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[Etter1]

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Alright, I might as well jump in since my buddies just did.

My description won’t be as romantic as Bunyan’s. Not because I’m not capable of such poetry, but because I met a friend earlier for a three hour sit at a watering hole and am now chasing a good night’s sleep with a famous grouse.:D

My name is Sean. I’m 29 years old and previously lived in PA and VA before ending up for most of my life here in GA. I love this state. I’ve been hunting and fishing for as long as I can remember and for fifteen years, I got to go with my birth father to Canada to chase bears, pike, and walleye. The far north holds a really special place in my heart, but I guess all wild places really do.

I got my degree from UGA in wildlife biology, but decided that I could probably hunt and fish more if I started my own company and I now own a swimming pool service and repair business in north metro atlanta. I love being self employed and I get to do most all of my work in a 6 month period and travel the rest.

I have a wonderful wife who is a high school teacher and who apparently has infinite patience because I’m probably more immature than all of her students. We don’t have any children yet, unless you count our two Walker dogs, who we treat like our own progeny.

I have owned 5 recurve bows at this point. I bought two different bows, a bear grizzly and a pse coyote, years ago and quickly gave up on trad archery both times. My good buddy Joe (Tailfeather) switched to a longbow a few years back and killed two deer and some pigs his first season and the fire burned again. I immediately went out and bought a vintage Damon Howatt and got to hunting and I’ve never looked back.

Traditional archery feels like balance to me. It is just right and nothing has ever made me feel so close to the earth as packing a daypack, grabbing my recurve and setting my lungs against a steep hill.

I have some of the best friends in the world and I live for our hunting trips. Broadhead, BuckyT, and Tailfeather get the trouble of having to share a lot of camps with me every year, and I live from calendar to calendar, awaiting the next one.

Traditional archery has also given me hope for humanity as I’m a constant cynic and am terrified when I meet the average hunter today.

At this time, I’ve never met a traditional archer I didn’t like and I feel kindred spirits with all of them. The average hunter I meet otherwise terrorizes my thoughts.

Glad to be a part of this forum.