Getting Started....Newcomer

[CaptJack]

[BACKWOODSBOY]

payton lets get thru the holidays and i'll get back with you so we can get together and shoot. i'll get DWS to come also.

[Bill]

My advise to all new archers is to get formal instruction together with buying a 1st bow- and if you accept my suggestion, get the instruction before you decide on a bow.

If you decide which shop to buy at, ask them for the price of 5 lessons, and ask for it to be included in the price of the bow, or at least get a partial credit back when you purchase the bow.

If you took 3 lessons before, you'd be in a much better and knowledgeable position to select your bow, then 2 more lessons with your bow, building on what you learned in the initial lessons.

The archery shop owner or somebody he knows gives beginner lessons.

Welcome. Contrary to popular misconceptions, there are church going, conservative bowhunters in the Golden State.

[Bufford]

Payton,
Welcome to the fire. I shoot a 2004 Diamond Victory . Great Bow

[WoJo]

Welcome!!!!

[Payton]

Update to all:

Well we've been shooting all year off/on. Mostly on...

I ended up buying an 2008 Bowtec 82nd Airborne off ebay that was fully equipped. I took it down to Santa Fe Archery and had the guys there go thru it and tune it. It's shooting well and is quiet. I have to say I am real comfortable on this bow. It shoots pretty darn flat out to 30 yrds.

We bought a Gander Mountain "VooDoo" ground blind and took it out to a friend's property in Rock Island (just past Eagle Lake on Hwy 90 west of Sugar Land) and got into some hogs at a feeder. I drew back and MISSED! It was so dark and then looking thru my peep site I just couldn't make the shot. Stuck it in the ground about 3 yards in from of them.

We did manage to call in some coyote on our first predator hunt later that night and the boys lit one up at 75 yds.

So we are all having a blast shoot'n and getting ready for the fall season. Looks like we are headed to my Grandpa's property in Missouri after Christmas. They have been working the property pretty hard with food plots and the like. Too broke for a nice buck to mount so we'll be after does.

I need some advise though....

What treestands do you guys like and why?

[Firetamer]

Welcome to the fire.

[FattLip]

Welcome to the fire!

[stan]

Welcome. Good info above; get ready for a great experience.