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Post by bill9068 on Sept 9, 2016 12:14:40 GMT -5
How did you get started? Dad? Mom? Brother? Friend? For me my dad started me out when I was around 10-11, about 1969-1970. Dont think I saw a deer that year. How about you?
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Post by trapperdave on Sept 9, 2016 12:41:17 GMT -5
My father, his father got him started, great grandad started him, great great grandad was a professional deerhhunter that supplied meat for the railroad in northern Wisconsin and Minnesota turn of the century (1900) and all ancestors prior hunted to live. My family came to america in the 1500s or 1600s, can't remember which off hand. Thinking it was late 1500s
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Post by lawrencecountyhunter on Sept 9, 2016 12:49:25 GMT -5
Nobody in my family deer hunted. My dad coon hunted. I wanted to for several years before they turned me loose to go deer hunting on my own, age 14. It helped that I could go right behind the house to hunt.
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Post by dadfsr on Sept 9, 2016 13:07:00 GMT -5
I was the first one in my immediate family to go deer hunting. I grew up squirrel hunting the family woods with my Dad but seeing deer was a rarity when I was a kid. Seems like from early 70's to late 70's the local whitetail population just kind of exploded-about the same time we started seeing coyotes too. Took my first buck with a .50 Hawkins kit that I put together while staying in hotels at out of town landscape jobs the third year after I got out of the service. I was actually on crutches at the time from a severely sprained ankle so I drove my old Dodge as close to the best squirrel hunting area we had, sat back against a big oak and less than hour later I had a little 6 dropped 30 yards out from me. Luckily my cousin (lived a few hundred yards away) heard the shot, came over, drove my pickup right up to the deer and helped me load it. Over the next decade or so that old Hawkins took a number of deer! Man...memories!!! Still have the old smokepole but haven't fired it for probably twenty years. Wish my son Danf was on here more (living in NH he doesn't get on this site much now) because I would love to see/hear him describe his first deer  |
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Post by featherduster on Sept 9, 2016 13:07:17 GMT -5
Nobody, I just hit one with a car.
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Post by deadeer on Sept 9, 2016 13:26:06 GMT -5
Mine was our neighbor Bob. He spent time teaching me to shoot and hunt. He would take me to Tri-County and Pigeon River FWA's. I can remember stopping by old diners for biscuits and gravy after the hunt. One time he warmed up a can of chilli on the exhaust manifold of his car for lunch. That was so cool. He was a great mentor of mine in many facets of life. Very unselfish. I told him recently what he has meant to me all the years. He was stunned. It brought him (and me) to tears. Please say a prayer for Bob. He is in the final stages of a long battle with lung cancer now. God help him.
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Post by squirrelhunter on Sept 9, 2016 14:23:03 GMT -5
Actually it was the State,when they made it legal to hunt deer with a handgun.....Dad started me hunting when I was 13 back in '75,hunting rabbits,squirrel,pheasant,etc. We could hunt whatever we wanted,I just wasn't interested in deer until they made handguns legal,gave me another reason to buy another handgun  . I'd hunted squirrels with a handgun for a few years before that and was really into hunting with them,have been every since.  |
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Post by dbd870 on Sept 9, 2016 14:31:10 GMT -5
Best friend and his dad when I was a young teen.
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Post by firstwd on Sept 9, 2016 15:09:14 GMT -5
Best friend and his dad when I was a young teen. Right there with ya. My family hunted rabbits and squirrel, but dad had quit squirrel hunting when I was around 10. |
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Post by urbanguy on Sept 9, 2016 17:55:45 GMT -5
I dry fired my friends bow and he made me buy it. I didn't know anything about them and didn't know that was a big no no. Haven't pit it down since 12 years ago
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Post by kevin1 on Sept 9, 2016 18:12:20 GMT -5
My dad hunted into his teens, but gave it up before I was born. I have a couple of uncles who deer hunt, but they never offered to take me with them. I'm entirely self taught, started with small game as a kid, graduated to deer much later.
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Post by wesb81219 on Sept 9, 2016 18:20:17 GMT -5
My friend at work who is also my supervisor got me started on squirrels a few years ago. It's turned into doves and deer hunting as well. He taught me some and I've learned a lot from reading and asking questions including on here. I do my research and put in the work to hopefully harvest my first deer this year.
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Post by swetz on Sept 9, 2016 19:04:10 GMT -5
My dad. He grew up on a dairy farm in Pennsylvania. As far as I know neither my grandfather or great grandfather (who came from the old country) hunted. My dad hunted some on the farm and was pretty much out of hunting until we started going.
I killed my first deer when I was a freshman in high school (and not many since).
As I've mentioned before on the site, I kind of fell out of hunting from around 2000 to 2014. College and then moving to Indiana made it difficult to impossible. Picked it up again in 2014 when the wife and I were able to buy a place. It still makes me kind of sad to think about how much I'm able to get out there now (maybe 5-7 days a year if I'm lucky) vs. every weekend and a lot of evenings like me and my dad were able to do.
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Post by Woody Williams on Sept 9, 2016 20:15:42 GMT -5
An old grade school friend of mine.
I bumped into after not seeing him for quite awhile and he talked me into going deer hunting. I had (still own) an Remington 870 modified choke shotgun and I used the Remington Sluggers.
This was halfway through the gun season. I went maybe 4 times.. Never saw a deer.
Before the next season he said I should try bowhunting. Another friend's mom worked at Indian Archery and I bought a bow through her. It was a 45 pound Indian Mohawk, which I still have here in my den. I got it and dozen fiberglass arrows with 6 field points and six Bear Razorheads for $30..I was only making about $120 a week then so it was a big investment. I could not hit much but I still went bowhunting. I saw six deer that whole season.
I killed a young buck the next year on opening day of the gun season.. I was hooked..
Mostly self taught except I got in with a bunch that hung around Ebenezer General Baptist Church. John Trout Sr. was the patriarch of the bunch and he had ACTUALLY killed 4 deer! We hung on ever word he said. One was a pretty decent buck and Joe Celania (sp?) had him on his TV program talking about it. He killed that one back when the bow season was only during the gun season. No "special bow season" then.
The Ebenezer Gang taught each other... We learned a lot.. Most are moved on or passed on now.. I'm the only one left up there hunting deer of the "Gang". Deer hunting is still fun, but miss those good times.
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Post by trapperdave on Sept 9, 2016 22:26:45 GMT -5
Wonder how many here know who john trout is was |
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Post by medic22 on Sept 9, 2016 22:35:31 GMT -5
My dad and grandfather took me when I was 11. Hunted for a few years till my parents divorced. Killed a few deer in that time. I didnt learn much other than how to sit on the same hill and hope a deer comes by.
I got back in it in 2002 when I was in college, and was off and on for a few years. Got back in it really heavy 4 years ago on public land. Im fortunate to have a friend that has taught me a lot along the way. Before it was killing does in mature woods, because that was easy. I got into bow hunting last year because bucks are hard to hunt on public land, and I didnt know how to hunt bucks.
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Post by Jamie Brooks 1John5:13 on Sept 9, 2016 23:24:52 GMT -5
This site taught me everything I know about hunting.
I think I asked my friend Tommy Bobby at work to take me the season before I joined. We went one weekend with his two nephews. Even though none of us saw anything, I had a blast around the campfire with them. This is really what got me hooked. It was the fellowship surrounding the sport that I found exciting, interesting and inviting. I loved the stories! ...and wanted some of my own.
I really could not have imagined that I'd find acceptance and help on a site, but this one certainly provided all I needed. I haven't been hunting with Tommy since. I sprouted wings and flew away on my own.
The heart attack came before my first deer season and was a blessing providing all the time I could want for being in the great outdoors. It just takes me a little longer to get in and out of it. Actually, I can only speculate, but think I enjoy it more because of the heart attack. The overwhelming desire to be outside became evident as I recovered, and hunting was the release.
Lawrencecounty pointed out the first rub I'd ever seen. I'd never seen one on my property, and still haven't, but they stick out like a sore thumb when I see them now. What lawrencecounty did for me was really what I have lacked. For me, it sure is a lot easier when someone says do this, or that's what it looks like, or that sounds is a... I can read, albeit slowly, but nothing can replace one-on-one training. Pass it on, someday, they'll really appreciate it.
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Post by duff on Sept 10, 2016 3:44:15 GMT -5
self taught. my dad used to hunt small game not so much out of sport but to help feed his family. When he got a good job he didnt need to hunt any more.
He gave me a 16 gage single sht and a bolt action 22. i killed squirrels and rabbits like crazy from 12 to 19. Started deer hunting at 16 but didnt get my 1st deer until i was 19. Got it with a bow from the ground.
Since then I have learned from a bro in law, guys on this forum and helped out several along the way.
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Post by beermaker on Sept 10, 2016 4:37:00 GMT -5
My best friend's family. My parents did not hunt whatsoever, but supported me from day one. They both grew up on farms and had been around those that did hunt.
The first time I hunted was on opening day in 1989. I still hunt with the same people and now share an old broken down cabin with them. It isn't much, but it is a place to stay and has a roof. In fact, I am playing in a golf outing with three of them today.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2016 8:45:25 GMT -5
I started on my own. My parents bought a 32 acre farm and after a few years seeing deer I started to see if I could hunt them. It took a few years before I was successful. I moved from small game to larger game.
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. I'd hunted squirrels with a handgun for a few years before that and was really into hunting with them,have been every since. 
