How did you find or know of TBH and how?

[flufster]

The infamous JoeyAP and Scribner say there were good folk here and I would learn a lot and meet the best friends ever! So here I am and I have done just what they said I would!!!

Oh and Hello my name is Hooper and I am GS addict!!!

And you are a girl!!!!!

[Double L]

Internet search back in the early days of TBH can't even remember the date...around 1998 or 1999 I think. I was an old guy but a new bowhunter and was hungry for knowledge. There weren't very many people on the site back then and I was afraid to post since I was a novice and they were all experts! I mean they had actually killed stuff with their bows!!! As Legdog says now, "you get out of it what you put into it". I really wish that I had started posting back in those days instead of just lurking. Ben was just a pup, Michael didn't have any gray hair and Casey had hair....wait, scratch that last one!

One of my first posts was responding to an invite to go on a doe/spike hunt on which I killed my first deer with my bow and met and made some great friends. Then I found my first bow only lease on here, gained some experience and have been posting ever since.

[Cuatro361]

Well I went into a bar one Friday night and met a woman. After a few drinks and a promising persuasion, I ended up going back to her place...only to find out she had a TBH tattoo on the lower part of her...

nah JK...A co worker turned me to the GS and i've been an addict ever since!

[Hart8]

jduBuzz put the TBH bug in my ear.

[CastAndBlast]

I followed a long trail of BS and Lies!!


J/K....SaltwaterSlick turned me on to TBH. Thank goodness he did!

[AtTheWall]

The thread that finally pulled me out of lurk mode dealt with a TBH member named........


DOGGIEBONZ

[jpbruni]

I guess you could say I've been around a while, actually since before there was even was a TBH. A lot of the new guys may not know this, but before TBH existed, it was the TBJ, The Texas Bowhunters' Journal. It was an online eZine downloadable in .PDF format that got emailed to anyone who wanted it.

During the Summer of 1998, Michael, Rudey and I all met at a Bowsite Happy Hour in Dallas. He told me that he was going to put together a Journal of stories, articles, recipes, ranch reviews and pictures; all submitted by, and for the bowhunters of Texas! I thought it was a great idea and agreed to write the Back Page comedy article called "The Last Shot".

Michael's goal was to have it ready so everyone could print it out and take it to deer camp on opening weekend. The first issue was out in October of 1998. Dennis Mulder, Glen Lemke, Michael and I (and a recipe from my wife) contributed to the 1st one and then it just took off from there.

I know Rudey, Casey, Keith and Kevin Johnson (Outbreaker - whatever happened to him??) were all involved back then. The last issue was in May of 2000 and then the concept moved over to the web and the rest is history!

It has literally been amazing to watch how this little campfire has progressed from where it started to what it has become!

If you want to check out the humble beginnings of this site, here are 2 links; one is Michaels story of the beginning, the other is a link to all of the old journals:

http://discussions.texasbowhunter.com/forums/showthread.php?t=43823

http://discussions.texasbowhunter.com/forums/showthread.php?t=43826

J.P.

[TB80]

heard about it while reading the mathews forum.

[Swooshski]

I read something about it scribbled on a bathroom wall in Laredo.

[holepuncher]

KevinB.

[Raleigh]

was lurking on the internet and found it.
Been ****ed ever since

[BNUTZ KILLIN]

My dad JUNKMANHUNTER was talking about it one day so i looked it up.

[bowhuntertex]

I was introduced to it by Drake back in '02 I believe........

[Artos]

Kinda ironic, but I was helping a friend run his bow shop while he was busy building deer blinds when I got a call from Duck'n asking me about a gun in the classifieds here...I was in between 'real' jobs at the time, trying to get my sales rep & ffl biz going and always thought this timing was cool.

I think my very first post was in the classifieds...

I snuck into the campfire and haven't left...i don't know how people do both facebook and tbh.

[Reaper]

former co-worker

Hi Chuck (Buford)