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Tomme · 08-24-2010, 07:47 PM

I, like I think many others, took up bowhunting because it allowed me an extra 31 days in the woods. Note this was in the mid 1970s when the archery season ran the first of October through the 31st. I was working at Ft Hood and that year I fell in with a group of crazy guys from the Dallas Ft. Worth area. I hunted with them for years and somewhere along the line I gave up rifle hunting. Just wasn't as big a thrill. I guess also somewhere along the lines I discovered day leases: the Escondido, the Lincoln, the C ranch, the Truelove and the Martinina were some fo the early ones. With those you could still see game in late December, long after everything had been shot on the rifle leases in Central Texas.

I have to say that on the rewarding side, the 20 or so years of hunting with my buddy Jay Fulton (especially in S Texas) and also seeing my son Jonathan become a bowhunter. I'd also have to say that working through the years with LSBA have been some of the most rewarding (and also some of the most frustrating) experiences of my life (but on the whole I go with the rewards). Thirty-four years a bowhunter. What a great ride.

08-24-2010, 07:47 PM	#3
Tomme Region 78 Rep/Hunt Committee Chairman Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 1,504 Points: 2115.00	I, like I think many others, took up bowhunting because it allowed me an extra 31 days in the woods. Note this was in the mid 1970s when the archery season ran the first of October through the 31st. I was working at Ft Hood and that year I fell in with a group of crazy guys from the Dallas Ft. Worth area. I hunted with them for years and somewhere along the line I gave up rifle hunting. Just wasn't as big a thrill. I guess also somewhere along the lines I discovered day leases: the Escondido, the Lincoln, the C ranch, the Truelove and the Martinina were some fo the early ones. With those you could still see game in late December, long after everything had been shot on the rifle leases in Central Texas. I have to say that on the rewarding side, the 20 or so years of hunting with my buddy Jay Fulton (especially in S Texas) and also seeing my son Jonathan become a bowhunter. I'd also have to say that working through the years with LSBA have been some of the most rewarding (and also some of the most frustrating) experiences of my life (but on the whole I go with the rewards). Thirty-four years a bowhunter. What a great ride.