#1702659 - 01/02/10 06:35 AM
Re: When did you start?
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Bottom Hunter
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Loc: Hatchie Bottoms
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1974.
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#1702668 - 01/02/10 06:55 AM
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HotshaftZ7
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Registered: 12/27/09
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Loc: Tennessee
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1988 killed my deer on the second day of my first deer hunt. I was 6 yrs old and have been sick with deer huntn ever since.
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#1702915 - 01/02/10 10:09 AM
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The Ol'Professor
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Registered: 04/16/08
Posts: 876
Loc: Mid TN
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1965. I was 13. Shot a fat doe with a .220 Swift, iron-sights and almost as long as I was tall.
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#1703493 - 01/02/10 04:54 PM
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BSK
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Registered: 03/11/99
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Loc: Nashville, TN
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I didn't come from a hunting family. I grew up in California and literally had never seen a real gun until I moved to KY in '76. I was shocked my parents let me go deer hunting for my first time in '79 when I was 17. I suspect my mother was the biggest influence as her father had been a hunter and she had hunted with him when she was little, growing up in central Wisconsin during the Depression.
The evening before my first hunt in Logan County, KY (with a brother-in-law that had grown up hunting black-tailed deer in northern California), I practiced shooting slugs from his double-barrel 16-guage. At 40 yards I couldn't even hit two square haybales stacked on top of each other. Undeterred, I went hunting the next morning wearing jeans, a blue-and-white plaid wool shirt, and a ski-vest (froze my butt off too!). My "treestand" consisted of two 2x4s nailed in the fork of a tree. About an hour and a half into the hunt a buck walks by at about 60 yards, and out of shear luck I somehow hit him through both lungs with that smoothbore, sightless 16 guage.
I've been hooked ever since.
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#1703531 - 01/02/10 05:14 PM
Re: When did you start?
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Beekeeper
Good ol' Boys "Team Buckcreek"
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Registered: 08/26/09
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Loc: McMinn Co. Tennessee
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Started deer hinting in 1974. Did not kill until 1979.
One day I just decided to start Deer hunting. There was no one to teach me what to look for so I read a lot of books. Some helped some didn't.
After I learned how to kill I killed almost every year. I am still learning how to hunt.
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#1703597 - 01/02/10 06:09 PM
Re: When did you start?
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plinker22
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Registered: 02/07/05
Posts: 8953
Loc: Mountians of East Tennessee
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I am 46 years old and did not start deer hunting until 5 years ago.
My first kill was a bow kill double at the old VAAP WMA in Chattanooga.
I was the new hunter in the group that got drawn for that bow hunt. Everyone else had killed several deer in years past, but I was the green one.
Early on the first morning, three does came walking down the trail toward my stand. I had practiced shooting my bow all summer and felt totally confident. I shot one, re-loaded and shot another. Once I got all my stuff and the two deer back to the truck, a nice fellow in a jeep (another TnDeer member BTW) stopped and gutted one for me, then I gutted the other.
The best part of the hunt was showing up for lunch with the group. They say, "Did you see anything?" I say, "Yea, I got two in the back of the truck." They just laughed. But then one of them walked over and looked in the back of the truck and the rest is history. That was so much fun and I have been hooked ever since.
I owe this website for most of what I know about deer hunting, but I also have a long way to go before I become the Tiger Woods of deer hunting. Wait, that doesn't sound right.  
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#1703694 - 01/02/10 07:17 PM
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TREERAT
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Registered: 10/13/09
Posts: 118
Loc: EAST TN
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1967 I was 5 and my dad put me in his coverals folded them over me and we were hunting Chuck Swan,Lindamood area about 9am that morning in all my excitemnt Istood up and very loudly said;look daddy theres a deer with horns:He is 83 now and his eyes and Heart cannot go to the woods,Iam 47 now and he still tells that on me every chance he gets.After all these years I love being in the woods hot,wet,cold,deer no deer I love it.Oct 5 took my 120th deer with a bow.My son hit the woods with me at 18 months did not shoot with him till he was 5 and leave the ear muffs on.HE loves it and i have leverage on him to keep up his grades.Thanks dad your boy loves you.
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#1703810 - 01/02/10 08:24 PM
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RKenney
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Registered: 03/15/08
Posts: 3633
Loc: Maury Co.
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I started in 1967 at age 15. My dad killed a good 8 pointer in
Lewis County in 1967 and my brother and I were thrilled to death
about it. He took us to the spot where he killed the buck and
showed us how it all transpired. We couldn't wait to go too, so
a few days later, my dad took us.
At about 7:30 two does came by my stand and I freaked out. I was
so excited, that I had to go tell my brother right then! As I
approached his stand, he whispers what are you doing? I hold up
two fingers and whisper back..."I saw two does"! He responded by
waving his arm at me.......to get the h.. out of here.
I guessed he wasn't as excited as I was, about seeing those two
does.
Three years later, I lilled my very first deer. It was a 6
poninter and I killed him with a Bear Grizzly recurve bow with a
48# pull.
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#1703938 - 01/02/10 09:08 PM
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blanton
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Registered: 09/25/09
Posts: 55
Loc: Athens, TN
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Started this year at age 35.... moved back home after a decade out west in school and working. I bought a piece of land with plans to build a house in the future and it was teeming with deer so I thought I'd go hunting one day so borrowed a bow and started talking to some friends who hunt about how to get started. I built a stand where I found some trails and harvested a doe on my 3rd day out, field dressed it based on what I'd been told, took it to be processed, ate some delicious chops and fell in love with the whole experience, much to my own surprise. If I've had a spare hour since that first week (my property is 2 miles from work and home), Ive been hunting or scouting. My freezer is full of healthy delicious meat, my soul is full of joy from the time spent in these beautiful Tennessee hills. Its not often that you get to experience something so completely life changing at my age... especially something that's been sitting right under your nose your whole life, but I'm certain that hunting will be part of my life from here out. Ive yet to have a day that I would trade for anything, even today in the freezing wind with nothing warm moving but my head swiveling in anticipation of what might walk out of the thick. My only regret is all the years of whitetail hunting I lost due to misconceptions and general ignorance of what it was all about. Better late than never!
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#1703967 - 01/02/10 09:16 PM
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LeatherLungz
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Registered: 12/17/08
Posts: 1654
Loc: Middle TN
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1985
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