Re: What age did you start
[Re: Wanna Be]
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10/28/20 07:01 PM
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robert.d12
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Started at 12 because that the youngest legal age in NY. I’d say let him have at it if he’s exited about it!
The beauty of the second amendment is it wont be needed until they try to take it. -Thomas Jefferson
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Re: What age did you start
[Re: Wanna Be]
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10/28/20 07:11 PM
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Joined: Aug 2013
Posts: 8,390 Firth, Nebraska
jabNE
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Was like 12 or 13, archery only deer, got first deer at 14 and a few after that during high school. I quit deer hunting though later in high school and just trapped and fished only for last 35 years. Jim
Last edited by jabNE; 10/28/20 07:12 PM.
Money cannot buy you happiness, but it can buy you a trapping license and that's pretty close.
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Re: What age did you start
[Re: Wanna Be]
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10/28/20 07:15 PM
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J Staton
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J Staton
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I was 12. Not state law but dad's law. 14 for first deer. Small 6 point.
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Re: What age did you start
[Re: Wanna Be]
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10/28/20 07:40 PM
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EdP
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I think I was 45 or 46 when I killed my first deer and that was 20 years ago. No one in my family hunted or fished when I was growing up. Dad had duck hunted before getting married, but not after. We shot from an early age, BB guns and .22s. I shot on a high school rifle team and we won a national championship in our division. No lack of shooting, but no hunting or fishing and no one in the family to mentor us. Mom refused to even consider cooking wild game. Regardless, I watched "The American Sportsman with Curt Gowdy" as a kid and knew I wanted to be a hunter and never let go of that desire. I hiked and backpacked and developed outdoor skills that I shared with my kids when they were growing up, but we didn't hunt. I didn't really get a chance to pursue hunting until the kids were off to college. Then it took time and determination to boot strap my skills to the point where I could take deer every year. Now wild game is about the only red meat the wife and I eat. Eventually I went out west and took pronghorn, elk, and bear, but unfortunately my kids are not interested in learning what I have worked hard to learn and now want to share.
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Re: What age did you start
[Re: Wolfdog91]
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10/28/20 08:06 PM
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Posts: 8,613 Henderson, N.Y. Jefferson Co.
walleyed
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18 years old in 1977.
Grew up in an anti-gun household, but my college buddy I rented a house with got me started.
Got my first buck in 1979, a nice wide nine point.
walleyed
"Provisional/Interim" member of NYS Trappers Association Jefferson Co. Fur Harvesters
I Support Non-Resident Trapping
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Re: What age did you start
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10/28/20 08:08 PM
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Posts: 45,621 james bay frontierOnt.
Boco
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Your family went anti-gun after the whooping they took in 1812?
Forget that fear of gravity-get a little savagery in your life.
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Re: What age did you start
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10/28/20 08:17 PM
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Joined: Feb 2012
Posts: 2,225 SE NEBRASKA
NebrCatMan
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Started deer hunting at age 15. Gun hunting. Went with my future brother-in-law. Got my first deer at 16... a doe taken with a 30-30 model 94 Winchester. Still have that gun, locked up in my safe. That was back in 1972 and 73. Since then many many deer have kept the freezer full, but the best part is having memories packed tenfold in my mind.
Remember "Forbidden Fruit makes many Jams"
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