Are You Any Good?

BWallace10327 · May 20, 2017, 08:29:00 PM

Please participate, any and all. Just as the topic implores, would you consider yourself a good shot? In addition to voting, please post the number of years that you've been at this traditional archery business. Thanks in advance.

BAK · May 20, 2017, 08:34:00 PM

Started with a small yellow fiberglass bow when I was about 6 or 7, around 1956.

Paul/KS · May 20, 2017, 08:37:00 PM

Got my first bow around the age of 10 so 53 years, ish...

Keith Zimmerman · May 20, 2017, 08:41:00 PM

35 yrs trad.

slowbowjoe · May 20, 2017, 08:50:00 PM

I guess around 10-12 years of shooting. A 10 year gap in there somewhere. Never had much guidance at all... books early on, then learning a whole lot in the years I've been aroung this site.
All in all, I consider my shooting "OK" at this point, so I chose the good days/bad days option, which is largely how it goes (more good days than bad days, these days!)

nineworlds9 · May 20, 2017, 08:56:00 PM

A couple years in my tweens, then didn't come back to it until about 7 years ago. Been at it full time since then. Shoot almost daily.

bucknut · May 20, 2017, 09:06:00 PM

I have my days. It's about like golf! Going to 3D shoots and seeing others shoot. I would say I'm just a bit over average. Started with a Darton wheel bow in 82. Bought my first Trad bow in 95 hunted with it a few years then took a big compound hiatus. Took the old bow out about 4 years ago and killed a deer with it. Been back into it full bore ever since. Now I have a whole room full of recurves and longbows.

Sam McMichael · May 20, 2017, 09:09:00 PM

I consider myself a pretty fair shot on a good day. Less so on a bad day. I generally have more O.K. days, though. One way I describe myself is that on some days I am an archer, but on other days, I am just a clown with a bow in his hand.

I started archery in 1959 (age 10) but did not shoot seriously ubtil I was a teenager. Even then, I spent more time with the rifle than the bow. In the 1980's, I became much more serious with the bow, and by 1990, when I tried a longbow, was really into bow hunting. 22 years ago I stopped deer hunting with a rifle altogether, with the exception of taking one deer with black powder.

All of my bowhunting has been with traditional gear. When I got started, there was no such thing as a compound bow, and I never saw any reason to get one. Yes, I was greatly influenced by the adventures of Howard Hill, which may explain my attraction to Hill style longbows. Essentially, that's all I shoot now.

May 20, 2017, 09:37:00 PM

I am not afraid to say it, I work damn hard. My practice sessions go for 2 or more hours, sometimes several sessions a day. I need to be a good shot, my favored game is fast, small, and quite often not sitting around waiting for me to get off a second shot. To hit a sitting dove one needs to be a good shot. To hit a flying dove, one needs a miracle.

ksbowman · May 20, 2017, 09:48:00 PM

I'm like Pavan, I shoot everyday and work hard at it. I feel that we as hunters owe that to our quarry. I have hit the same place twice every now and then. Even took a couple apart because I needed the arrows. Been at it 45 yrs

Rough Run · May 20, 2017, 09:50:00 PM

Just over a year for me. My answer is NO, not a good shot. Some days are pretty good, some I'm all over the place. To me, that means not good. So I just keep practicing, 4-5 days a week.

grouseshooter002 · May 20, 2017, 10:24:00 PM

My dad started me shooting after I watched him shoot. I was five or six years old and that would have been in 1951 or 52. So that means that I have been shooting for many years, but you have to exclude the years for college because I was both working and going to school full time.

Regards,
Grouse

crazynate · May 20, 2017, 10:28:00 PM

j just have fun shooting my bow. I have for the past 18 years

Pine · May 20, 2017, 10:42:00 PM

I started in the summer of 1963 .
Been shootin' every sense .

jerry womble · May 20, 2017, 10:47:00 PM

Been shooting the bow for 72 of my 78 years. Don't plan on quitting
any time soon.

Trenton G. · May 20, 2017, 11:24:00 PM

I started four years ago and shoot every day for at least 20 minutes. I have my on and off days.

newhouse114 · May 20, 2017, 11:25:00 PM

I think I was eight when I got my first bow, went to the dark side when I was eighteen and didn't come back to the light until mid 40's. Been trad for about 12 years now.

Matty · May 20, 2017, 11:51:00 PM

Bout 12 years Trad only, for me. Had been shooting compound since a kid, about 25 years. I shoot pretty often. It's addictive.

Shadowhnter · May 20, 2017, 11:55:00 PM

Any good???? Lol, that's kinda subjective isnt it? If my shooting is meant for elephant, I wouldn't have to be near as tight of a shooter as pavan and his doves....but it would be good for elephants.. Compared to Hill, I stink royally! Been shooting for almost 30 years traditionally.

redfish · May 21, 2017, 12:10:00 AM

Almost 50 years since starting, minus about 20 years in the middle when I was too busy with kids and work.