Ambassador - Don Wilson

My hunting began as a 10-year old on the family farm in Wolfe County, Kentucky. It's the same farm my father started hunting at around age 10. It's also where my two daughters started hunting at 10 years old.

I grew up gun hunting with Dad, but as I got older, my passion for hunting and my drive for challenge turned to bowhunting whitetail deer. I bought a compound, shot all summer, and set out after my first whitetail with a bow. The first day of bow season came and I found myself 20 feet up in a tree staring at a small doe at 15 yards. I drew, let the arrow fly, watched it hit its mark, and saw the arrow stick in the ground on the opposite side of the doe. I was a bowhunter from that moment forward.

Although Dad and I shared a love of the outdoors and hunting, he was not a bowhunter. I couldn't look to him for advice and had to teach myself. I grabbed anything and everything I could find on bowhunting ... books, magazines, videos ... anything. The challenge of learning how to hunt with a bow drove me like nothing ever had.

I bowhunted a fair bit with friends but eventually missed the time in the woods with my father, so I began teaching him what I had learned. We shot 3D archery shoots and soon began bowhunting together, spending many days chasing whitetail and nights afterward reliving our hunts over the fire. Dad embraced the challenge like I had, and he was a quick learner. A new chapter in our hunting story began; I had created a bowhunter.