What Year did You start shooting/hunting Traditional gear ?

[Widowbender]

First time 1976...then compounds ...then first widow in 99...then more compounds...then 2007 shooting and hunting with nothing but recurves and longbows since...

[Fletcher]

I can't remember not having a bow of some sort as a little kid.  Best I can figure, it was 1965 when I bought my first hunting bow, a Shakespeare Necedah, and carried it to the woods.  I still have that bow and have been at it pretty much ever since.

[Dave Lay]

hunting around 1968.. just shooting maybe late 50's or so..

[Straight Shootin']

About 1969, Bear Grizzly 40#@28, cost about $50.00 back then...

[ncsaknech1ydh]

I bought a bear 76er about the same year, I shot targets and stumps on and off while shore fishing and shooting carp with a bear hand wound spool attached until I bought my first Groves Spitfire and got serious into hunting in 1993 and for me the rest has been pleasant history! I did shoot a bear whitetail hunter compound from 1985 to 1993 until I got wise! DK.

[Jerry Jeffer]

1979 bear recurve metal rised and fiberglass limbs 35#

[Downtime]

1972 with a Ben Person 35# fiberglass bow.  1974 harvested a whitetail doe with that bow, that was in the barn yard.

[jarhead_hunter]

My archery initiation happened in 1956 when I was a young boy 8 years old.

Now at age 62, after 54+ years of archery, I am still fascinated by the sport.

It has been a fun ride.....

Charles.

[Benny Nganabbarru]

2004: A 60# Martin Hunter recurve.

[MercilessMing]

June 2009.

[Bob Miller]

1962 at Camp Lejeune, NC

[huntin_sparty]

..Uhh January 2010, at 41 years old late to the party!

[GraniteStater]

March 2010, new and challening..but rewarding and fun.

[BMN]

began my archery career with a compound in the early 80's and made the switch to traditional sometime around '92 or '93.

[Bill Turner]

1970 with my good friend and mentor, Fred Balmer. Still hunting with Bear broadheads he passed on to me when he had to give up bowhunting because of a shoulder injury. Now, a part of him travels with me whenever I head out to hunt.

[Ricker]

1968

[BigStriper]

Back in the Mid 60's I had a Orange and White Fiberglass Ben Pearson Recurve,I think it was about 20#s,a couple years later one of my Brothers bought a 45# Indian,I shot it a little but it was really to much for me so I didn't shoot it much,1978 thru the Fall of 2007 I shot Bows with Wheels,I had bought a Mid 70's Bear Grizzly Recurve in about 2006 but had not shot it until I met some Nice Older than me Fella's shooting Recurves and Longbows in the Spring of 2008 while shooting the Com----- Bow at an Archery Shop,I Fell in Love with the Longbows and Recurves and have shot 3 Deer with 4 shots since I started Shooting Traditional Bows back in 2008,I Love it and I am Hooked,

Kurt

[Kelly]

Started shooting in 1961 and first year bowhunting was 1962.

[Mack_S]

I started traditional bow 'hiking' in 2008 with a Hoyt Hunt Master.  This year I'm breaking in my new Blacktail.

-Mack

[thump]

I started in 1978 with a Bear recurve and still going strong.