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Re: What age did you start [Re: Wanna Be] #7030790
10/28/20 08:28 PM
10/28/20 08:28 PM
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14 (1994), I believe...the first year I could legally hunt deer. Was a different ballgame then, no deer here til the 70's, so it was still pretty regulated. My son shot his first last season at 12, I wanted him to be able to handle the gun with absolute confidence, and understand what he was about to do.


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Re: What age did you start [Re: Wanna Be] #7030794
10/28/20 08:32 PM
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Kansas
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I’m thinking 12-13. Dad and mom had a appointment at Cornell university and we got to stay home by ourselves for the week while they traveled to New York. Opening day was a Wednesday and we skipped school to hunt. Not particularly well thought out and we suffered the consequences sick


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Re: What age did you start [Re: Wanna Be] #7030795
10/28/20 08:32 PM
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Dunbar, Wisconsin
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I started tagging along with an unloaded BB gun or 22 during pheasant hunting when I was 10. Started pheasant and small game hunting when I was 12. Deer season is during my birthday so I'll say I started deer hunting in 8th grade. Got my first deer in 9th grade. As I look back I really appreciate that slow progression.

Re: What age did you start [Re: Wanna Be] #7030803
10/28/20 08:37 PM
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started deer hunting at age 15 shot my first deer at 15 (or may it committed suicide)but it walked up to the truck as we stood there talking about what we had seen

Re: What age did you start [Re: k9-hunter] #7030804
10/28/20 08:37 PM
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Originally Posted by k9-hunter
started deer hunting at age 15 shot my first deer at 15 (or may it committed suicide)but it walked up to the truck as we stood there talking about what we had seen

Ha!

Re: What age did you start [Re: Wanna Be] #7030807
10/28/20 08:41 PM
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Montana
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Hunting at age 12 , kill first at 14


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Re: What age did you start [Re: Wanna Be] #7030864
10/28/20 09:08 PM
10/28/20 09:08 PM
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12 was the legal age when I started

it changed the year my son was 11 with mentor hunting

he didn't shoot one till he was 12 but hasn't not shot one since 13 14 15 16

when he was 15 he shot 2

one he shot mid drive , gutted it quick and drug it to the end of the drive

I didn't get my first till 16


set up as realistic a senario as you can and have him practice a day of sitting or how ever you hunt

my sine could not sit still when he was 11 , fidget fidget

try him squirrel hunting maybe first ifyou can get the squirrel to calm down and hop right close , deer should happen also


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Re: What age did you start [Re: Wanna Be] #7030868
10/28/20 09:10 PM
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Got my Alaska hunters education certificate in 1982 at 10 years old and started following my father in the woods immediately afterwards. I was carrying a rifle, but not allowed to shoot at a deer until 12 years of age.


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Re: What age did you start [Re: Wanna Be] #7030890
10/28/20 09:27 PM
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Re: What age did you start [Re: Wanna Be] #7030919
10/28/20 10:09 PM
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Started deer hunting at 14, when the law allowed me to gun hunt. Missed an honest whopper that season with my Winchester single shot 20 gauge....got two shots off! I killed my first deer the next season with a .32 special model 94. I didn't bow hunt until 17. I followed my Pappy during deer season, doing drives, etc. That started when I was 7-8 yrs old. He let me tote my BB/pellet rifle as we hunted. By the time I was old enough to legally shoot a deer I'd already been killing small game with my air rifle and bow for years. I shot bunches of cottontails, squirrels (reds, greys, and fox sq.) woodchucks, etc. I hauled every one of them home and cleaned them for the table. My folks made a big fuss of eating them. I felt like Jan'l Boone. The old man loved to pull a cork, so on more than one occasion yours truly was the game processor in the family....including deer. Of course they fussed over that too. I had a swoll up head about it and was made to feel proud about it. There was a U.P. boot-jack buck the old man brought home one November that I skinned and quartered in our basement while the great hunters stayed upstairs drinking. My one uncle was notorious for tossing his cookies while gutting a deer. I made it a point to cut the antlers off the head, then show uncle Fish the brains (that was his real lifelong nickname). He made an awful fuss retching and gaging. I have those antlers as door-pulls in my old taxidermy showroom yet today. Both men have been gone for years, but I think of them often while going through that doorway.


Re: What age did you start [Re: Wanna Be] #7030928
10/28/20 10:18 PM
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12 for both, learned a hard lesson about buck fever in a very effective double whammy sort of way. Shot at a young three point, my dad asked me multiple times before i shot “ are you sure thats the one you want “ I shot, I missed, reloaded shot again and killed it. Out of the trees ran a nice mature 5 point, two vital lessons in the reality of patients and persistence.


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Re: What age did you start [Re: Wanna Be] #7030971
10/28/20 10:51 PM
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I was twelve when dad let me carry on my own. 870 20g. I did kill one that essentially ran over me after being shot by my father. I counted it but actually I killed my first deer actually with a way to short PSE bow at 15 a doe. Dad joked it was a fluke and I killed a six point the next day out of same stand and proved it wasn’t. I still remember every minute of those hunts and I will be 42 in a few weeks.

Re: What age did you start [Re: Wanna Be] #7030982
10/28/20 11:05 PM
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... I jumped out of the womb prematurely and gummed a nice ten point to death


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Re: What age did you start [Re: Savell] #7030984
10/28/20 11:07 PM
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Eastern Shore of Maryland
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Originally Posted by Savell
... I jumped out of the womb prematurely and gummed a nice ten point to death


I thought it dropped dead from seeing your weird eye and uneven ears?


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Re: What age did you start [Re: Wanna Be] #7030986
10/28/20 11:09 PM
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... maybe.... hard to recall... it happened fast


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Re: What age did you start [Re: Wanna Be] #7031015
10/28/20 11:58 PM
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Age 10 ...with a knife.


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Re: What age did you start [Re: Wanna Be] #7031052
10/29/20 01:12 AM
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Age 5. Shot my first deer at 13 with a 12 gauge Winchester 1300.


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Re: What age did you start [Re: Wanna Be] #7031058
10/29/20 01:37 AM
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I started wandering aimlessly through the woods when I was eight or ten. Back then you could carry a gun when you were twelve and no one thought much about it. I could go to the local gas station/hardware store and buy individual shotgun shells for .25 apiece. My budget usually allowed for three at a time.

I was thirteen or fourteen when I first got interested in deer in a big way. Wound up killing my first when I was eighteen or nineteen. A doe. Had a love affair with them ever since and still haven't figured them out.

Re: What age did you start [Re: Wanna Be] #7031064
10/29/20 02:28 AM
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16 was legal age. Got two that year. A doe on our "party permit" and a 4 pt.


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Re: What age did you start [Re: Wanna Be] #7031124
10/29/20 06:07 AM
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