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danny clifton
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Tagged along till I was 11. Then dad gave me a savage bolt action thirty thirty. 
 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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8 yrs old. Deer hunting with a Winchester 30-30. 
 “Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching—even when doing the wrong thing is legal.” -Aldo Leopold
 
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There was a combination gas station/hardware store here in town where they would sell us shotgun shells by the round. Twenty-five cents apiece. I went in there many a time and bought a dollars worth. We're talking fifty years ago. Those were the days. |  |  |  
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Law Dog
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Red squirrels .410 can’t remember deer 12 maybe a long time ago. Trapped skunk back the also. 
 Was born in a Big City Will die in the Country OK with that!
 
 Jerry Herbst
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It all started with frogs and a BB gun. Never looked back. |  |  |  
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bb gun very young, went on the first day of buck season with dad at 11 and watched him shoot a buck behind a herd of does with his 300 savage. Then 12 years old was the magical age of passage. Got a basket rack 6 point that first day.  That was a special event back then! Now I think many get turned off by starting too young, losing site of the harvest, only chasing big racks - just my opinion. 
 DonP
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Drifter
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4 as soon as could climb those clay hills 
 Some individuals use statistics as a drunk man uses lamp-posts — for support rather than for illumination.
 
 Andrew Lang (1844-1912) Scottish poet, novelist and literary critic
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Life member NTA , and GA Trappers assoc .
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Jurassic Park
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About 6 years old I was sneaking my older brothers BB guns. 10 years old shot a shotgun for the first time and a grouse the same day. 12 years old deer hunting open sights 303 British. 
 Cold as ice!
 
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I think I got my first bb gun when I was 5 or 6, and promptly shot out the glass window of my grandmother's double oven accidentally.  I think I got a slingshot that Christmas, before I got my bb gun back, lol.  I immediately shot and killed a chickadee and then felt horrible about it as I never thought I would actually hit it, lol.
 I think I first went squirrel hunting with my grandpa around age 8 and he let me shoot a squirrel but don't tell because that was illegal.  Between the ages of 7-14 I trapped every day of season but had to use other dispatch methods as the communist state I lived in wouldn't let kids hunt until age 12, and not without supervision until age 14.  I almost got bit on more than one occasion due to their stupid laws.
 
 When I turned 14 I expanded my trapping line and began hunting squirrels and pheasant with a passion.  I was still not allowed to shoot deer until I was 16 which is when I shot my first deer.
 
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