I got my first hunting license that year. It's neat to read about the Herters bow. I spent many hours with the Herters catalog on my lap. Better than the Sears Christmas catalog.

My '63 Tamerlane and '62 K Mag were in the closet at my folks house waiting for me to come home from the Navy.  Totaled my Triumph sportscar and the passenger passed on from injuries in the wreck the first week that year. Got married after my court date in July.  My wife soon learned that archery was a big deal, cause when I got out of the Navy soon after,  I traded a Winchester Varmit model rifle for a whole bunch of bows.  After almost 50 years of marriage, she understands my love for my rack of old rosewood recurves from that same time period.   

I was 18-hot motorcycles, hotter girls-thought I knew all and had the world by the tail. Next year drafted in final year and realized I didn't know **it. Did a lot of growing up in Uncle Sam's company. Just glad I made it home and able to live a boring life of working,family and grandkids. Shooting the bow has been my stress buster for a loooong time.

I was on a 1-year vacation in a hot, rainy land. Couldn't wait to get back to my family.

1969 was the year before I killed my first antlered buck, a 9 point that weighed 182 field dressed with my 54# Wing Thunderbird.

Outbackbob48, quite a lot different then, people did not respect our great servicemen so much then. Little did they care what you did for them. I sure do appreciate our great heroes Thanks to all that served.

This needs to be brought to the top again. 

Not Woodstock....but wish I was!
Jon

Quote from: Pine on April 07, 2022, 07:34:58 PM
This needs to be brought to the top again. 

I'm so glad you did... Missed it the first time

As others have done, I want to thank each and everyone of you veterans and first responders that have gone before us in a life of service & sacrifice for our country

I was born in the summer of 69 to a Father who served in Vietnam and a Mother who Loved the Lord with all her Heart, Soul, and Mind... Both have passed far too soon but I'll never forget that Freedom isn't Free. Thank you all and to Christ our Savior

Posted earlier, still remember that green SEARS fiberglas bow and the Ben Pearson, wish I still had them.   Had fun growing up in Central PA, such a care free time it was.

I was finishing my 2nd year of vet school at Ohio State.

Pulling rack radios out of 52's at Anderson in Guam

1969 I was 10 years old and got my first bow. 

WOW! Summer of '69 - haven't thought about that in a long, long time.
     I was 13, living in Michigan's UP, baling hay, trimming Christmas trees, and splitting firewood all summer until I had earned enough to buy my first real hunting bow, a Bear Archery Grizzly. If I remember correctly it was $35.00 - a fortune for me in those days.

I was 10 years old and shooting a Bear yellow fiberglass bow my folks gave me.

I was in the ninth grade. Went undefeated in Cross Country (1.5 miles) that fall. Broke the school record twice (8:26).

I was shooting a RH Ben Pearson Cougar. I hunted mostly chipmunks with it. I was still one year from seeing and shooting, with that bow, my first ever white-tail deer at age 16.

Quite a year. Got out of high school, watched the moon landing, loaded up my car left home, car broke down, bought a 69 SS 396 Chevy, got married to Lucy, bought my first bowhunting license, and a Ben Pearson 45 lb. recurve. Life moved pretty fast back then.
  Would like to thank all the vets, my draft number was 360, allot of my friends didn't make it home. I still feel kind of guilty but also thankful.

Nice to see this topic brought back. Oh...the memories !

If we could only turn the time, back the late 60s and the 70s were the best in my life . I was a junior in high school in 69 and I hunted then with a 1962 Bear Cub still have it and an Identical one I was gifted on here by a member that had it for sale or trade I asked him what he would trade  for it and he gave it to me .

I was 10 years old.
Playing baseball, a lot of swimming and sneaking onto some farmer's irrigation ponds to catch big old bluegills and bullheads.