![]() ![]() Turner quickly realized he had a natural aptitude for shooting a bow and instantly fell in love with the sport of archery. I thought, ‘I’m going to be able to do this,’” he says. The next day, he joined his buddies for some target practice. When Turner returned to the privacy of his home, he gave it a try, and much to his relief, discovered that the 64-pound bow was easy to pull. ![]() “Even though I had been a lineman on the high school football team and could bench 300 pounds, I didn’t try to pull the bow back in the store because I still believed I couldn’t. So, he saved up $300 and bought his first compound. Turner says he knew if he wanted to continue hanging out with his buddies after work, he’d need a bow. They said, ‘Look, we’re shooting our bows in the afternoons from now until bow season. Due to my experience as a kid, I had it in my head that I couldn’t pull a bow. One day, one of them asked me if I was going to bowhunt with them come fall. “In 1988, when I was 19 years old, I was spending every afternoon fishing with my buddies after work. Turner says it took some healthy peer pressure from his buddies years later to get him to pick up a bow again. I went through the motions, but convinced I just wasn’t strong enough to pull a bow, I put it down pretty quickly.” The Early Years ![]() “Like so many people, I had a bad experience being introduced to archery. “It was a 45-pound recurve and I didn’t have the strength at the time to pull it to full anchor,” Turner says. But when Turner was 10 years old, his dad bought him a bow for having good grades in school. That was long before making a name for himself as a world champion 3D tournament archer and hunting personality on popular Realtree TV shows and videos, of course. There was a time when Travis “T-Bone” Turner was afraid to pull back a bow. ![]()
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