How long have you been TRAD???

[Eric Sprick]

Doesn't really seem that long ago but it started 27 years ago with a Ben Pearson Mustang.  Still in love.
I still have that "first love" hanging on the wall.

Eric

[Russ H]

Since I was 12 (1965).

[ChrisM]

6 Great short years.

[Craig]

About 20 years. My first longbow a Leon Stewart. A very good friend took me over to Leon's shop and that started it all.

[Balding Kansan]

Proud to say all my life, well since I was old enough to pull a bow (maybe 5 or 6). I'm 25 now.

[The Whittler]

25 years or +.

[karrow]

6 years and i dont see an end in site

[bawana bowman]

52 Years, and have never owned or shot a cable gun.

[moleman]

Ive been doing the trad. thing for nearly 35 yrs,and i wouldnt trade a minute of it.All the good friends made and all the good times had in this obession have made it a wonderfull journey.  

[Caleb Andes]

This is my second year. I am completely addicted. I used to work in an archery shop where all we sold was compounds. I still have nightmares about being back there.

[Yellow Dog]

Started out for the first 6 years with Bear recurves. 17 years wheels, then back to Trad for the last 17 years.

[mt-dew10]

Wow, this is an interesting thread.  Some of these guys have shot a long time!!

I been shooting traditional gear for two years.  I actually picked up a friend's recurve at our archery lanes in early December 2009.  Although I couldn't hit diddly (and still can barely hit diddly), I had a blast. I had my own 'curve by the end of that same month and been hooked ever since.

I am absolutely loving traditional archery and will probably never resort back to a compound.  I have been jumping back and forth between 'curves and longbows.

[rkelly]

54 years

[Dave Coalter]

I got my first recurve in 1973.

[katie]

Never not been trad.  Got my first bow (54 Pearson) out of Grandma's closet around age 5.  So that makes it around 30 years.

[RAU]

8 years now with recurves and wood arrows, 12 years with compounds before that. I shot little tiny glass recurves when i was young at my great uncles farm, and at the local Y, and when i was in cub scouts but im not counting that.

[kykiller]

Bout 5 weeks, but love it so far.

[Duncan]

Got my first stick and string in 1968. It was a good year.

[non-typical]

1956 and still have that first Ben Pearson longbow.

[KellyG]

well this is really my first year, but I have shot some over the years.