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Post by Mars on Sept 24, 2004 13:26:38 GMT 12.75
I started when I was about 11 years old. Our school in Pa. had an archery program and I started with that. I ended up buying one of those little 20 pound recurves and started wreacking terror on the local squirrel population. I never hit any but scared a few months off some of them.
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Post by Carter Northcutt on Sept 26, 2004 14:58:40 GMT 12.75
All I can remember is that it was in my single digit years We used old stuffed animals for targets.
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Post by Buckeye on Sept 29, 2004 4:45:36 GMT 12.75
I got my first bow and arrows when on a family vacation! I can't even remember where we were, or how old I was, but I do remember the store where my Dad bought it. It was a cheap toy, but I had a lot of fun with it. I graduated to a fiberglass recurve a few years later. I actually got pretty good with it, even shot a few frogs and other "game".
Didn't start shooting for real until I was 26 years old. My wife bought me my first bow for Christmas. I had to return it for a left handed model. Six bows and 25 years later, I still love shooting arrows.
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Post by Mars on Sept 29, 2004 6:34:48 GMT 12.75
Nothing much more relaxing then taking a pointy stick and launching it through something. I suspect those cheap fiberglass bows got many a child started on the way to a lifetime love of the "bow". I never did upgrade to a left-handed bow and still shoot a right-handed bow with my left arm. One of the reasons I shoot instictivly, couldn't use sights if I wanted too.
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Post by shiloh on Sept 29, 2004 7:26:46 GMT 12.75
I shot .22s with Church camp and Boy Souts when i was about 9-10. That was all until I got into it in 1991 after a buddy offered to take me shooting. His AK-47 hooked me! ;D
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Post by Buckeye on Sept 30, 2004 3:53:06 GMT 12.75
Went to visit my parents yesterday. My nephew (7) lives next door and he had found that old fiberglass bow in the garage. There were no arrows with it, but he fashioned some from a few apple tree suckers. I gues I have to go shopping and find some cedar arrows for him. I already promised to take him out with me during an archery hunt, But no, he couldn't shoot a deer with his bow and "sticks".
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Post by Mars on Sept 30, 2004 9:57:51 GMT 12.75
Buckeye, he could but you may be awhile tracking it down after the shot. ;D
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Post by Mars on Nov 2, 2004 13:01:08 GMT 12.75
Found a great place to shoot today. It has a 60 yard indoor 3D range. It's south of Wabash. This place has everything you could ever want for archery and gun. They have a 900 yard outdoor rifle range. You'd have to see it.
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Post by DaGriz on Nov 2, 2004 13:38:43 GMT 12.75
Oh Man does that sound great,
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Post by Mars on Nov 2, 2004 14:02:14 GMT 12.75
It gets even better! The lodge is an old retirement home. Completely handicap accessible. They even do two handicap pheasant hunts each year free to those who participate. They do put and take Quail and Pheasant hunts, 3 birds for $50. and dogs go $45. for 4 hours including the handler. The property stretches for 1 mile behind the lodge. They do State and National archery competitions on the 3D range. Gunsmith on the grounds.
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Post by Mars on Nov 3, 2004 14:25:21 GMT 12.75
Boy, I'm slow thinking. I'm going to ask this guy about having a GT at this place.
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Post by greatwhitebuffalo on Dec 5, 2004 12:36:54 GMT 12.75
I did a little shooting when I was about 15.I didn't really get involved in it until a few years ago,but I'm sure glad I did. ;D
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Post by Two Tales on Dec 22, 2004 0:16:00 GMT 12.75
Well, I got started sort of young, June 5 1960...My uncle gave me a Shakespear "Wonder Bow" 35# pull that had arrows with it...told me when I could hit anything he pointed to he would let me hunt his farm..shot my first deer with that bow on or about the first of Nov that year...it wasn't a monster by todays standards (mine) but back then this thing was huge ;D I field dressed it (what a mess) and hualed out of the woods with the tractor and hung it in the barn myself...came into the kitchen covered in blood..my aunt thought that I had been hit by a car....
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Post by OLKoot on Dec 22, 2004 5:59:18 GMT 12.75
Being city born and raised, my grandparents would take me up to the country with them where they would stay in a bungalo on a farm for the summer.....when I was about 10-11, the farmer let me shoot a .22 and I was hooked.....from then on its all history, but at 61 years old,and being disabled, I was thinking of something to do while I waited for gun season.....so I bought an old recurve which I cracked after about 8 shots at a range....my good friend gave me his old recurve , and I also purchased a used compound bow from a dealer I've known for a number of years .......and its practise when I can........so next spring I'll be out early and for the exception of just a brief summer, I may not be home at all......just bring my guns and bows into the woods and live!!!..LOL ;D
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Post by Rich on Dec 22, 2004 6:36:51 GMT 12.75
I started shooting a shotgun when I was about 9 or 10. Iver-Johnson single barrel 16 gauge. First thing I killed was a snapping turtle.
My dad took me squirrel hunting and had me sit in a creek bottom while he snuck off into the woods. He hadn't been gone long when I was sure I saw a bushy tail run up a tree. I quickly pulled the hammer back but never saw the squirrel again. It was probably only my young imagination anyway. So, now the dilemma. Could I let the hammer back down without the gun going off?
The problem was solved when I saw this old snapper stick his head up out of the water. I blasted away and the turtle sunk out of sight. Boy, did I get chastised. That was the first time, but not the last time, I heard "Before you shoot anything make sure you can retrieve it and you alway eat what you shoot. Don't you know those shotgun shells are expensive?"
Sticks and strings have taken a lot longer. I bought a fully outfitted Hoyt bow two years ago. Got some targets and have practiced a lot but still don't have any blood on those arrows. It's fun practicing though. Except for the times I miss the target and sling an arrow off into the woods. Those darned things are hard to find sometimes.
Rich
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Post by Paws on Dec 22, 2004 12:46:51 GMT 12.75
Do not remember! I had fired several 22s as I recall and my Uncle Andy's 410. Even though I went hunting with my cousins Chuck and Jim Malcolm I was unarmed until I bought my first gun at 16. Bolt action 12 ga JC Higgens! Cost me $20.00 bucks. Earned ten and conned Dad out of the other $10.00. I do remember that my first squirrel was a chipmunk! ;D
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Post by mibowhnter4life on Jun 13, 2005 13:19:05 GMT 12.75
at least it wasnt a turtle ;D i started whein i was about 6 with a cheap lil kid bow my cousin gave me. this is the one that got me started but i got real serious about it about four years ago. at this point i decided to give my overgrown bow( by about 12-15 in ;D) to my baby cousin. the cheap little thing will stay in the familt but it has brought many to the sport.
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