Thanks Sean, a blind squirrel finds a nut every now and then(LOL). Hey Shick, I know I still owe you that bar-b-que chicken dinner, but believe me, I am good for it(LOL).

Tony

Around 1988 or 1989. Talon Longbow and Black diamond delta 4 blade broadhead.

 Tony

My Dad, Brother and myself 1979 first trip to Wyoming!

In September of 1965 I took a fall and shattered my wrist requiring a full length cast. I devised a way to shoot my bow with my foot and managed to get in a lot of hunting time hunting from the ground from brush blinds. Being low to the ground I had to clear a shooting path with a hand cycle. I didn't kill a deer that year but I had a lot of exciting close encounters.


 

Hey Tony, great pics. "Shady Side, MD"...Eastern Shore perhaps?

Aw, com'on, there's gotta be more old timers than that!!  Great pics so far guys!!

Thank you much Ghostbow. Shady Side is in southern Anne Arundel County, surrounded by water.

 Tony

Even though I had been Bowhunting since 1976, this is my first deer taken with trad equipment. I took him on Nov 4th in 1986 with a Bear Magnesium takedown bow and 2 blade satellite broadhead.

 Tony

The trouble with this old timer was I didn't take a lot of pictures back then. Cameras were awkward and bulky. The place I hunted was a military installation and no cameras allowed so no pictures for 25 years. Couldn't even have one in the car. I'd give my right arm to get a do over on this.

Great thread, awesome pictures, thanks for sharing

Oct 1986. Gray Squirrel, Bear takedown recurve and Judo Point.

Tony

What a great idea for a post.  It caused me to open up some old photo albums and spend a couple hours with my wife reminiscing.  I found a couple of photos from back in the day. I had to scan the photos as they were taken with a Polaroid.

This one was my first deer and first bow kill.  1969 at Quantico Marine Corps Base, Virginia.  I was 15 and used a 45# Shakespeare Necedah and Herters aluminum arrows tipped with a Bear Razorhead.  I still have the bow and a few of the arrows.  I was hunting with my uncle the last 2 days of the season because my dad had to work. This guy had walked under my stand the previous morning and I passed on the shot looking for something bigger.  The next evening I couldn't hold out any longer.  I was way up in a wooden stand and shot him from near vertical.  He went 25 yards and piled up with a double lung shot.  I still remember vividly when I took him to the game check station on base a couple other guys came over and started razzing me for shooting Bambi.  The game warden shut them down asking, "Where's your deer... besides when they are that small, they are harder to hit."  The little button dressed out at a whopping 32 lbs and was great eating.

You can barely see what is a tree stand hanging in the tree in our backyard.  My grandfather was a blacksmith in Kansas and my dad asked him if he could make a portable stand.  This contraption was it.  It was made of heavy angle iron and was so heavy and unwieldy that we ever took it to the woods and only used it to practice shooting from an elevated position in the backyard.




Boy, was I skinny back then!  14 years old in this picture with my Shakespeare Yukon.

Nice pics stinger. I sure wish someone had introduced me to archery and bowhunting at the age of 14 or younger, but I did not get introduced to it until I was 22 years old, and I have never looked back.


 Tony

Great pics and story's.  Many great memories here !

QuoteOriginally posted by Tony Sanders:
Nice pics stinger. I sure wish someone had introduced me to archery and bowhunting at the age of 14 or younger, but I did not get introduced to it until I was 22 years old, and I have never looked back.


 Tony

Tony, I've seen your posts and your pics and you have more than made up for not starting as a kid.  I also wish I was back in your neck of the woods for the upcoming deer season.  I miss the whitetail hunting out there.  I used to keep my boat in Galesville just down the street from where you are.  Deer hunting in SOCAL is tough.  The drought hasn't helped much. You certainly have to work harder out here just to find an animal.

Tony,Wicomico County for me, Delmar-just a spit over the Delaware line.

Hey Stinger, as they say this is a small world. You mentioned you kept your boat in Galesville, well Galesville is my hometown, and I still have family there. Thanks.

 Tony

July 1980. Woodchuck taken with a 50# Shakespere Ocala recurve, autum orange aluminum arrows and a Bear razorhead.

 Tony

You've had some pretty nice bows Tony!!

My Dad, Uncle Wayne, and Cousin Johnny in about 1970. I'm the little dork in the background. Dad is still alive, Johnny and Wayne are gone.....I still have those bows.