Thank you for allowing me to Introduce myself , I am Den Erickson . I am one of the worlds strongest Archers and hunters . I have always been interested in Archery , as a child I started at a young age as most did with toy bows, but quickly grew much stronger and larger than most kids my age ,Let alone adults my size .

    I was not over Bowed with a 70lbs bow even at 11 years old , recurve or compound . At this time of my life  I was hoisting my fathers heavy duty scaffolding and ladders from the ground to over my head in reps just to do it .  When they were set up I would use them as monkey bars 3 stories up ( without dad watching ofcourse ) Back and forth , at the age of 11, I was already at 220 lbs , and I moved like a gorilla . This type of play , as well as the regular work I did with my dad , built me into a very powerful man with a childs mentality . Not a very good combination , trust me !

I practiced Archery for 2 hours everyday , on top of Martial arts , powerlifting , and football practice  , But Archery  was always my first Love , it always came first . even at school , I would often daydream of nothing but shooting my bow, Stalking game ,( which I did as often as I could in busse woods close to where I lived) and robinhooding my arrows. Well I found out a really tough lesson , it is very expensive to be that good, arrows were hard to come by on no allowance !!!

 

 I was practicing next to an older kid one day and he asked me what kind of bow I had and how did I get so good . I handed him my bow , and he could barely hold it , It was A whitetail hunter II , left handed , I am right handed, my dad bought me a bow that fit his hand, he is left handed , I had to practice so hard everyday just to shoot it let alone robinhood my entire dozen before the day is through .

 the kid asked me how I could shoot it , his dad couldnt pull that bow , I said I just do it , I dont think about it .