How long have you been hunting?

[Roost 1]

After reading some other threads I am curious as to how much hunting experience some have??

35 yrs here....and I am prolly in the deer woods at least 40 days each year on both public and private land.

 

[Brisco Darlin]

about 37.

 

[doubledownranch]

15 years

 

[The ScubaCamper]

I've been hunting for about a year (went for the first time last year).
I have yet to kill my first deer, duck, goose, turkey, hog, or coyote.

 

[280longshot]

37yrs.

 

[JAY B]

8 years seriously!

 

[RUGER]

32 years for deer.

Closer to 40 counting small game.

 

[MUP]

35 yrs. Missed a stretch during my late teens, but other than that, been at it the rest of the time.

 

[barkscaler]

22 years.

 

[Bullfrog]

31 years

 

[woodsman87]

17-18 years or so. Been hunting almost my whole life. Pretty much every game animal that exist around here. Except quail, because there really aren't any more, and ducks, just never got into it.

 

[Hunter 257W]

41 years - I can remember every detail of my first real kill - a double on groundhogs in one of our alfalfa fields with a 22LR. I was as shook up and proud as any deer since has ever made me.

 

[Bayou Buck]

Deer hunting for almost 15 years but small game hunted since I got my first pellet gun as a child.

 

[DeerKiller2012]

20yrs

 

[landman]

started 43 years around, started deer hunting 40 hunted the 2nd ever LBL gun hunt, killed first deer at FTC at 15yr old

 

[MattR]

I guess this one will be my 14th deer season if my math is correct. Only started taking it serious about 3 years ago. Started deer hunting when I was 11. I have missed 3 seasons since I started hunting, one because I was in boot camp, the next because I was in Iraq, and then another because I was at a training excercise.

In the last 3 years I have learned more about deer hunting then the other 11 years combined. After my military experiences, hunting became way more than a hobby for me. I am only 24 years old and once I turned 21 it started becoming an addiction. Now it seems like every year I want to learn more than the last season. And it seems like every season that goes by I become more addicted to deer hunting.


I have hunted small game since I was probably seven years old.

 

[MUP]

I guess I should add another 4 years up to 39 if I count small game hunting.

 

[Poleaxe]

25yrs this year. Started when I was 8. Some people think I probably need a support group for my addiction little do they know the addiction is actually my medicine.

 

[TN Larry]

This will be my 23rd deer season as I started when I was 10. I have been eat up with it ever since.

 

[Andy S.]

I started squirrel and coon hunting at age 12 and deer and turkey hunting at age 16, but I'd have to say my "true hunting experience" would have started accumulating around the time I was 20. So, I've been hunting for 24 years, but only have about 16 years of true "learned" hunting experience that I can reflect on and benefit from. In other words, for the most part, I was just wondering aimlessly through the woods for the first 6-8 years trying to make heads or tails of it all, although I did manage to kill a few limits and fill a few tags.

 

[taximan]

24 Years

 

[Football Hunter]

About 33 years I guess,deer about 30

 

[Bone Collector]

21 years for deer, but did not get to serious about it, due to school, the Marine Corps, then when I got out, it took me a couple of years, but I started getting serious about it.

I've been hunting 8 years seriously (since 2004 season). Now I get in the woods once a day about 30-35 days a year.

I started shooting squirrels and stuff when I was 12, so 25 years for that stuff.

 

[Lost Lake]

37 years counting small game, 34 years for deer and other big game.

 

[infoman jr.]

20 years for deer.

 

[bowriter]

59-years

 

[BSK]

This will be my 35th deer season. My first hunt of any kind was a deer hunt opening morning of gun season in Logan County, KY, the first Saturday of November in 1979. Killed a nice 2 1/2 year-old 8-point. The buck was so unique that people came from miles around to see it.

 

[Beekeeper]

35+

 

[jgs]

27 yrs. this season.

 

[deerhunter10]

17 years