Old!!

[jreyna920]

27 here and have been hunting with bow since I was just a little squirt, killed my first deer with a bow at age 12 and it's been a everyday activity for me since. Was bored with compounds by age 18 and have been shooting a stick ever since then. I hope I'm able to enjoy this sport into my 60's..... Hell for that matter,make it there

[Mike Javi Cooper]

I'll be 63 in November and have been flinging sticks since '59, mostly recurve with a break for 7 years of compounds (2003 -2010) then nothing but longbow since...

[caughtandhobble]

I'm 47, I had a fiberglass Bear longbow as a youngster. I jumped over to a compound later in my teens and have been shooting compounds up until recently. I'm a bonafide trad junkie now and have no plans on going back to compounds.

[bob sarrels]

63 Oct 25th. Feel like I been here since the earth cooled.

[jpbruni]

Gonna be 51 next month but goin' on 35. Been bowhunting for 25 years, but shooting Trad for the last 5 months.

J.P.

[garfish]

Y'all a bunch of young whipper snappers.
I'm 72. my first bow was a green glass take down Ben Pearson longbow
that I bought from Cullum and Boren about 1954. Still got it.

I taught myself all of my bad habits about shooting a bow, then
discovered cars, girls, drag racing, rodeoing and didn't get back to
the bow until mid 80's.

Still got all those bad shooting habits, I learned them well.

Jack

[traditionalman]

I was 62 on June 5th and most the men I shoot with are in their 60's and a few in the
80's.

[Ol Man]

Started shooting a longbow back when I was about 7 years old - Used my Dad's old Stemmler longbow. I shot for several years then got a Pearson all glass recurve and hated it. Quit - then in early 70's got back into archery... shot a compound for about 1 1/2 years then switched to the longbow and have been shooting them every since.

[gatorgar]

I'm in my early 30's, or is it late 20's, but believe n the old school way of doing things. Yes sir, no ma'am and all that. Age is just a state of mind, and mine makes me an old timer, lol

[SwampGhost]

I'll be 44 on July 4th. Been primarily a bow hunter since I was 18. A good friend and mentor from Illinois got me started on Trad about 4 years ago. I finally got serious and went all trad last season. Gave my compound to my oldest son. No turning back!

[CaptJack]

I'm 60. Started shooting in 1959. Grew up in Buffalo Field Archert Club in Houston. Shot competivley until 1984. Picked up my recurves again in the late 80s

[backwoods86]

How about some pics of these old bows.

[RickBarbee]

I'll be 55 come Nov 6th.

Started shooting stickbows when I was 9, so that would be 1966.

Was taught how to shoot right, and started seriously shooting in 1984.

Shot a compound periodically on & off for one year, but never laid my stickbows down. For that year I'd shoot both when I shot. Put the compound up in the closet after a year of tinkering with it, and then gave it away a few years back.

55 ain't really old, and if my joints were in as good a shape as my looks I'd be doing darn well.

Rick

[CaptJack]

How about some pics of these old bows.

my 1st serious competition bow in 1961

[Mister Bubba's bulletman]

I'm 52... been doin' this since I was 2 1/2 (started with "BIG CHIEF" sets from Ben Franklin 5 - 10 and OTASCO stores... I went through arrows pretty regularly, lol!)

Mine came from Gibson's.