How old were you when you started shooting traditional archery equipment? I am 28 and feel like I have been missing out for quite some time now! Anyway I have been shooting traditional for roughly 3 months and have sold all vertical and horizontal bows with training wheels!

I was around 5yrs. old when I started shooting with my Dad. I'm 66yrs. old now, but have to say that I did shoot and compete with a compound for a few years in the 1980s.

Regards,
Grouse

I was 19 when made switch to tradtional.  I am 35 now.  Years 10 - 19 I bowhunted with compounds.

I guess around seven or eight.  I have no idea why I wanted a bow since no one in the family shot a bow although they were all hunters.  I'm now 58 and enjoy the sport more with every year.

when i was 12,im 36 now and always had a trad i shot even when i shot compounds....

I was about 7 and about to turn 49 in Oct.

Maybe 10 or so can't realy remember. But always was chassing something with bows or shotgun and 22. when I was a kid. Never had a compond .

Around 5 or 6. I'm 62 now. You would think I'd be better after 56 yrs, of practice!!    
Gerald

I completly switched from wheels about at about age 28. That was 5yrs. ago and I feel more like I'm on a journey now than just hunting.


Rob

I guess when I was about 12 I got a Bear "Red Bear" archery set. Of course back than it wasn't "Traditional", it was just "archery"

My Grandmother and Grandfather my fathers parents always had bows in the house. I don't even remeber shooting a bow the first time. I was prob around 5 or 6. My Grandmother would actually coach me and my Grandfather showed me how to make arrows. They were wonderful Grandparents and I miss them very much. They were part of the greatest generation and just incredible people. I wish I could of learned from them longer.

I got my first recurve at ten years old from my neighbor. A Bear Stag Hunter #55 and it was way too much for me at that time but I always enjoyed flinging a few arrows with it at half draw or less. I shot coumpounds and hunted with them from age 12 until I was 25 or 26. That was when I bought my first custom recurve and started hunting with it. I did switch back to compounds for about two years but now I am back to shooting my longbows only.

I was 11 years old, I'm 55 now. Shot wheels for about 8 years but came to my senses in 1984. Trad ever since.

I believe I was 15 and am 56 now

I was 11 and am 68 now. I shot a compound (crude by today's standards) for about 15 years. Doesn't make me a bad person.    I've never been without at least one stickbow in the house since 1955.

Roundbal,  I understand what your saying. I switched over to trad gear 7 yrs ago when I was 27 and within 1 month I had sold or given away, all my wheels.  I wish I had started out with trad gear too, but at least we discovered the joy while we're still young enough to enjoy it.

5 or 6 and I'm 43

Thanks for asking! I started this Trad Stuff when I was 45! That's Right! Loved how it looked in pictures in magazines... Seemed to be a true stalkers way of doing it... Sold all my wheelie bows and never looked back! That was 11 years ago.

By the way... Haven't put a deer down yet but have had many, many close encounters... Kinda like the thrill without the mess.

... mike ...

I started when I was 42. I had gotten so boared with shooting a compound I actually quit hunting for about 4 years.  Trad got the fire burning again.

About 3 of age. I'm 47 now. My dad and mom would take my brothers and me to the Rocky River Metro Park in Cleveland to shoot the field course that was there. My dad had a Ben Pearson long bow of Osage, my Mom had a Pearson Jet. My brothers and I had black and white bear fiberglass bows. As kids we shot everything and anything. Glad my son is smarter than me and his uncles. He would be in jail otherwise with todays rules.  My Dad's bow broke a few years back but I still have my Mom's. Never shot a compound, never will.