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<blockquote data-quote="rsimms" data-source="post: 5208350" data-attributes="member: 1534"><p>My first deer hunt was in 1966 (when I was 11 years old). At that time Tennessee didn't even allow kids to deer hunt until they had turned 16 years old. But my father (Robert "Bob" Simms) and many of his Tennessee Archery Association peers lobbied the then Game & Fish Commission to establish a special hunt just for kids. The Commission did so, setting a special two-day archery-only deer hunt for kids under 16 at Chuck Swan WMA (then called Central Peninsula WMA).</p><p></p><p>I failed to kill a deer the first two years. Then in 1968 I killed a spike buck. For ANYONE to kill a deer with a bow back then was pretty unusual. For a kid to do it was a BIG deal. I made the front page of the Chattanooga Times newspaper sports section (above the fold) - story written by now-departed outdoor journalist, Dan Cook.</p><p></p><p>My Dad was with me when I "lucked up," walking into the middle of a herd of deer bedded down in an overgrown logging road. He was also an extraordinary artist and painted a picture of the scene which hangs in my den to this day.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]116431[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rsimms, post: 5208350, member: 1534"] My first deer hunt was in 1966 (when I was 11 years old). At that time Tennessee didn't even allow kids to deer hunt until they had turned 16 years old. But my father (Robert "Bob" Simms) and many of his Tennessee Archery Association peers lobbied the then Game & Fish Commission to establish a special hunt just for kids. The Commission did so, setting a special two-day archery-only deer hunt for kids under 16 at Chuck Swan WMA (then called Central Peninsula WMA). I failed to kill a deer the first two years. Then in 1968 I killed a spike buck. For ANYONE to kill a deer with a bow back then was pretty unusual. For a kid to do it was a BIG deal. I made the front page of the Chattanooga Times newspaper sports section (above the fold) - story written by now-departed outdoor journalist, Dan Cook. My Dad was with me when I "lucked up," walking into the middle of a herd of deer bedded down in an overgrown logging road. He was also an extraordinary artist and painted a picture of the scene which hangs in my den to this day. [ATTACH type="full"]116431[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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