Hey all, I just wanted to share with you what was one of my best days in along time!! My son Jesse and I went to a local 3d shoot,something that we haven't done since he was about 12! at 19 now he is starting to show more intrest in trad archery, but not in hunting yet! he did go with me when he was younger for turkeys and deer,but never showed intrest in hunting and i didn't push it!! Today was a very fun day for the both of us, and he even took the bow ,quiver,arrows,arm guard,and shooting glove home with him so he can go shoot at a local range every now and again! The bow is a self bow that linc built for me a few years back and jesse always liked it!! so all you fathers enjoy the kids and keep posting your family storys as i love to read and see these wonderful outings,brings back memorys !! heres a few pics of the day!! and mysticbow you missed a fun time bud!!
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Thats awesome, sounds like a good time! :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
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Looks like a great time,thanks for sharing.
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Very coooooooooool
Jer Bear
love the thought that the seed inside your son may be ready to sprout and grow and in the end will be a hunter.my son is 23 and i've been waiting for him to show interest in trad archery.....still waiting.....lol
I love shooting with my boys! These are days that I will never forget. My 15 year old will be going after turkey for the first time this weekend. I can't wait!
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Thanks for sharing! :clapper:
That was a real fun day dad! too bad I had to go and brake my hand now I have to wait six weeks before I can pick up the bow.
Welcome to the gang bud, six weeks is a long time when the archery bug is in your blood, I have to at least pic my bow up once a day or i start gettin the shakes!! LOL :archer: There are a lot of good people on here, spend time reading and learning from them!!
Welcome Jesse! Hope that hand heals fast.
horatio226, thats a couple of fine young boys you got there you must have alot of fun!! Good luck to your 15 year old on his first turkey hunt, will he be using a bow or other?? thank you for sharing, jim
Getting them kids involved and keeping them with it is a good thing.....,for you and them, keep at it, time passes way to fast. Next thing ya know you'll be taken your grand kids, or least lets hope so..lol...
Hey Jim,
Figures I had to work at the last minute eh. Sorry I had to missed what was undoubtedly an excellent day shooting with you and your son. My son used to go with me to every shoot we could find since he was eight years old. He is away at college now and I really miss that! I wont miss the next one bud. Work isn't everything.
JOHN
Hey john,If I had a chance to I would have too,with the ecom the way it is!! We were the only trad people there I think, we didn't keep score and just shot for fun,so we didn't post up scores!! clay had the trad stakes way to close, I don't think any of the targets were over 20 and most in the 10 to 15 yard range, we shot from different stakes each target,what ever looked like a challenge!! we will catch you a some point this summer at one of the locals and maybe i can drag linc out too!!
Same with Deerslayer's yesterday. Most targets were pretty close. After the first few targets we started shooting from where ever we wanted. None of kept score anyway. "Don't need no stinkin score cards". Just had fun.
Hi Jesse son of my buddy Jim. Sorry to hear about your hand. What a bummer.
Hey Linc. I didn't look to see that Deerslayers was having a shoot before I agreed to go to a shoot in Oriskany Falls on Sunday.
It looks like the next scheduled shoot is at F.M. Are either of you two going?
John
John, Probably not. I have lots of stuff that I need to get done.
Sorry to hear that Linc. Hopefully we'll meet up sometime this summer.
Hello all, I am sorry for bringing back a post that is over 10 years old, however I stumbled upon this post accidentally trying to get back into my old account "lttl otter" to which I could not gain access and wound up simply making a new account
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I wanted to share with you all one of my fondest memories that has been a time capsule on this forum. It has been a very rough year for the Cowles family. My father "Jimmerc" passed away December of this year. To give you all a bit of a backstory since the original post at 23 I wound up "showing interest hunting". By 24 I was addicted. I hunted along side my father every weekend of every season for the next 6 years. In fact our very last hunt together we both harvested does(another of my fondest memories) I've got a few deer under my belt, still anxiously anticipating my first deer with a bow. I have had my fathers old Monarch Raghorn for a few years and plan to ditch my training wheel bow and hunt with the longbow this year. I was actually going to put a post on here about arrows when I stumbled on this old post. I had long since forgotten there were pictures from this day. Without my father I will be leaning on you all a lot for knowledge and wisdom. :campfire:
Dad I love you, miss you, and cannot wait to hunt with you again someday.
Welcome to our campfire, Jesse!!!!! :archer: :archer: :campfire: :archer: :archer:
Sorry to hear about your Dad... :pray: I remember this thread, and I believe I met him years ago.
Looks like he started a fire!!! :archer: Hope to see more of you here!!
Jesse, welcome once again.
The best memories of my life have been hunting with my dad...he died suddenly in October 2018 while hunting. Shooting Trad bows and hunting with them have been the way I feel "closest" to him. All that to say, I know where you're coming from!
My son is almost 10 and I have the same philosophy as your dad...always encourage, but never push. I'm hoping this is a family tradition that I can pass along to him to keep alive!
Sorry for your loss Jesse. He will always be with you, sir. :thumbsup:
Thanks for your kind words guys. Slowbow I know what you mean about feeling "closer" when shooting traditional. When shooting the longbow I can memtally hear him coaching me through my shots like he would do when I was a young kid, something I do not get with the compound bow.
Wow, so sorry for your lost. Glad that you found your way back here, your Dad would be proud.