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!    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!    

* I hear ya Ron...

... mike ...

I'm just a "young buck"..... 35 for me!!!!!  

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.