"when did You start hunting"

[Winterhawk1960]

With a single-shot pellet rifle in 1968. With a Ben Pearson recurve in 1972.

Winterhawk1960

[John3]

Started with squirrels and rabbits in the early 1970s.  I was barely big enough to keep up but was always so happy to get to go.

My first deer season was probably 1978 with a 20 gage shotgun. My first bow tag was purchased in 1988.  

Thanks Dad for starting me so many years ago!

[getstonedprimitivebowhunt]

Thanks for your replies

[rxhntr]

I started going with my dad about age 5 or so. My brother and I would tag along until we started shooting. We had to share our first longbow and shot many rabits and squirrels with it. By age 8 or so we took the hunter safety course and began shooting shotguns and 22's. By age 11 I was pretty profecient with the bow and took that pig hunting while my dad went with a gun---I finally got him hooked on a bow when I was in my teens and killed my first deer. Together, my father,brother and I have not missed an archery season trip together in about 22yrs. I love the sport because of that. This year my son is 10 and he is taking his hunter safety course this summer when out of school. Hopefully the legacy will continue.

[woodsman 365]

I was waiding brooks with a stick, string and a few worms at 8 years. I hunted small game at 13 with a 22. Deer at 16. trapped a few years after that. Hung up the guns for bow at 40. learning to shoot trad to hang up the wheels at 53. 10 kids in my family and I'm the only one that took to the woods. I had to learn the woods on my own for the most part. There is a couple young hunters that come to me for advice. One of which was in a non hunting family and had no one to help him get started. I hear from them every hunting season to compare notes and tell some stories.

[getstonedprimitivebowhunt]

keep'm comming Guys !!

[Rooselk]

Originally posted by Dick in Seattle:
Last October, at age 71

I read the story of that hunt in the TBW newsletter. I was truly impressed. A big congrats to you on a successful hunt.

[GREASEMAN]

It seems like two lifetimes ago!What a journey it has been.I wouldn't have ventured over the next Mountain ridge if it had'nt of been for the Stick and String!If boot soles could speek.

[LimbLover]

I started hunting this year. Squirrel hunting with Dad when I was younger but that was with a pellet gun.

[Craig Schoneberg]

Got my first bow when I was 8 (1956) - kept the chickens in our barn yard on red alert - also hunted rabbits and squirrels in our pasture and neighbor's property.  First archery deer permit purchased in 1966 - and haven't missed a season since.

[trashwood]

As my memory serves (and it mya not too well) my first deer hunt was in 1957.  it was the first archery season in Texas.

rusty

[Don Stokes]

Too young to remember (or is that too old to remember?).

All the men and most of the women in my family hunted, so it was inevitable. Started with a bb gun when I got strong enough to cock one. All the neighborhood kids hunted songbirds with our Daisys, and notched the stock for each kill. My hero had over 300 notches on his. Parents frowned on shooting mockingbirds (the state bird), but not much else. Bluejays, sparrows and cardinals were considered pests. Now I feed them.

Started bowhunting for deer in 1962, I think. Have roamed the woods and fields at every opportunity, with gun or bow, for the past 55 years or so.

[George D. Stout]

My first hunt was in the early 50's.  Didn't take up the bow for hunting until 1965.

[getstonedprimitivebowhunt]

This is great hearing your stories !!! Thanks

[joevan125]

I was 10yrs old and my dad had joined a hunting club in Pickens county.

One day at lunch when all the grown ups were napping i grabbed my Whitetail 2 compound and walked out behind the house to look down the power line.

As i eased up to the field i looked over to my right and there was a doe bedded down next to the paved road, i couldnt believe what i was seeing.

The deer was looking at me and chewing on something. She was only 8 steps away and i was shooting bare bow with 3 finger under.

She finally stood up and i shot over her back by inches.

Thats the day i became a hunter in my mind and i will never forget that day 32yrs ago.

[ottertails]

My Dad bought me a little fibreglass bow after watching Errol Flynn in the movie Robin Hood back in the 60's. I was 8 or 9 yrs old. My friends and I used to hunt the railroad tracks not too far from home for rabbits, snakes and there was always a pheasant or two we'd see.

My first kill was at a running rabbit... we all let loose & missed by a mile...'cept my arrow skipped on the rail & nailed the bunny right in head! Man were we excited! We took that rabbit to our "Hideout" nearby, tried skinnin' & even cooking. Made a mess of that bunny...lol.

[Muskoxman]

I first started hunting when I was seven and got a BB gun, which pretty much wouldn't kill anything besides a tweedy bird. One morning I'll never forget is when I snared my first snowshoe hare at 8 yrs old. I had my little snowshoes on and was coming up on my first set when I heard the scream of the hare. My heart instantly started pumping a mile a minute and I was so excited I ran all the way back home to show my father my "big catch"

[tradsniper]

I started hunting when I was 12 and I killed my first deer when I was 13. I am planning on hunting with my recurve for the first time next fall.

[WildmanSC]

I haven't started hunting as of yet, but I've been rambling through the woods and mountains enjoying the beauty of God's wonderful creation for 45 years, started in 1965.

Bill

[David McLendon]

First squirrel/rabbit hunt in 1963 at 6 y/o, first deer hunt in 1969, first bow killed deer with a 1960 Bear Kodiak 1973 and I still hunt ocassionaly with that bow.