How long a hunter?

[doghouse]

I'm 62 and probably started hunting with my Dad at 4 to 5 years old. Guess that makes it about 57 to 58 years.

[Mudslinger]

Killed a few things with a rifle, but I am 99.99% BOWHUNTER. Started bowhunting in 1972 and have continued and will continue until something happens to where I cannot pull a bow back. Still shooting 70#'s. 64 years old and hopefully still going in 20 years. Still a lot of bucket list animals to kill with a bow.

[Still Hunter]

I am 57, started hunting as soon as I could throw a rock. Killed my first rabbit with a bow at 7. Killed my first deer with a bow at 13. Bear old green fiberglass recurve with bear glue on broad heads with bleeder blade inserts , a cedar arrow with feather fletching. It was spike buck, shot over his back out of the tree blind (2x4 wedged between two limbs), he came back sniffed the arrow and I shot high again the second time but I got lucky and hit his spine and dropped him. Learned not to heel my bow hand early. If the rabbit counts been bow hunting for 50 years. Fred Bear was the man!

[Pineywoods]

I'm 38 and started with a bb/pellet gun when I was 5. I started bowhunting 13 years ago.

[db@100]

60 yrs.

[Gladesgator]

I am 68, been deer hunting 58 years, killed first deer off an air boat at 10 in FL. Duck hunting 60 years.
Started bow hunting in 1967, have killed two bucks in one day with a bow several times, probably 75 or so bucks total. To many hogs to remember.

[wow]

Now I feel old. I'm 62 and don't remember when I didn't hunt.

Me too. And Im 62

[dustoffer]

Killed my first deer with buckshot in '73, and my first buck with a bow in '74 so 43 years. But, started hunting in '59 so 58 years total.

[jdg13]

I'm 26. I've been sitting in deer stands and duck blinds dang near since I could walk. Shot my first doe somewhere around 10 or 11 and my first buck around 13. Started duck hunting around that time as well. Just took up bow hunting this year and can't wait to get after them in October.

[muzzlebrake]

Got my first Daisy Red Ryder at 6 and my first shotgun at 10 when Dad gave me his 12ga pump for Christmas. I was bow hunting at 10 also with a self bow my grandpa made me. Not sure how old I was when I went on my first coon hunt but I can remember not being able to walk fast enough to keep up so my Dad had to carry me some of the time. I'm 71 now so I guess I have pretty much been a hunter all my life since I was born into it.

[Lostacresranch]

Gun hunting 50 years. Bowhunting 40. I'm 58.

[breederbuck33]

I killed my first deer when I was 8 with a rifle. First deer with a bow when I was 11, and I'm currently 26.

[White Falcon]

Gun - 59 yrs
Bow off and on 30 yrs

[kruppa24]

I'm 41
Rifle since I was 6
Bow since I was 16

[TheHammer]

I have been bow hunting since I was 11