Re: What age did you start
[Re: Wanna Be]
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10/29/20 06:14 AM
10/29/20 06:14 AM
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Posts: 29,899 williamsburg ks
danny clifton
"Grumpy Old Man"
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"Grumpy Old Man"
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 29,899
williamsburg ks
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Dad let me tag along on deer and elk hunts the first time when I was 6. I had a new single shot 22 but didn't carry it deer hunting. We did family drives a lot back then. I stayed right with my dad. Dad gave me an old bolt action 30-30 on my eleventh birthday.
Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
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Re: What age did you start
[Re: Wanna Be]
#7031166
10/29/20 07:17 AM
10/29/20 07:17 AM
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Joined: Nov 2010
Posts: 179 Wisconsin
lindner115
trapper
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trapper
Joined: Nov 2010
Posts: 179
Wisconsin
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Dad let me tag along around 6-7, shot my first at 12 because that was WI law at the time. My older boy shot his first at 8, and my youngest, 7, wants to shoot one this year, and i'll probably let him try. I have mixed emotions about it. Some of the boys friends have some super prime ground, and dad is a hunting nut, so along comes Johnny and he don't even know what end the bullet comes out of, but he can shoot a deer. My boys know hunter safety, gun safety, trapping, survival skills and when their goof ball friend gets a deer and they don't, it makes them feel inferior to some dingbat kid that can pull a trigger. And lately our deer ground isn't producing like it used to so we have to work our (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman)es of to get a shot, and with little kids there are a lot of varibles to overcome, and I dont mean getting cold and keeping them entertained, my boys are over all that already. But they are not as fast finding them in a scope, and they need shooting sticks, and so on. Like I said i have mixed emotions. I'm starting to enjoy trapping more over deer hunting especially with them, we can bring home a trophy everyday, instead of once in a blue moon.
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Re: What age did you start
[Re: Wanna Be]
#7031226
10/29/20 07:55 AM
10/29/20 07:55 AM
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Joined: Dec 2011
Posts: 341 Northern KY
huntcook
trapper
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trapper
Joined: Dec 2011
Posts: 341
Northern KY
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I was 27 hunted for 4 years before I saw a deer got one on my 6 year of hunting. The season open here in 1967 I got my first deer in 1973. I probably have more deer on my farms now than was in the whole county back then. One of my farms was within a half mile of the first release site and was where I got my first deer.
Government making sin legal does not make it right.
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Re: What age did you start
[Re: Wanna Be]
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10/29/20 08:15 AM
10/29/20 08:15 AM
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 13,127 Central Pennsylvania
Nittany Lion
Don't call me Mister, Mister
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Don't call me Mister, Mister
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 13,127
Central Pennsylvania
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I was 12 years old when I started. We had a farm pond that had some muskrats and I caught 6 the first year of trapping.
I got myself a seniors' GPS. Not only does it tell me how to get to my destination, it tells me why I wanted to go there.
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Re: What age did you start
[Re: Wanna Be]
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10/29/20 03:05 PM
10/29/20 03:05 PM
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Joined: Jul 2010
Posts: 2,182 Idaville, Indiana
MB750
trapper
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trapper
Joined: Jul 2010
Posts: 2,182
Idaville, Indiana
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When I first started hunting and trapping there were no deer in our area, or almost no deer. I saw my first deer when I was 12 years old, had one rin across in front of me as I was driving a tractor from one farm to another. I was so excited to tell my Dad what I saw. When I did I was told "There ain't any deer around here." I started hunting deer, bow hunting, when I was 17 and killed my first one 5 years later. Since then the deer population has exploded. I can't tell you how many I have killed since, but it is several.
For years I have been tomstrap, now I must change because of the whims of the cyber world. NRA Life, ISTA Life, FTA Life, NTA Life
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Re: What age did you start
[Re: farmnhunt]
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10/29/20 08:04 PM
10/29/20 08:04 PM
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Joined: May 2018
Posts: 10,940 SW Georgia
Wanna Be
OP
trapper
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OP
trapper
Joined: May 2018
Posts: 10,940
SW Georgia
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Started at 10 killed my first deer at 11, with a Win. 94 30-30. I've saw more deer out the living room window in the last 1/2 hour than I did the first 2 years of deer hunting.
I started deer hunting at 10 or 11. To see a deer and you was the talk at school. Actually killed a deer at 11 or 12 and the pastor at church even recognized me, lol. Deer numbers have sure changed since then. One property they want 100 does taken and another property we’re shooting for 30-50.
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Re: What age did you start
[Re: ratbrain]
#7032461
10/30/20 10:27 AM
10/30/20 10:27 AM
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Joined: Nov 2008
Posts: 4,238 Illinois
ratbrain
trapper
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trapper
Joined: Nov 2008
Posts: 4,238
Illinois
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9 or 10. I'll be 66 in March. Sorry!! I did not read the OPs first post. I thought the thread was about trapping! My Bad!
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