Old guys, where were you summer of 69?

[doubleo]

The summer of 69 I was 13 going on 14. My neighbors and I all had are fiberglass bows. Mine was orange colored, Mike's was blue and Tim's was tan. All were 25 to 30 pounds. We would go to the local hardware store and buy wood arrows with target tips for 25 cents an arrow. Field tip arrows were 50 cents I think. They also had boxes of a dozen arrows complete with Bear razor heads. We would drool over these arrows and hoped some day we were rich enough to buy them. We took our bows and arrows that summer to the mighty Mullet river and proceeded to put a dent into the growing carp population. We did actually manage to kill a few carp. We would just walk down the river in old tennis shoes and shorts. We had a blast in the summer of 69.

[David McLendon]

I was 12, my daily routine rotated from Baseball to fishing to shooting bullfrogs with a '58 Bear Panda. My Dad fried up the frog legs cause Mom wouldn't touch them. The '58 Bear is upstairs in a Dan Quillian Archery Traditions bow sock, grandsons will give up toy bows and move on to it this year.

[blacktailbob]

Man, all these stories could make a really cool "Summer of 69 " movie.
I've really enjoyed reading ALL these stories.

[Pat B]

Graduated from military high school, stopped shaving, letting my hair grow and heading to college in South Florida. That was my renaissance year....still haven't shaved so I guess my beard is 50 this June.  Hair fell out years ago. 

[Greg Szalewski]

I was 11 years old mostly wearing out tires on my bike but also did a fair amount of roving in the adjacent fields with a yellow fiberglass bow.

[Bchunter1]

I was ten living in south Boston . Brownstones and brick buildings . We played stickball in the streets and you where out side from the get go all season . Long journey but I'm in Florida now and still a newbie to shooting my stick bow 5 years or so . Hunting last 20 years compound and gun . Dam time flys


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[Angus]

Shuttling between Nha Be, the Bassac River and sundry other unsavory places, hunting Victor Charles, but not with a bow....

[Mark R]

I was told by an old archery hippie if you remember the 60s you were'nt there.

[outbackbob48]

Angus, I left Nha Be May of 69, I was in the Sea bees and spent a lot of time in the Delta, putting stuff back togeather so ole Charlie could practice demolition and target practice. Welcome home, Bob

[imbowhunt10]

M60gunner Congratulations on your Golden Anniversary coming on the 17th. That is a blessing most couples would only dream about. 

[mcgroundstalker]

I was 13 and my brother 10... My father would take us (hunting) at first light on Sundays with our fiberglass bows... Not far from home in The Bronx, on the shore line between the Throggs Neck & Whitestone Bridges... Rabbit and pheasant were seen but never taken... Imagine That...

[kennym]

First- THANKS to all you guys who served, and I appreceiate  all you have done.

I was 12 , hauling hay (loaded by hand, remember those?) ,fishing, riding my motorcycle.

Still a couple years from buying that green all glass Bear bow for $5 at school...

[ksrog]

Got out of the army (after 3 years, 2 months and 13 days), got a hot car (AMX 2-seater w/390 Serial number 05390), fell for a beautiful girl, and took the fall off to hunt every day.  Thought that all would crowd Viet Nam out of my mind.  I didn't know then that it never goes away.  It's part of the reason I hunt only with a bow.

[Bchunter1]

I remember saying prayers for my oldest brother every night who was in Nam . When he came home we where told not to make any loud noises around him . The guys from southie lost a bunch  over there .


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[hawkeye n pa]

I'd have been shooting my first "real" bow a Browning Mohawk.  Sure killed a lot of chipmunks with it.  Sometimes I still think that was my best shooting:(

[Bud B.]

Four years old. I hadn't gotten my hands on the Bear Red Fox just yet. That happened in about 1971ish.

[wingnut]

Getting ready to leave  the farm and head off to college.  Exciting times.

Mike

[bigun]

working at Daisy BB, huntin & fishin.

[Mike Mecredy]

I turned 2

[elkken]

I turned 21 in 1969, I was drinking beer, playing pool and racing around in my 1965 Chevy II .... shot my first Mule deer with a Wing bow that fall .....