I'll never forget my first compound

[MuleySniper]

So many good memories with this bow. I wish I still had it... Best bow I ever owned.
MS

[jackelope]

Sweet bows and even sweeter mullets. Them were the days.
Thanks for sharing, bud.
 

[pianoman9701]

My first was a Browning Drake Flightmaster. It had an arc like a rainbow and the arrows flew at a lightning fast 180 FPS.  It killed NH whitetails, though.

[rasbo]

first compound was a darton

[bearpaw]

My first bow was a Jennings kit bow. Somehow I managed to kill a deer and numerous grouse with it. 

[christopheri]

ROCK THE MULLET!  Cool picture man!

[doyourtime89]

My fist bow was early 80's.....Martin Cougar Magnum

[JCKILLSHOT]

That is the best picture I have ever seen lol

[pianoman9701]

OK, since we're all thinking it but the rest of you have too much class to say it, the girl in the pic is damned cute.

[et1702]

Mine was a Vintage (1979 or 1980) Darton bow.

[MuleySniper]

Ok Ok... Time to fess up. This dude with the sweet mullet, awesome vintage compound and hot mama sadly really isn't/wasn't me.  Although my first compound was fairly similar. A Jennings Lightning or something like that I will admit though it is a pretty sweet pic!
MS

[D-Rock425]

Did you guys really look like that in the 80's my dear god I'm glad I don't remember any of them.

[RadSav]

Did you guys really look like that in the 80's my dear god I'm glad I don't remember any of them.

Most of us wore shirts,  but yeah pretty much!  Though I think that hair cut was late 80's.  I've got a lot of high school buddies that don't remember them either.  Though that has more to do with what was in their pipe during those years.  I remember the hot looking girlfriend leaving me for some dude because he looked like the dreamy David Bowie.  That's a Dude?...Really?!!

70's were even cooler with the fo-silk shirts, big hair and bell bottoms.  I might even have a "Welcome Back Kotter" lunch box and a "Sweathogs" sweatshirt stored away somewhere.  To this day I can not see John Travolta without hearing "Up your nose with a rubber hose" ringing in my head.  Juan Luis Pedro Felipo de Huevos Epstein is still to this day the best screen name ever.  I still try to use the phrases "I got a note!" and "Signed, 'Epstein's Mother" regularly.

Back then Lacy/Olympia had the greatest hunting and fishing store ever put on this earth.  Herter's was located behind the landfill not far from where the Cabela's is now.  Got my first compound bow there.  Think it was called the Herter's Blacktail Hunter.  Had about a half mile of steel cable and at least a dozen wheels on it.  Rattled like a paint shaker, but it killed a lot of deer, couple bear and an elk before I loaned it to someone never to see it again.

Back then we quit fueling the rambler up with gas at the local Mobil station because they jumped the price from 32 cents to 43 cents a gallon while we were at church.  I remember my father having a talk with the station manager asking him how he expected us to afford that much for fuel and feed three growing boys!  He changed jobs where he got a company car because he did not think we could make it if he had to pay that much to get back and forth to work.

The other thing I remember from those days were the folks dropping us off at the movie theater to see "Jaws".  They gave each of us boys one dollar.  That got us into the movie, with a bag of popcorn and a soda with change left over.

Those were good days back then, weren't they?

[deerhunter_98520]

I cant remember the 80s...i was born in 82  so far my bow has been a $1200 paper weight...but it gets me out in the woods 

[throttlejocky20]

I got my first bow in the early 90's it was a Jennings Carbon Extreme. I still have the bow and it still shoots. Im thinking about settin it up with some more modern equipment and giving it to my nephew!

[Webfoot]

My first bow was a Pro Line compound bought in the early 80's.
It is still hanging on the wall where it has been for some 20 plus years.
I'm afraid to touch it for fear it will blow up.
Now days all I shoot are recurves and long bows.

John

[crnbndr]

Love it Rad Sav!!! I remember fondly the old Herter's store and always looked forward to the catalog. I think I still have my dad's Herter's dies for a 30-40 Krag.
Loved the old Yard Birds down in Chehalis too! All of the old bent up shotguns. I had an old 1980 Darton, Pendleton shirts, and a Filson coat.

[724wd]

but you never killed anything, right?  because I know from the internet that you HAVE to be shooting 350 FPS with a 2012 carbon wonder-bow, underarmour base layer, wool mid layer, polyester outer shell in Realtree MOST AWESOME camo with scent blocker!       

[RadSav]

but you never killed anything, right?  because I know from the internet that you HAVE to be shooting 350 FPS with a 2012 carbon wonder-bow, underarmour base layer, wool mid layer, polyester outer shell in Realtree MOST AWESOME camo with scent blocker!       

But we did have WASP broadheads back then so Bowhunter45 would have been ok.

[Todd_ID]

but you never killed anything, right?  because I know from the internet that you HAVE to be shooting 350 FPS with a 2012 carbon wonder-bow, underarmour base layer, wool mid layer, polyester outer shell in Realtree MOST AWESOME camo with scent blocker!       

But we did have WASP broadheads back then so Bowhunter45 would have been ok.

Yeah, but the blades all came off in flight back then too.  We just ended up killing things with a long field point.

I remember more pass-throughs with the 175 fps log-sized aluminum arrows and Bear broadheads than we ever see now, though.  That was with one of the first High Country bows that came around (can't remember the name of it now).

[BOWHUNTER45]

You guys kill me  Muley Sniper , you look good but nothen close to your partner standing beside you  My first bow was a Bear Whitetail Hunter .....My parents were not good of taking pictures back in my younger days  tHAT has bugged me for along time So now thats why I always have a camera on me to capture all the memories I can well I am still here ......anyone else have any pictures from the 80s....I may be able to find one or two .....

[STIKNSTRINGBOW]

My first bow was a Glenn StCharles "Buckskin", a round wheeled Compound made by Martin Archery in mid '80's and signed by Glenn.
I still have it, many fond memories...