#1700735 - 01/01/10 09:36 AM
Re: When did you start?
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I started hunting in 1970 at the age of 20. There were not a lot of deer in my area in those days and no one in my family bothered to hunt them. A college friend got me started. I saw only does that year (buck only season) but I became hooked on this great sport for life.
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#1700770 - 01/01/10 10:00 AM
Re: When did you start?
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Hatchee
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Registered: 12/16/08
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Loc: West Tennessee
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Great thing about the way I was raised is I don't remember NOT hunting.
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#1700785 - 01/01/10 10:09 AM
Re: When did you start?
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Registered: 10/14/08
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Loc: Erwin, TN
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Great thing about the way I was raised is I don't remember NOT hunting.
Ditto, me either
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#1700835 - 01/01/10 10:28 AM
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lung-buster
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Registered: 09/16/08
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Loc: Southern Middle Tn
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My dad use to put me and the dog in a sleeping bag under his treestand. I think I was around four years old and that was twenty years ago. I cant rembember not hunting. My son is three and he has been in the woods with me since last year when he was two. I never thought I would have to change a diaper in the woods but I have done it. Just glad he can go on his own now.
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#1700859 - 01/01/10 10:35 AM
Re: When did you start?
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gator-n-buck
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Registered: 10/22/08
Posts: 14908
Loc: Knox, TN / Palatka, FL
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I started hunting from the time I could walk (early 1970's) through the Everglades following my dad in waste high water (swamps). Half the time he had to carry me on his shoulders through the deep swamps... We spent a lot of long nights down there pulling them coon dogs off those trees... My dad has coon hunted all of his life and has done a little deer hunting on the side... He introduced me to hunting and I took a liking to the deer hunting part... I was really lucky to have a father that introduced me to hunting and my father is now 60 and you can still find him pulling those dogs off the tree in those ole swamps of N. FL...
P.S. I don't own a coon dog and I'm the wimp in the family that only deer hunts..
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#1700897 - 01/01/10 10:55 AM
Re: When did you start?
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Registered: 12/07/07
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Loc: TN
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Started hunting when I was 16. My father had just passed away and a couple of men he knew took me. All those guys are gone now but one. He is 77 now and we still hunt together. I remember that first hunt. We camped out for a weekend in an outfitter style tent with a stove in it. I borrowed a gun (an old 30/30 and froze to death. Never saw a deer but had a blast. I thought the "old" men were cool. They had lots of woodsman knowledge and could cook anything but gravey. I could do that so for breakfast I made the gravy for the weekend. It was a hit and I was in.
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#1700922 - 01/01/10 11:09 AM
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Bob S
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Registered: 08/19/05
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Loc: Saginaw, Michigan
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Just how long have I been hunting the great whitetail?
How long have you been hunting and what was your first hunt like?
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#1700957 - 01/01/10 11:30 AM
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jakeway
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Registered: 11/22/99
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Loc: Hendersonville, TN, USA
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I also started in 1970 at age 14. Went with my dad, my older brother, and my best friend. We camped in the woods, not knowing there was a train track 20 yards behind the tent. When the first train came through at 1 am it sounded like it was coming right into the tent!
Saw about 25 does in two days, but no antlers. Didn't kill my first deer (a button buck BTW) until 1974.
Dad's been gone about 20 years now, and I haven't seen that friend in almost as long, but I still think of that dog gone train.
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With the new year here, and started thinking about the past....Just how long have I been hunting the great whitetail?
