How old were you?

[Jesse Minish]

3 or 4

[Trad Whitetail]

I was 3.  I have a picture of me with my little plastic longbow shooting in he back yard.  Even blunted a squirrel on the butt when I was three or four with that bow.  Of course the squirrel was fine and finished running up the tree.  I remember it like it was yesterday even though it was 31 years ago.  Good times.

[Woody303]

I was 5.....now 40 years young.

[Beav]

Around 5 years old in the mid-'60's shooting with my dad in the backyard at a haybale.

[Kc kreger]

Probably just old enough to pull back a bear longbow, toy as it was, but that was my first experience.  

Then as a teenager a fellow farm hand loaned me his recurve to shoot some carp and gar with in the river that was close to the farm.

After starting a family and getting into archery with a compound I found I was missing the fun in archery until I rediscovered it in my 40's.  Now at 45 just this season I was blessed to harvest my first white tail with a long bow!

K.C.  <><

[mtnwalker]

about the age of 30, shoot compound for awhile before that but they never excited me. oh and i'm 35 now.

[iawoody2]

My dad got me started when I was 5, that was 1951. Still shooting and going strong at 65.

[Oldskool2]

Since July, 2012... I'm a newbie to and loving it

[wildgame]

21 and Im now 28.

[BDann]

I was 35 when I started with the arrow launchers, and 38 when I started with traditional archery.  I've been addicted since 2006, and now my kids are too.

[ddauler]

I was 22 never shot a compound now I'm 50. My son is 17 he started at 2? with a little plastic bow and has been going strong every since. He shot several deer with a youth compound now recurve.

[GreyGoose]

Nine, with homemade (truly primitive) gear. For my 10th birthday received a Bear starter set.  Trad hiatus from age 18 to 51, 53 now.  Glad I got back to it!

[Cobie33]

32, now 39.  Will love it until I die, never returning back to where I came from.

[Tom Leemans]

All of the kids in our family started when we turned 5. We all couldn't wait for that birthday! That makes 45 years of arra flingin'.

[Bill Carlsen]

My dad got me a lemonwood longbow on my eight birthday. That was in 1953.

[laxbowman]

I started shooting bows my dad (Hackbow) would make for me out of rose bushes and bailing twine when i was 2.  I actually have memories of those times.  I shoot both traditional and compound now but ill always remember those thorn bush bows and arrows. pretty sure i was beatin him then too!  

[Canyon]

I was 10 when I started shooting a Bear Grizzly that belonged to my best friends Grandfather. Went to black powder rifles and wheelie bows through high school but returned to a Recurve in 1990. Been shooting Trad ever since.

[6feathers]

63 years old and have been shooting trad since age 14.  There was no other way to shoot back then. Played with the compound on and off for a few years in the 80's but never really like them and found I spent most of my time with the traditonal stuff so I just stuck with the recurve and longbows.  I shoot almost daily as long as the weather permits, and prefer draw weights of 50 to 55#

[Bjorn]

Maybe 7 maybe less; don't really know for sure.  

[Paul WA]

Not sure, maybe 10 or 11 when I shot my first real bow, 64 now...PR