How many older traditional shooters here

Toklat1 · September 23, 2009, 09:09:00 PM

I'm almost there! I'll be 48 next month

joe ashton · September 23, 2009, 09:24:00 PM

Hey I'm 58 and loving it.. except the arthritic wrist and gray hair.
Spent 17 days at 10,000 feet hunting Elk deer and bears this month, alone. Got close to 3 bulls. Got a mule deer and got 15 yards from a bear.
I walk less and see more.

Joe Ashton DC

Biff · September 23, 2009, 10:26:00 PM

67 hear! Been shooting 56 yrs. Shoulder spur dropped my 3-D bow to 35 lbs. Biff

Gil Verwey · September 23, 2009, 10:30:00 PM

55 years old and shooting for 50 years. I am shooting a 62", 60# Jack Harrison El Lobo and HSS.

PASQUINELL · September 23, 2009, 10:39:00 PM

10/10/1959 will make me 50 in a couple of weeks. Going to where I grew up in New York 10/14 for my birthday and spend 10 days with my buddy trying to get one of them eastern whitetails. I shoot a Robertson 60" 51#

LAR43 · September 23, 2009, 10:43:00 PM

I think they call it vintage these days.

Just look on that big auction site at some of the bows from we were a lot younger . . .they're all "vintage".

As Mark Twain said "If I'd known I was gonna live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself!"

Been shooting stick bows 55 yrs.. Now #49 - #63 bows, but I find the mid #50 bows a lot more comfortable lately.
66 yesterday.
Larry

BowMIke · September 23, 2009, 10:44:00 PM

59 years old last June. My favorite bows are two Morrison Shawnee longbows. I have limbs for them from 47 to 57 lbs. Shot compounds for over 25 years, but after trying going back to Trad, I sold both of them and haven't missed them a lick. Trad is just so much more fun and challenge.

RunningBear · September 23, 2009, 10:48:00 PM

50 years young come this spring,started shooting a dogwood selfbow in the 60's,recurve in the 70's and got talked into one of the compound bows in the 80's.Bought a Rudderbows tri-lam english longbow about two years ago at 65#s and loved it!
I sold all my modern stuff and started making all my own bows out of red oak and cherrywood.I like my bows 55#'s to 65#'s.I've now started learning how to knapp my own arrowheads.

Ric O'Shay · September 23, 2009, 11:03:00 PM

67 by the time archery season gets into full swing. Began shooting bows with my two cousins back in 1954.
My hunting bow this year is a 58# @ 28" Wesley Special. Had to drop back in weight a few years back. Till then I was shooting an 82# @ 28" Hill bow made by Ted Kramer. Tried a compound once for about a year, then gave it away. Met Jeff Massie in 1992. Really took a liking to him and his bows. Guess I probably bought a dozen or more bows from Jeff till he decided to give bowmaking up. Went back to shooting the Hill bows early this year and have stuck with them.

Moooseran · September 24, 2009, 01:26:00 AM

I'm 71 and shooting 55#-60# recurves and long bows. Bear T/D's, Shrew's, Black Widows to name a few.................

Ralph Renfro · September 24, 2009, 07:48:00 AM

I'll turn 62 during the height of the rut here in Kansas, November 14th. But 62 ain't old....if you're a tree or dirt!!!

Archer 1 · September 24, 2009, 10:00:00 AM

I turned 67 last Feb. I've always shot
Recurves & Longbows, never owned a compound, and have been shooting them for 50 years or so.
I shoot bows in the 60# t0 65# range, and hope to keep doing it for a long time yet.

lablover · September 24, 2009, 10:31:00 AM

I'm 54 and I shoot a 56" 54# bow, dont feel any older ( or act any older according to my wife) but that guy in my mirror every morning is get'n gray.

Blackhat · September 24, 2009, 11:06:00 AM

As of August 31st, I'm 61 years young. My mind still making promises that my body tries to keep! I'm familiar with that guy in my mirror, He looks more and more like my dad every day!

Stykbowslim · September 24, 2009, 12:14:00 PM

Last Saturday I hit 55... I've been shooting traditional equipment since 1960, and have been shooting Silvertip takedowns since 1985. All my bows are in the 63-71# range.

Shoot Straight,
-Don

Eric Krewson · September 24, 2009, 01:15:00 PM

Just signed up for SSI and will be 62 Nov 7th.
Shot trad before wheelie things were invented. I switched to wheels for 15 years and never felt like I was carrying bow, started carrying a bow again 20 years ago.

loyd · September 24, 2009, 03:50:00 PM

not old just older than i was 65 started making bows 6th grade, havent grown up yet. loyd

FlyFixer · September 24, 2009, 05:00:00 PM

I am 54. Started making and shooting trad bows in 1994 after the gadget years of compounds. Nothing like hunting with something self made.

brumski · September 26, 2009, 04:38:00 PM

56yrs, and just starting out!!! living in the uk has robbed my of bowhunting (illegal), but i bought a house in bulgaria (don't ask!!) and i can bowhunt there!! so i'm practising like mad!!

brumski

Straitshot · September 26, 2009, 05:14:00 PM

Just signed up for Medicare last week. You have to do that three months before you turn 65. This coming November I turn 65. One more year to 66 and I hope to semi-retire. I guess you don't ever get to fully retire. At least some of us don't. Like some others here I began shooting archery before there were such things as compounds and like most ended up shooting them for awhile back in the late 70's and early 80's. Became disillusioned with them and went back to the purer more fun traditional aspect of archery and never regretted it.