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Post by scrub-buster on Sept 10, 2016 9:50:20 GMT -5
My Mom and Dad taught me. I've been hutning, tracking and processing deer for as long as I remember. My mom was helping track a deer my Dad shot in gun season when she was 8 months pregnant with me.
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Post by Genesis 27:3 on Sept 10, 2016 10:26:22 GMT -5
Well a child hood friend and I had gone a couple times while we were young teens but, we weren't serious about it. My dad got me into it seriously when I was 20. He taught me a lot and was my best hunting partner.
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Post by M4Madness on Sept 10, 2016 15:05:01 GMT -5
No one in my family hunted, so I had no instruction. During my teen years, I had a friend who lived in the country and we'd shoot frogs and rabbits with a .22LR when we saw them on the farm, and had zero knowledge of game seasons or laws.
After I bought my house in the country and married, my wife's stepfather and cousins invited me to go deer hunting with them at age 27, and I killed my first deer on my first hunt -- a doe in the HNF on opening morning of the 1995 firearms season.
I am completely self-taught when it comes to deer hunting, and will readily tell you that Brownstown resident Brad Herndon's many terrain articles in "Whitetail Hunting Strategies" magazine over the years taught me everything that I didn't learn through trial and error.
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Post by squirrelgravy on Sept 10, 2016 15:16:48 GMT -5
I didn't start hunting until job relocation to Arkansas in fall of 2004. Nearly all my coworkers hunted, and had been since childhood. I spent about a year tring to learn all I could from them before trying myself. I can still close my eyes and remember that 1st buck in the scope of the borrowed 7mm, and me shaking like a leaf before I shot. Been hooked every since.
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Post by 3ptbuck on Sept 11, 2016 5:57:03 GMT -5
Growing up I had a married couple that lived next door that were diehards. Had big bucks mounted all over the house and I was always in awe of them lol. I remember going up to see deer hanging in their barn before I got on the bus when they'd call and say they got 1. They eventually moved to S. Illinois and another hunter moved in. He'd let me tag along rabbit hunting and then on my first deer hunt on the gun opener when I was 13 or so using his gun. He let me use that gun the rest of the season whenever I wanted to go. Thinking back now, I remember several times him dropping me off or picking me up at dark at places near where we lived. I was pretty fortunate to have people around that took the time to teach & take me as I only have 1 other family member that hunts.
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Post by nfalls116 on Sept 11, 2016 6:20:44 GMT -5
My dad might not have been around much but when he was it was usually hunting season and he'd take me along hunting everything. He was always pretty strict on the sound and movement and I never was a good listener but h did teach me to be patient when it came to shot selection. Never could get anyone to take me to hunters Ed so when I got my drivers license I went and got it myself. Dad took me out my first year and I got a young doe. When I was a kid we ran all over the woods and that is probably where I learned deer travel habits the most from. Plus I always had a subscription to field and stream and sometimes outdoor life as a kid dont know of anything specific it taught me but I'm sure I picked something up. Anyhow got out of deer hunting for a few years until my wife told me to get back into it.
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Post by INhuntin on Sept 11, 2016 12:07:46 GMT -5
Dad didn't hunt he liked to fish but he wasn't a hunter. So I picked it up on my own. The first time out I hit a doe but didn't recover it so I lost interest in it. About ten years ago a friend ask me if I would like to go with him hunting after 25 years passing I wasn't real sure I still knew how. But after a few outings I got back into the swing of how it is done. Now I enjoy all forms of hunting bow, muzzle loader, & many types of firearm.
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Post by iceman10 on Sept 13, 2016 4:38:43 GMT -5
My dad taught me all about gun safety & we rabbit hunted together a lot , my deer hunting started later when my best buddy talked me in to going with him . We have hunted together for 28 years now & he is still my best buddy
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Post by foamyflyer on Sept 13, 2016 13:37:34 GMT -5
Nobody I knew while growing up (70's) hunted deer. Grandad and Dad would squirrel hunt around Labor Day weekend when I was a little kid, but I was too young to go along. They stopped hunting before I was of age. Grandad's friend that had property passed away. When I was a teen, had a neighbor who was into guns big time, but didn't hunt. Started being interested in hunting myself 15-20 years ago. Learned what I could from friends, but didn't hunt myself until about 4-5 years ago after kids got older and had more disposable time and money. Basically self taught from reading (posts on Hunt-Indiana have been a big help) and from experience what I can. Now hunt deer all seasons, pheasant, grouse, woodcock, and squirrel occasionally.
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Post by jdub1 on Sept 13, 2016 14:10:21 GMT -5
Well when I was about 9 I went over to Daves house and shot a little then a little bit later I life decided to go squirrel hunting then that lead to deer hunting and I couldn't be anymore happy with the guy who taught me to hunt thanks Dave
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2016 15:04:09 GMT -5
To add a little more: I started hunting with my bb gun that I received for Christmas when I was very young (5 or so). It was the Crossman 25 pump. My neighbor paid me $1.50 for a squirrel and $2.00 for a rabbit. Better than a job. I went out every day on my own. Where I lived there was a boy's school run by the Brothers and it was 188 acres. I grew up on the property. Fishing lake, bee hives, woods to hunt, etc. I learned how to bake, build mini-bikes using steel pipes and lawn mower engines. When I was 13 I bought a 12 gauge Remington Shotgun. I still have it. Then my older brother took me out all the time crow hunting. The Brother's asked, crows eating too much corn. So I had hunting and fishing in my blood from a very young age. My parents helped by buying me a BB gun and letting me out every day, everything else on my own or with two of my older brothers. I started deer hunting in the late 70's to early 80's on my parent’s new home in Switzerland County. So the parents helped very much, but neither one that I know off ever hunted and or my grandparents.
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Post by robinsroost on Sept 13, 2016 15:32:39 GMT -5
My father started me hunting rabbits, squirrels, quail and pheasants, but he was not a deer hunter. I saw my first deer while I was squirrel hunting and was fascinated. I finally shot my first deer when I moved to Florida, with my .243.........robin
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Post by chasingtails on Sept 13, 2016 16:08:16 GMT -5
Hunters Ed in highschool.
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