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Nobody...wanted to hunt,took hunter safety course at 18 yrs old and taught myself
My dog is a member of the "Turd Like Clan"
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My dad helped me plant a food plot and put up a stand when I was 14. Started with his old 870 with buckshot. Next year I carried the old 94 30-30. Hunted with his 742 30-06 until I was 18. I bought a 700 270win when I got a job off the farm. Killed a pile of deer with the 700.
Learned deer hunting on my own.
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"Dear Lord, save me from Your followers"
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My dad was never really a deer hunter and only shot two deer that I remember. But when I was old enough he'd let me bring a rifle along when we went to check cows. Sort of an opportunistic way of hunting and of course I didn't complain. It's been pretty much self taught ever since. He did like to shoot the occasional rooster. Guessing this was over 30 years ago. ![[Linked Image]](http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e78/montanasam/A%202017/IMG_0805.jpg) That must be my stone cold killer look.....grin
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Funny I don't remember my first hunt but it was probably just my long time friend and I staring on our own back then there weren't a lot of deer in Eastern KY and our idea of scouting was I met a guy that knows a guy that thinks his friend saw some deer tracks down by the river. Oooh sounds like a hotspot lets try there. Needless to say for the first few years we were half way convinced they were like unicorns. It was either that or we would go to a place that would turn out to be so crowded it looked like the county fair. I remember once going to some hotspot someone had told us about so we get there in the dark and I'm tramping around and finally decide you have no idea where you are and your going to walk off a cliff here in the dark so I just sat down next to a tree to wait for some light. When it got light enough to see there were 3-4 other guys all sitting within 30 yards . Everybody just looked at each other got up and walked off never saying a word . It's been a trip over the past 35 years
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my dad,but he was more a rabbit hunter and I went with him since I was 5, learned more about deer hunting on my own, the first deer I killed was with my uncle Eldon, he could hunt, wish, I had the chance to hunt with him again, me and my younger brothers would go with him and drink his coffee and smoke his cigarette's, He'd bitch about it, but never meant it, I hope he is hunting on the other side!
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"I never thought I'd live to see the day that a U.S. president would raise an army to invade his own country."
Robert E. Lee
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Dad. He got me into small game hunting (dove, rabbit and quail). He started me walking with him at age 5 and this progressed over time to not being able to keep me out of the woods. At 13, I wanted to go deer hunting and he knew nothing about it but he agreed to it. I shot my first doe at 15. We both looked at it and Dad handed me a knife and said, "this is all you."
I have never seen a guy dry heave as much as that morning. I didn't know what I was doing and Dad was downwind of a cut open paunch. I remember it like it was yesterday and it was over 25 years ago.
I wouldn't trade those early memories for anything.
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My dad, but he was an a-hole to hunt with. Once I got old enough I refused to hunt with him.
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My Uncle, Hank. When I was 18 years old I was headed in the wrong direction. The rest of the world just thought I needed my a$$ kicked. Uncle Hank took me deer hunting instead. That was 41 years ago and Uncle Hank & I still hunt at that same camp every fall. I can never thank him enough.
Wag more, bark less.
The freedoms we surrender today will be the freedoms our grandchildren will never know existed.
The men who wrote the Second Amendment didn't just finish a hunting trip, they just finished liberating a nation.
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My grandfather.. We only hunted one season and he passed on far too soon... I have often wondered what life would have been like if he would have lived..
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My Father Hunted or Fished about every weekend...Until us Kids got old enough to go and then he quit hunting and fishing...I guess he did it to get away from us.. So when it was time to take us he wanted no part of it and started chasing two legged deer....I started Hunting on my own in my early 30...and took my Kids when they were ready...
“When you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
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My grandfather.. We only hunted one season and he passed on far too soon... I have often wondered what life would have been like if he would have lived.. Likely not much different, sans the good memories. We are what we are, regardless of those around us. Having it nurtured is of course always a good thing, but not necessary.
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My Dad.
He first patiently taught me how to track at about age 8. I loved tracking for Dad and he seemed to greatly enjoy teaching me. IIRC the first deer I saw shot was when I was about 11 yrs old. (1949)
I was tracking and Dad was following. We were walking as quietly as we could when Dad tapped my shoulder and stepped up beside me. When he lifted the old 99 I saw the buck. The 300 spoke and I tracked that deer another 40 yds. I had gutted a few rabbits by then but he explained every stroke of his knife as he gutted it. I wasn't shooting but I sure was hunting! I was hooked.
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BE STRONG IN THE LORD, AND IN HIS MIGHTY POWER. ~ Ephesians 6:10
Socialism is a philosophy of failure,
the creed of ignorance,
and the gospel of envy,
its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
--Winston Churchill
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Guess I was pretty fortunate, given the locale I grew up, and having a phuquing awesome old man.... he always found the time to run the trap line with me when I was 8-9 years old, hunted the hell outta bear with dogs, and in the winter time hunted coon with dogs. Fondest memories are huntin blacktails here in western Washington..... ol man never hunted hunted elk so I had to learn to hunt em with buddies in high school. Elk are stupid easy compared to western wa Columbia blacktails, they do fill the freezer up with good table fare though. Anyhow, thanks to the ol man, lotsa great memories...
Ping pong balls for the win.
Once you've wrestled everything else in life is easy. Dan Gable
I keep my circle small, I’d rather have 4 quarters than 100 pennies.
Ain’t easy havin pals.
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I grew up near San Angelo on the Concho river and we had a very small place that very rarely had deer passing thru so we never hunted them. My dad was always working but I had a uncle who owned 300 or so acres just outside of Mason,Texas. Uncle Howard Leifeste was a great man who overlooked all my stupid ideas and questions and I was truly blessed to have him as an uncle and a teacher. He used to tell my dad every deer I ever saw was a buck  He instilled a love of hunting in me that still burns bright today. He would pick up my brother, myself and my cousin after school and take us to Mason for the weekend during deer season. I was able as a yong adult to take him to a lease I was on near Garden City only one time before he passed away and I still wish I could have spent more time with him. I've stayed employed my entire adult life although I never manage to buy my own place. Due to a lifelong buddy from San Angelo I was able to introduce both my kids to deer hunting. Neither has the love for it that I do so I guess I failed to instill the love for it that I felt at a very young age. Christmas time always makes me reflect on my life and uncle Howard was a gift that God blessed me with. Merry Christmas to all my Campfire friends. Some of you I've met FTF and many others I really hope to someday over a campfire and a beer!!! My father. But from 6-8 years old till I was 16 and had my own hunting license, all I was was his "dog". Whether bare ground or snow covered he would find a track and put me on it. This is NO BS. Compass in my hand, North=1 bark, E=2 barks, W=3 barks, S=4 barks. He would make an attempt at intercepting the deer. I don't ever remember it working. As far as I can remember, my WIFE killed the first animal ever with his rifle. She killed a bull moose with it in 1992. This past year I killed a nice buck with it on Anticosti Island. On the way home, I gave the rifle to MY son and I really don't care if I ever see it again. Hunting really wasn't much fun for me. Probably why I LOVE it so much at my age.
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something. - Plato
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That's worse than my Dad. Mine was just miserable and b*tched a lot.
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