{"id":36,"date":"2013-05-02T14:26:34","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T14:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrjamesbowhunter.com\/site\/?page_id=36"},"modified":"2013-05-16T14:19:37","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T14:19:37","slug":"the-early-years","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mrjamesbowhunter.com\/site\/photo-gallery\/the-early-years\/","title":{"rendered":"The Early Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"100%\">\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<div id=\"attachment_37\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mrjamesbowhunter.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37\" src=\"https:\/\/mrjamesbowhunter.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"My first whitetail was arrowed in Indiana in November 1963. The old 6-pointer had great mass and made the Pope and Young Records.\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mrjamesbowhunter.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/mrjamesbowhunter.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/1.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-37\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My first whitetail was arrowed in Indiana in November 1963. The old 6-pointer had great mass and made the Pope and Young Records.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<div id=\"attachment_38\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mrjamesbowhunter.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38\" src=\"https:\/\/mrjamesbowhunter.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/2-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"This stock-killing Utah cougar was tagged in early January 1970. He was my second P&amp;Y trophy.\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-38\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mrjamesbowhunter.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/2-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mrjamesbowhunter.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/2-624x467.jpg 624w, https:\/\/mrjamesbowhunter.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/2.jpg 711w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-38\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This stock-killing Utah cougar was tagged in early January 1970. He was my second P&#038;Y trophy.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<div id=\"attachment_39\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mrjamesbowhunter.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39\" src=\"https:\/\/mrjamesbowhunter.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/3-300x274.jpg\" alt=\"I shot my first record book bruin, a 20+ incher, in Colorado in  June of 1971. My wife and I celebrated our 11th wedding anniversary in that bear camp.\" width=\"300\" height=\"274\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-39\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mrjamesbowhunter.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/3-300x274.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mrjamesbowhunter.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/3.jpg 582w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-39\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I shot my first record book bruin, a 20+ incher, in Colorado in  June of 1971. My wife and I celebrated our 11th wedding anniversary in that bear camp.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><div id=\"attachment_149\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mrjamesbowhunter.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Mostly_MRJ_Grip_and_Grin_Pics_052.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-149\" src=\"https:\/\/mrjamesbowhunter.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Mostly_MRJ_Grip_and_Grin_Pics_052-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"I traveled to Colorado in August of 1965 to bowhunt mule deer for the first time. One arrow from my Pearson recurve at 40 yards dropped this young 3x3 buck.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mrjamesbowhunter.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Mostly_MRJ_Grip_and_Grin_Pics_052-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mrjamesbowhunter.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Mostly_MRJ_Grip_and_Grin_Pics_052-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mrjamesbowhunter.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Mostly_MRJ_Grip_and_Grin_Pics_052-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-149\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I traveled to Colorado in August of 1965 to bowhunt mule deer for the first time. One arrow from my Pearson recurve at 40 yards dropped this young 3&#215;3 buck.<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<div id=\"attachment_100\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-100\" src=\"https:\/\/mrjamesbowhunter.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Early_Years_3.jpg\" alt=\"Hunting mainly in Indiana, Colorado, and Michigan during the 1960s, I managed to tag my share of deer with my Ben Pearson and Black Widow recurve bows.\" width=\"620\" height=\"254\" class=\"size-full wp-image-100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mrjamesbowhunter.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Early_Years_3.jpg 620w, https:\/\/mrjamesbowhunter.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Early_Years_3-300x122.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-100\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hunting mainly in Indiana, Colorado, and Michigan during the 1960s, I managed to tag my share of deer with my Ben Pearson and Black Widow recurve bows.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":16,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrjamesbowhunter.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrjamesbowhunter.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrjamesbowhunter.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrjamesbowhunter.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrjamesbowhunter.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mrjamesbowhunter.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175,"href":"https:\/\/mrjamesbowhunter.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36\/revisions\/175"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrjamesbowhunter.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrjamesbowhunter.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}