How old were you when you started with trad gear?

[KHALVERSON]

let see i was born in 1971
i know i was a bow freak before 1976
when i was bad and my parents took my bows away i made my own out of branches and baling twine
i took my first whitetail in 1986 with a old ben pearson recurve
then went to the dark side around 1990 and did that for about 5 years
when i was bored with that it was
back to the stick bow

[Terry Lightle]

16 and I am 55  now,WOW that seems like a long time

[Russell2]

Great stories. I'm getting really excited for hunting season. I've always wanted to hunt but never really pursued it until now. I don't even care about getting a deer, I just love being outside in the wilderness.

[Russell2]

But of course don't get me wrong, I would also love bagging my first deer.

[joel smith]

8. it was a chinaberry longbow my Dad made me. that means i've been doing this for fifty years---does that make me oficially a geezer ?

[Gray Buffalo]

I started at age 9 because my brother and I shot the windows out of grandpa's shed and our bee bee guns took on a new look.     Yes the would shoot around corners.     We talked dad into longbow by Ben Person and some arrows for rabbit hunting. The rest is history and I'll be 70 in March

 

[Huntingnut]

21 I think...I'll be 31 in a couple weeks.

[Javi]

Don't remember when I shot my first bow, I know I saved up money from hauling hay, chopping and pickin' cotton, and milking cows for the neighbors to buy my first real bow a brand new 1959 Bear Kodiak... I was nine..about to turn ten..

[Swinestalker]

I was 8 when I got a very used old recurve. Don't even know what brand that old bow was.

[SwampWarrior]

I was about 10 when I started making selfbows. A branch and dads duck decoy cord made for one heck of a day in the woods! I'm 24 almost 25 (in October) he he  and this is my first year actually taking traditional gear into the woods for deer. Been shooting a compound since 14.

[Huntschool]

Joel....  yep, your a geezer...

Shot old fiberglass bows in the mid 50's to about 61.  Left it for about 5-6 years then came back with an "I dont know what it was" bow.  Stalked and killed ground hogs and anything else I could get to stand still at home in Jersey...

In fall of 1965 left for college.  Had a Hoyt then. In 1968 got a Super Kodiak and then a Super Mag.  Had transfered to school in Illinois and started my real bow hunting efforts there.  Went over to wheels for a time but came back with a vengence when I got tired of "tweeking" the wheels all the time.

Those two Bears were gone and I regretted it.  However, I managed to get a 1969 Super Mag this summer and have been shooting it.  It should go in for a refinish next spring.  I am looking for a 1968-69 Super Kodiak.  Then the circle will be complete.

Been there ever since.... Not going back either..

[Roadkill]

I bought a bow from Ann Hoyt when I was 9. It wwas a blemished kids long bow.  1958
Shot wheels for a few but went back with a Meigs. Love it

[pauljr]

i was 18, got a 66" curly maple zipper from Bob Thompson for my high school grad. present. Im now 34. I can not remember not having a bow of some type.

[joekeith]

I had 2 older brothers and my dad bought 2 bows when we moved into a house with woods behind it. 1 bow was a 25# wooden longbow, and the other was a 45# solid fiberglass recurve. I was 5 when we moved and started shooting that wooden bow.  Took a couple of years before I could pull that big bad 45#er back.  Killed some squirells and rabbits.  Then the woods behind got sold and a subdivision built.  That was it untill I grew up and had my own family.

[BUCKY]

I was 12.I'm 52 now. I lost my mind for 2 years and shot wheels.( I was 18) Been back ever since.

[Friend]

Had made own stick bows for a couple of years prior to 1969.

Gifted my 'Little Bear' recurve in 1969 at age eleven.

Still have that Little Bear recurve.

[OkieJ]

I was 9 when I started shooting. Hunted my first bow season in 71'.  
Hunted with the recurve until 79' and went over to the other side until 93'. Got tired of that and came back to the fun side.

[sweeney3]

'Bout 26 or so.  Wish I'd got a longbow much sooner, but I probably wouldn't have appriciated it as much when I was younger.

[pdk25]

Fall of 2006. I was 38 years old.

[Zradix]

I started Trad when I was 32.
Started compound hen I was 14.
I'm 35 now.