View Poll Results: How long have you been bowhunting?
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2 years or less
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8.11% |
3-5 years
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21.62% |
6-10 years
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12.16% |
11-15 years
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16.22% |
16-20 years
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18.92% |
21 years or more
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22.97% |
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03-24-2008, 03:31 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Coronation
Posts: 2,529
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POLL: How many years have you been a bowhunter?
How long have you been bowhunting?
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03-24-2008, 03:41 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Posts: 581
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bought first bow in 1984 browning explorer 2 4 wheel nice wood riser still have it take it out every 2 years shoot it a few times
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03-24-2008, 07:29 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Ft. McMurray
Posts: 38,584
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Started in '66 (67?) after I watched fred Bear on the American Sportsman.
They had the 16mm segments on where he killed the elephant with one arrow, and the Admiralty Island bear.
I was sold!
Traded an Iver Johnson SXS 12 for a quiver (still have it), nocks, fletching and burning jigs, shafts, bear razor heads and other stuff, and a Bear deer slayer recurve.
I shot the first three years without a nocking point!!
Slllooowwlly got better, didn't get any lessons till later in live ( about 1983).
read a lot of books in between times however, and still shoot sticks.
Cat
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Last edited by catnthehat; 03-25-2008 at 06:35 AM.
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03-24-2008, 10:17 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Calgary
Posts: 384
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Bought my first bow in 05, and did hunt with it, but didn't get serious about it until last year. It may be a while before I pick up the rifle again.
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03-25-2008, 06:24 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 2,919
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Islander
Bought my first bow in 05, and did hunt with it, but didn't get serious about it until last year. It may be a while before I pick up the rifle again.
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03-25-2008, 07:03 AM
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Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 58
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Since 1989,I was Jealous that my brother got to hunt in September and I had to wait until Nov.
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03-25-2008, 07:25 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Coronation
Posts: 2,529
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I started in 1980 with a Browning Cobra. That bow is still in the house. Most bows that I like and shoot well I've kept for so long that they're worth nothing. Well except that one, I never did shoot it that well
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03-25-2008, 08:10 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Namaka, Ab.
Posts: 979
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Bought my first bow in 1982 at Timberline Archery in Calgary, also was a Browning wood riser, small wheel compound a whopping 35% let off. can't remember the model though. Did alot of range shooting that year and hunted that same fall. Took four years in the field before my first success a decent whitetail buck from a treestand.
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03-25-2008, 08:54 AM
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Calgary
Posts: 5,189
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Bought my first late 02 (after hunting season), 5 seasons later and 4 pope class bucks and countless does later i'm still kickin arse and takin names.
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03-25-2008, 09:03 AM
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: WMU 303
Posts: 8,493
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Started in 88....just missed the 21yrs and more category lol (started when I was 30ish). I feel like I missed out on something by not starting out when I was a kid. Haven't hunted with a rifle since I picked up the bow 20 years ago. Gonna get myself a crossbow.........to use in the rifle season lol.
I've had how many bows?...maybe 25 give or take 1. My only keepers are recurves and longbows. They keep there value where a compound bow depreciates like a used car.
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03-25-2008, 11:01 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Innisfail alberta
Posts: 7
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Im `19 now and got my first bow at 3 and have been hunting for 8 years
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03-25-2008, 01:32 PM
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Ft. Saskatchewan, AB
Posts: 498
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Been at it since 1986. Took up bowhunting after I was shot at from a roadhunter in a motorhome from about 450 yds away. I was wearing bright orange (mandatory back then). Thank goodness he missed. It was a bit un-nerving having dirt fly up from 5 ft away and then hearing the crack of the rifle shot.
Became very passionate with the bowhunting and have been very successful.
Just started playing with the rifles again in 2006.
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03-25-2008, 01:54 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Calgary
Posts: 633
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bought a used Hoyt Ultra Tec 2 years ago to see if I would enjoy it and I'm hooked. Although I still use the rifle a bit, I much prefer bowhunting. It's very addictive but I'm still waiting for my first kill of a big game. Have shot a skunk, squirrel and a grouse so I'm hoping an elk will be no prob if I can get him close enough... haha
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03-25-2008, 02:24 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: grew up in Alberta moved to SK, sure miss Alberta
Posts: 2,332
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amy ex wife bought me my first compond bow(bear blacktail hunter) for xmass of 1978
and i havent stopped bow hunting yet several mule deer a few black bears a7 moose 9 elk and 17 white tail and i lost count on how many gophers and if memory serves me rt there wuz a few coyotes and 2 lynx and numorous ruffy and spruce grouse
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03-25-2008, 04:02 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: caroline
Posts: 346
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Been hunting biggame with a bow since my 12th Birthday, so goin on 8 years now. Got my first bow when i was 2 and Dad started me out of gophers when i was 3. So all in all a total of about 17 years. Seems like alot of guys started out with the old Brownings with the wood riser. The ol man has got a Browning Super Excelerator with the wood lam riser laying around here. They are one of the nicest bows i have ever held onto. chrono'd at a whopping 218 fps! The archery business has come along way......
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