I have another 62 or more left
57-58 years for me. Just turned 62 last month( August). I started going with my dad when I was 4-5 yr.
My dad loved to hunt and fish, and past it on to me at an early age and I still love being in the woods whether I get a deer or not.
If I see a deer that is great, but I do not have to shoot one to enjoy hunting.
46 years. Blowed out right shoulder 5 years ago and switched to lefthand. Hope it lasts the rest of the way.
I'm 60 and have been bow hunting from the mid 1970's. I am still climbing trees with a climber. I sure hope I got a few (quite a few) years left. Still love bow hunting.
I am 72 year old and do not let anyone call me a old fart!
Except my wife,I think that is what she calls me?I forget!! :)
Im 62 my dad took me and a axe to the woods when i was 10 and cut a cedar and made me a bow with axe and pocket knife thats when i started chasing animals with arrows . harvested my first deer of the season sunday morn . wish all you old farts many many more seasons .
63 here and been shooting since I was 8. I love it and always have loved seeing an arrow fly
I got my first bow 51 years ago, when I was 6.
I took a couple of breaks over the years but my interest never left. Now I hunt every chance I get...
I turn 62 in Oct. Been at it for 37 years. Still can't wait!
Got my first bow at 7 with 6 beautiful cedar arrow from Holly Martin at Mar-bow in Chadron Nebraska. Started hunting big game 37 years ago at 16. Carrying recurves and longbows the whole time. Now making my own.
been shooting bows for a long time, with the help from my uncle started when i was 6. Started bowhunting in 1969 when I got out of the Marine Corps, been going at it ever since.
This year will be special, I started building wood and canvas canoes and will be using one I built for a couple float hunts this fall. really looking forward to doing that.
Been hunting for 47 years now. First bow kill in 1969. Plan to keep doing it until to old to get out, at 63 still a young buck.
I feel better now I'm only 57,been hunting since I was old enough to follow my Dad,only been bowhunting for a few years and am always excited,can't wait for the season to open.
Man, it's so good to hear from so many who still "feel the fire" around the hunt. I'm 61 in a few weeks, been hunting deer for 37 years, small game since... Only with the bow for the last 2 years though. I can't believe how little interest I have in firearms now. I also can't believe how many guys I talk to who don't hunt anymore. Like Barry Wensel said in one of his books, I guess they weren't hunters to begin with.
On the fart topic, I seem to have reached the point where I don't trust them anymore...
49 season for me started at twenty and have not missed a season since then. Now at 69 years young still enjoy the time in the woods. I let the doe pass with fawn's, but will take a barren doe and of course a good buck. I also take a blunt in the quiver for whatever pass by and or the way back to the house to checkout the bow....
Been hunting deer with a bow since I was 10 - that was 39 years ago. Amazing all that time and not once getting tired of it. Still get the sleepless nights before opening day (and before each hunt, LOL). I guess when that stops happening it will be time to quit. At this point I can pretty much guarantee that won't happen.
I started playing with bows when I was about 16-17 years old. I'll be 70 in feb. I started out with recurves and bought a fair amount of Bears, a couple of Wings and a few other makes. When the compounds came out, I bought those. Around 1991 I bought a Robertson Stykbow. I currently have around have ten recurves and longbows, and one compound. I enjoy them all.
DaveP
I started shooting recurves with my father when I was 7, back in 1967. Bowhunting for me started at 12 (the legal age back then) in 1972. This Saturday, October 1st, marks my 39th opening day. I am probably more excited to start this season than any in recent memory because I have two young daughters (ages 11 and 7) who cannot wait to sit in a blind with Dad!
Cant say as I feel like a teenager,but at age 69,was able to get out yesterday (no deer)had a great time,will be out again later today (GOD willing) :archer2:
I'm almost 62,started bowhunting in 1964 or 65 when I was too young for my parents to let me carry a high powered rifle.There were no bowhunters in the family and actually,my dad and grandad and uncles had never hunted deer.When they were coming up,there were few to none.I guess my parents felt it was harmless for me to head into the mountains with that toy.I think a few people were shocked when I drug in the first deer.All my hunting then was from the ground and all trial and error.I didn't kill a lot of deer in those early years but had some of the most exciting hunts of my life.I still am amazed how close I got,stalking hard hunted Eastern whitetails,feeding or in their beds,often to never even get off a shot.That was the perseverance of youth because I sure didn't know much about deer.Those early years ruined me.I haven't been able to shake that fever.
Golly, I feel like a pup at only 60. Still got the fire in the belly. (must be growing as the belly has expanded). Got my first bow when I was four and was fletching arrows in dads shop by the time I was 7. Shot my first mulie when I was 11. I definitely hunt differently than I used too. I like to say smarter and slower, and it has payed off in a number of ways. And with all the seasons coming and going this one is one for the books. 5 caribou and last week a moose. Still have time to chase the grizz that I've been playing with at the cabin. Life is good and God willing it will continue for a little bit. I just need a young set of legs to hunt with, these moose are heavy.....
Golly, I feel like a pup at only 60. Still got the fire in the belly. (must be growing as the belly has expanded). Got my first bow when I was four and was fletching arrows in dads shop by the time I was 7. Shot my first mulie when I was 11. I definitely hunt differently than I used too. I like to say smarter and slower, and it has payed off in a number of ways. And with all the seasons coming and going this one is one for the books. 5 caribou and last week a moose. Still have time to chase the grizz that I've been playing with at the cabin. Life is good and God willing it will continue for a little bit. I just need a young set of legs to hunt with, these moose are heavy.....
Stupid computor!!!sorry
47th year for me.
just a pup with only 45 seasons in the rear view mirror...will be doing the same till my creator says no more.
My 43rd year in the bow. I laughed when we drove by an old general store where my mom and I used to buy our supplies and now I see it's a museum. I watch the history channel for Vietnam Era Military programs to see if I'm in one. Ain't a day goes by I don't look at some young buff studd and think how nice it would be to have that physique, then I remember how terribly stupid I was at that age and I don't feel so bad.
This will be my 47th year enjoying nature past the window of a bow. My uncle started me at nine miss him alot but he's still hunting with me every year in my heart.
Been hunting and shooting the trad bow for 46 years, started in 1965, will be 61 in Nov and hope to have many more years doing what I love, Good Lord willing.
I'll be 70 in March of 2012 and I got my first longbow at age 9. Hunted rabbits for the first ten years because there were no deer around close. Went and spent some time in uncle Sam's Navy and after words I started deer hunting. Been at it since. At this age I enjoy the process more then the kill. The need to be in the deer woods still has a grip on me.