Monty Moravec, a friend from kayaking, taught me to hunt and he was a master of it. I decided from the start that a longbow would be my weapon I have never liked compound bows, their weight or feel, and recurves seemed too fragile. Monty was a consummate, ethical, longbow hunter with legendary skills. No one could have had a better mentor and he gave me his all. I shot a longbow from the start and it's all I've ever hunted with, I have no desire to use anything else. Because of that I practice constantly, all year, to be able to use it come hunting season.

I've hunted about six seasons. The process was interrupted for three years when I hung up my bows and didn't touch them, only starting up again three years ago. I've taken animals every year, deer, bear, turkey, grouse... and focus on hunting for meat although my awareness of trophy hunting has evolved greatly in this past season. For the most part I hunt from the ground, treestands and I have a difficult relationship at best.

The human relationships that hunting has created in my life have changed my world. I am a contributing writer for Traditional Bowhunter Magazine and have written for Primitive Archer and Bugle, the magazine of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation. I'm a certified Bowhunter Safety Instructor and member of the Pope and Young Club, RMEF and the Mule Deer Foundation as well as the International Bowhunters Organization. I belong to American Rivers and Idaho Rivers United as well.

I'm a beginner, there so much I don't know. That one sentence really says it all.