#1701019 - 01/01/10 11:49 AM
Re: When did you start?
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Started when I was 12, 1981. Dad had started hunting around 1961 for a few years and then stopped. Once I turned old enough, got him back into it. I quit hunting when I joined the Army in 1989 and finally picked it back up again in 2007.
Always went hunting with with a couple of Dads friends and their kids. At times there would be 5 of us in a 8x10 tent, then we moved up to the tent and a 16' trailer but had picked up two other guys in the hunting party.
Shot my first deer that year...nice 10pt Muley after 3 of us boys opened up on a heard of Elk. Got a calf, a spike elk and the muley.
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#1701177 - 01/01/10 01:14 PM
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i killed my first deer,a mulie in 1985 and more coyotes than i can remember.wasent much of a hunter just a good shot.dumb luck that i killed the deer.lost the taste for it until my middle son got the fever in 2004.i grew up a surfer boy in southern california i was 19 when i killed my first and i became a hunter at age 37.
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#1701211 - 01/01/10 01:24 PM
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I started hunting at the age of 24 in 1989 i had went and bought all my equipment bow,muzzeloader and a rifle shot arrows the whole bow season never killed a deer then muzzeloader opened shot at 4 missed all 4 getting ready to quit and a friend talked into trying it one more day i went the next morning a big doe and 2 little ones came in tight under my stand and i dropped her in her tracks been hooked ever sense now i kill 20 + a year
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#1701266 - 01/01/10 01:41 PM
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Redwing
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Loc: Blount Co.
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Started going into the Woods with a firearm at 20, didn't get serious until I was 25. I'm 50 now and it's a disease I can't get rid of.
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#1701314 - 01/01/10 02:10 PM
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Loc: greenfield, tenn.
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Killed my first deer, in 1976, 4 point buck field dressed 124 lbs, shot with Model 1100 20 gauge slug in Dresden Tn.
Hunted deer from 1975 till the present date now. Man what a ride that I hope has many miles left.
Deer hunting to me has no competition, nothing comes close to the feeling of a buck stepping up out of the thicket, the fog, or into an open field. Then add family and friends to it, to enjoy their or my own harvests, Im sorry folks it just don't get better than that.
Life is good here in Tennessee, plenty of deer for Viper as you know him or Tony to my family and friends around here, to enjoy.
Over 30 years of chasing these awesome animals, to say I love to hunt and watch these whitetails would be an understatement, hunt hard fellas and gals, and hunt safe!
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#1701425 - 01/01/10 03:11 PM
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i had hunted squirrels and rabbits since i could carry a shotgun but didn't start deer hunting until early 80's at about 22 years of age. i went to a bonfire party one night and the host was serving venison, the first i ever had. i knew the only way to get more was to buy a rifle and shoot one. started out in the tellico/citico area and never saw a deer for the 1st 3 years. started bowhunting in 1984 and got with some guys at work that hunted in cumberland co. i finally saw my 1st deer in the woods and killed one with a bow in my 2nd season.
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#1701509 - 01/01/10 03:47 PM
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7 years I think, I can't remember, I was skunked my first three to four years. I can't remember the bad years.
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#1701533 - 01/01/10 03:54 PM
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Started around 1978. Killed my first deer when I was 14 I think.
the first thing I ever killed (not counting birds with a BB gun) was a rabbit. I was 11 I think.
It didn't kill it, and that thing screamed and cried like a baby, and I had used my last bullet to shoot it and couldn't shoot it again. I ended up hitting it with the butt of my rifle. Made me cry, and I Swore I'd never hunt again after that.
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#1701580 - 01/01/10 04:06 PM
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started out squirrel hunting when i was around 8. That was in 1974. I don't think i got to go on a deer hunt until around age 13 or 14. There were alot of years when we wouldn't even see a deer. There just weren't as many around back then. I didn't kill my first deer till 1989 or 90.
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I got invited to go along to a family friend's farm and hunt Thanksgiving weekend in 2000. I actually saw deer, but having never fired a rifled shotgun, I didn't know the range and didn't shoot. Besides, the deer moved too fast...by the time I reached for the gun, they were too far for me to shoot.
