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Both of my grandads were hunters and one of my grandmothers would go out for deer, usually hunting in the pasture near the house. I remember tagging along with her when I was probably less than 5. My dad always headed home to the farm to hunt, I can still remember one snowy night in the 67-69 time frame, standing at the kitchen window, watching for Dad to come home from opening day. Snow drifting down, me in my PJ's, nose pressed against the window, way past my bedtime. Alas, he brought no buck home that night. We also had a basset hound and I would tag along (probably starting about age 6) with them for small game. I had some Scouting buddies that were heavily into hunting (who wasn't in northcentral Pa?) and we had some great small game hunts once we were old enough to hunt on our own.

When I was 9, we moved to the farm, and some cousins (Dad's age) had a camp out the road, I couldn't wait to for them to show up each year. One of them turned me on to reloading. Dad's 82 and looking forward to this year's deer season now that his new knee lets him walk pain free.

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I don't really know. My father wasn't interested in hunting and the only grandfather I had, never spent much time with his grandchildren that I knew of, even though he hunted some. I couldn't play football because in the late 50's and early 60's they had size and age limits at some levels and I grew earlier than they liked. By the time I was old enough to play the next level, I had lost interest in football and was into bow hunting, rifles and reloading. Hunting, bows and firearms related stuff seemed a reasonable replacement for a fall activity for a teenager and it kept me out of trouble.


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The iron was a tapered aluminum rod heating element that was stepped to accept 12, 16, and 20 gauge shells. When plugged in and the iron hot, one would twist the empty shell over the iron where the heat would bring the wax out and make the paper shells like brand new.
You could get a lot more loadings out of shells using one.

We never messed with reloading paper shell - much -.
I never heard of 'ironing' in that context.

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My Dad's side of the family were all hunters, though I never knew some of them, but Dad started both my brother and I out with grouse hunting, and then eventually big game hunting -- deer and moose. Firearm safety was a big deal with him, as was marksmanship, and those have taken root in me.

Here's my frst moose - age 15

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and a nice deer I got a few years back.

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I was fortunate enough to marry a woman that enjoyed the of doors and she has been a successful hunter as well -- her cow moose and young bull moose.

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My two young daughters got to liking it to.

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I am also blessed to live in the middle of some great hunting and fishing.



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My maternal Grandfather. My dad used to mule deer hunt but when we moved to TN he pretty much quit hunting. My grandpa (that I only know through the stories) was best friends with Bill Weaver. They both moved to El paso about the same time. There was quote a hunting community there at the time. They used to gather at my grand dads on Sunday afternoons with the rest of their buddies and grandma would cook up what ever they had killed. My mother was a young girl at the time and she played waitress for them. I have a box of old hunting pictures from them that I treasure. My mother was a late life baby. grandpa died in 1954. reflex264


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My dad started taking me hunting and fishing as soon as I could carry a 22 or fishing pole. He hunted everything local and went out west every year big game hunting and several years pheasant hunting. He fished with nets, trotlines and rod and reel. He made sure I was exposed to it all growing up. He taught me to hunt fish and trap anything that swims, walks, or flys locally. He grew up in the Ozark mountains during the depression. He said if they didn't raise it, catch it or kill it. They didn't eat. Hunting and fishing is my entertainment and always has been.

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My maternal grandfather hunted alot, but he never took me and really his health was too bad by the time I was old enough anyways.

My parents didn't hunt at all. I started bowhunting when I was 14 on my own basically. I used a bow because they wouldn't let me have a gun.

I grew up wanting to hunt, just had to wait until I was old enough to make my own opportunities and learn on my own.

As a kid I would have traded the next 10 Christmas mornings to be taken on a hunt.

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I came from a long line of hunters but I often see guys that say there ancestors did not own guns or hunt and in some cases even were against it. My father was a hound man and excellent deer hunter as well as my great grand father. My Dad used an old sporterized Enfield in 30-06 and my great grand father a '76 Winchester in 32-40. I was following my Dad around when I was about 5 years old killing squirrels and climbed into a tree stand w/him in the hill country of Texas when I was 6. This was about 1957-58. I can't remember a time in my life when I was not consumed w/deer hunting. I'd like to hear from some of you other fellas about how you became a hunter...especially those that didn't come from a hunting back ground and how you became one. powdr


both of my granddad's killed game year round.... one had a 1300 acre farm, and shot any deer on that property he wanted....legal or not, didn't really matter in those days....this was before I was born...

my other grandfather, sold his farm after WW 2, and opened a store, welding shop, car repair garage with gas pumps...where he lived, deer were thick, and many of the locals just took deer year round.. wasn't much law in the county to speak of, and for many people deer were subsistence.....

both owned a 30/30... had the one my GrandFather on my mom's side used that he bought in 1935.. some [bleep] stole it back in the early 1990s....I still have his Savage 24, with the 410 on the bottom and 22LR on top.. the 22 barrel is actually shot out...it accounted for a lot of squirrels and rabbits.. two game animals he preferred over venison...

Growing up as a military dependent and living overseas from age 11 to 14, I didn't get to start hunting until I was 14....then dad went overseas to Vietnam in 68, and I didn't have an opportunity to hunt again, until after College and my stint in the Army.. that was 1980...

bought me a Rem 700 in 06 in 1980 and a 444 Marlin in 1981...
still have both...biggest deer I ever shot, was with the 444 in St Louis Co MN, about 60 miles south of International Falls.. it was about 30 below the morning I shot him in 1984...field cleaned at 265 lbs, and the DNR estimated his 'on the hoof' weight about 340 to 350...last few days of the season...

we removed the saddle before we gutted him... grin

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he was one of about 40 something deer pushed out of a swamp on a deer drive...it was cold enough they were laying down in there piled up on top of each other like snakes do...

Check out that 4 power Tasco scope on top, mounted on top of see thru mounts.. how's that for a Northern MN back woods rig... grin

overlook those glasses if ya don't mind... and that was back before my hair turned "blonde"...like it is now... whistle

Hard to believe I still have that jacket, those camo'ed pants and that wool hat with the polypropylene inner lining...

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My grandfather on my dad's side was the sportsman, and my dad fell right in to the thick of it post the Great Depression. My dad was born in 1933 and his dad/my grandfather supplemented their diets quite heavily with game taken, be it a deer and/or a dove/duck/goose. My dad started me at the ripe old age of 4, hunting and fishing with him and my grandfather. It seems if my dad had free time he was hunting or fishing, and my brother and I accompanied him. This was waaaaay before Texas was 95% fenced private land. We'd start out at my grandfather's back door and the hunt commenced. The Gulf of Mexico was 10 miles from my grandfather's house. We did some deep sea fishing and well as casting in the surf for speckled trout. My grandmother on my dad's side was every bit the hunter and fisher-woman that the men were. I can't remember a time growing up when we weren't either fishing or hunting, especially on the weekends.

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This is a great thread... For so many of us we were started young and that's a beautiful thing. I still remember when I first wanted to go deer hunting. It was November 1955, with me 3 months away from my 6th birthday. I was standing there one evening with my dad and staring wide eyed up at the deer hanging above me in our neighbors tree. Can't even recall if it was a buck or a doe; all I remember is that it was the first deer I ever saw up close and found it fascinating. Even though it was years later before I would even hunt small game and more years later before deer hunting, I consider that cool November night to be the start of my personal hunting heritage.

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My desire for hunting and the outdoors came from my grandfather (maternal side) and my best friend's family.

My grandfather was FBI for close to 30 years and an avid hunter (earlier years) and fisherman (later years). He also did lots of exhibition shooting.

Here he is in his early FBI years. He's on the right standing next to his target that qualified him for the FBI's Possible Club. Look up those requirements some time, he did it with a revolver.

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As I was growing up though, my mother wouldn't even let me have a BB gun. She was against hunting and my step father didn't hunt. She blew a gasket the couple of times that she found out my grandfather had snuck me out to go shooting.

Starting in 5th grade, I began spending a lot of time at my best friends house (still my best friend to this day). That's where I saw my first Cabela's catalog. He and his older brother started taking me bird hunting when we were in JH and that hooked me.

When I turned 18 and headed to college, I moved out of my parents house and within two weeks I had a shotgun, rifle and a BB gun grin

That was a long time ago and I've made sure that my boys didn't have to sneak around with friends to learn about hunting.

It's something that we do as a family. It's not a time for me to hide from my family at deer camp or a time for my kids to have to learn from someone else other than me. It's that time when my boys start getting excited (me too) about heading to camp, cooking out, having conversations and time together at camp that we'll remember the rest of our lives. Don't get me wrong, we have a wonderful time together at home too, but deer camp time is special.

I'd give anything to have been able to spend time hunting with my grandfather. I did however get to spend lots of time fishing with him and those are my most treasured childhood memories.

My wife doesn't hunt, but she likes to go with us and helps me process all of our deer. She also likes to shoot and go camping.

This is my oldest boy's first deer taken about 5 years ago when he was 8:

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Here's my youngest with a buck that he took a couple of years ago:

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RyanTX, great story and pics! Thanks for posting. Love to see the kids with their deer. Your youngest skipped the meat buck, huh? Nice animal.


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Thanks HuntnShoot. Nope, that was my youngest boy's 3rd deer. His first was a spike and second was a doe.

Now days, I feel like I'm there to guide them, ha. As soon as we hit the dirt road, they take over my truck. I cook and clean for them and they get to shoot the deer! grin Although, the pigs are mine to shoot, ha.


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Rhyan I can tell it's cedar country but where exactly were those deer killed? powdr

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About 20 miles east of Snyder, TX.


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My father fished and did a little bird hunting. We never hunted big game. I got a .22 from my Dad when I was in Kindergarten. We lived in a small eastern Colorado town and I spent a lot of time shooting "stuff" like cans and jackrabbits.

I started out bird hunting seriously in my early twenties and it expanded into big game a couple of years later. My son went with me for a few years but he doesn't hunt anymore.

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My hunting heritage started in North Central Missouri when I was young. A single shot bolt 22, and cottontails, tree squirrels, bull frogs, and snakes, kept me plenty busy trying to earn money for 22 shells of any fashion.

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Both my parent's families were hunters and fishermen but my dad (RIP) was an athlete and a soldier without any interest in either. He did teach me to shoot and be safe with firearms. Being an Army Brat we moved a lot and I only met my relatives briefly a few of times in my life so it didn't come from them. I have two brothers and neither is a hunter. Always read everything I could find about Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, mountain men, Kilimanjaro Bill and the rest and day dreamed about hunting. You old guys (my age) will remember the old Sears and Robucks catalog. As a boy I would sit with it for hours and make lists of everything I'd need to order for that next African safari, tiger hunt in India or hunting and trapping expedition into the Yukon. I am still teaching myself to hunt and, to a lessor degree, fish. I have had some decent success but still a lot to learn at almost 60 years of age. My biggest success so far was archery season of 2009 when I killed a 7x8 public land bull elk. I hope take my last breath in the high country with my boots on and my rifle in my hand.


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I think I would say that my heritage is mostly self fueld but influenced by many trips as a kid in the mid 70's to Warren, PA just north of the Allegany. My Fathers uncle was a forester up there and we would drive up to spend a week during deer season. As I grew a bit older, it was this experience that spurred my interest in big woods deer hunting. My uncle always had great stories to tell about the woods, his experiences and the deer he shot.

He also had a very nice pre 64 win in 30/06 that my cousin inherited and kept in closet... mad I tried to get that one but it never worked out... smile

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