I started trad when I was 48, three years ago.

Right before my 32nd birthday...just over 10 years ago.

Started at 18 in 1965.  Went the wheel route in the mid to late 80's and then back by 89.  You can figure my age.  I am enjoying every day in the woods.....

I got started when I was 50 years old, that was 9 years ago!

14 the first time, no such thing as a compound back then. Went the compound route when they came out, Bear Polar II was my first one followed by a bunch more contraptions. Then eighteen years ago at 38 I went back to the stickbow.

I started shooting traditional when I was 15 and I'm 18 now. Still have my compound but haven't shot it in 2 years or so.

I was 11 years old.  By the age of 17, I strayed to the dark side for many years.  Came to my senses a couple of years ago... got bored with wheels. I'm 51 now.

I started at 21 and now I'm 62.

I was 6 or 7. First hunting bow was Dad's dual shelf Bear Alaskan when I was 12, that was 1979.

I was 8.....60 now!

I was 4 or 5.  I'm 44 now.

I was six or seven.  I'm 66 now.  Like reddogge, I flirted with mechanical arrow launchers for a couple of years in the 70s.

My Mother had me shooting a old fiberglass bear recurve at the age of 5 years old. I am 40 tears old now.

I bought my first custom bow a Bighorn T/D when I was 19.I remember it cost me a whopping $230. Now 43 years old I will never shoot anything but, traditional. Started bowhunting at 14 here in N.Y. with a compound,I always wanted to shoot a recurve but did not know how to shoot one properly. I killed 2 bucks with a compound, and the 20 other deer have been with trad. gear.

I shot a compound growing up, but I never used a release or any high-falootin' technology.  I started shooting a recurve in 2006, when I was 35 years old.   I still like my compound, I think, but for some reason it has dust all over it.  Several years' worth.

I was 4. 45 Now, blessed to grow up with it. Never owned a compound and never hunted with a gun. My dad was the first paying member of the Colorado Bowhunters Assn.

Tracy

I shot an arrow through the window of our house Christmas morning with my new bow at age 7. I'm 51 now and still remember how scared I was on the way to the barn to tell Dad.

Started out in early 50's shooting arrows with rubber stoppers on the end. Shot recurves into the mid 70's then went to compounds till two yrs ago..and now back with recurves.

Got my first bear bow at age 12

I think 10-11, bought my first recurve in 1967 hunted for 12-13 years, tried a coumpound , got serious with trad stuff about 1987, been there ever since.