#1703999 - 01/02/10 09:25 PM
Re: When did you start?
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RKenney
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Loc: Maury Co.
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blanton,
Great story. That is what it's all about!!
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#1704304 - 01/03/10 07:58 AM
Re: When did you start?
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easlo
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Registered: 09/02/09
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Loc: east Tennessee
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1974 I started deer hunting
1976 at 18 years of age I killed my first buck.
a one antlered 3 point.
No one in my family hunted at all..I got into it on my own.
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#1704347 - 01/03/10 08:36 AM
Re: When did you start?
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jaybird62
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Loc: Brentwood, TN
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It all started when my dad would take me along on rabbit hunts near Fayetteville, NC, when I was six years old. I was 12 on my first deer hunts near Albemarle, NC, in 1974. I remember it was COLD! It was after Christmas and the first hunt was in the evening in a pouring rain. The next moring the temp dropped to 5 with the wind blowing 25-30 MPH. My dad and his friend took shelter in a hay barn to try to get out of the wind and keep from freezing. They thought it wouldn't take long for me to get cold and quit. I hunkered down in a thicket and didn't move for 4 hours when they finally came and got me (so they could get warm). I didn't actually see my first deer until the next season in Sampson County, NC, down on the Black River. My dad and I hunted with a dog-hunting club and I watched my dad miss the one and only deer he ever shot at, and a few minutes later I knocked down a 6-pointer with buckshot. The dogs kept running it for miles and I never got it. My dad kept taking me to the same farm in Sampson County for the next three years until I could drive on my own. The day I got my driver's license (Dec. 18) I drove from the DMV straight home, packed my Volkswagen Super Beatle with camping gear, picked up a friend and went camping and deer hunting down on the Black River until Christmas Eve. I didn't kill my first deer until two years later five days shy of my 18th birthday. It was a mature 6-pointer that the dogs drove past me and my buddy.
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#1704503 - 01/03/10 10:21 AM
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buckhorn40
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Started in 1980, I was 13 years old.
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#1704839 - 01/03/10 01:08 PM
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Started Deer hunting in 1978 (the same year that I got married). I got my buddy started in 1979 and we hunted every year until 2007. He got cancer and died in 2008. I still hunt every year but it seems different now. I keep expecting to see him walking up a hollow...
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#1704851 - 01/03/10 01:13 PM
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Buckhunter72
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Started when I was 16 on a juvinile hunt with my brother. Got my first deer that year on 12-16-1989. A 3 pointer. 20 years ago and I remember it like it was yesterday.
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#1705109 - 01/03/10 04:24 PM
Re: When did you start?
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Allen Sullivan
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Registered: 07/31/06
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Loc: Ridgely, TN
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1972 is when I started hunting Deer
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#1705189 - 01/03/10 05:12 PM
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moondawg
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Registered: 06/19/02
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Loc: Millington, TN
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Cool thread, Double D!
I am always interested at the age hunters get started. I know most get started as kids or in their early teens. Others get started later in life, like myself or Blanton (cool story, btw!). Like he said, better late than never!
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