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Sidelock
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Sidelock
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Dad got me my first BB gun at age 9. First .22 at age 11, Shotgun at age 12. Besides missing a few years while stationed overseas I'd say I've been hunting for about 43 years. Killed more deer than grouse in my life I'm thinking. First sxs I didn't get until 1996 when I was stationed in Germany. After I got hooked on sxs's I sold all my o/u's except a double trigger Merkel 16 and my dad's old Winchester 101 20 gauge that he bought new in 1963 from the Rod and Gun Club in Corpus Christi Texas.
foxes rule
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Sidelock
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Sidelock
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This coming season will be my 47th season, started out with squares, ducks and grouse. 22 shorts and a Remington automatic 11-48. In 410. Grouse was with an Hopkins and Allen 20 gauge.
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Sidelock
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Sidelock
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Got a bit of a late start. At 71 years of age, last season was only my 8th. I have had my own dog,(setter) for 3 years. To me, it is all about the dog work and the overall experience of the upland lifestyle. The size of the bag is immaterial. I shoot only SXS's, for both clays and birds. I'm not counting shooting sparrows and such with a BB gun at age 8-10.
HWK
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Sidelock
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Sidelock
Joined: Jan 2009
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55 for me - it would have been 3 more except for the time that the US Army stationed me in Germany. My father never hunted so I had to wait until age 10 to begin hunting with one of his partners. Hopefully God will grant me more than a few more.
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Sidelock
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Sidelock
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69 for me and I still plan on going pheasant hunting but we gave up elk at 80. just too much work after the kill.
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Sidelock
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Sidelock
Joined: Apr 2013
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61 for me.
I thought I'd miss one in Vietnam but I got recruited to hunt feral dogs on the base and once they asked me to take my TD-24(bulldozer) and my M-14 and flush out a tiger they spotted in a back corner of the base, all I found was a landmine, I don't think a charging tiger would have made me pucker anymore than that mine going off under the dozer.
After the first shot the rest are just noise.
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Sidelock
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Sidelock
Joined: Dec 2012
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47 seasons this Fall. I might have missed a few seasons here and there but not many, & certainly none that I can remember specifically.
Last edited by Lloyd3; 07/05/17 11:34 PM.
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Sidelock
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Sidelock
Joined: Oct 2009
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My dad took my brothers and I along on duck and goose hunts starting when I was about 7. Not allowed to carry a gun. Just watching and fetching. Better than labs. Lol Started shooting squirrels when I was 8 with a .410.
Got a late start on my own hunting seasons because I spent ages 11 to 16 away at boarding school. First year back home I got my licence and away I went. That was the fall of 1975 and I was 17.
I've hunted something every year since. Some years a lot more than others. So I guess I'm at 42 seasons.
Although technically, wouldn't the spring turkey hunt count as a separate "season". Haha!
Last edited by canvasback; 07/05/17 11:36 PM.
The world cries out for such: he is needed & needed badly- the man who can carry a message to Garcia
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Sidelock
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75. Dad said start with the real thing; bb guns made bad habits. Started on huns and prairie chicken in Saskatchewan.
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Sidelock
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Sidelock
Joined: Dec 2004
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I started following my dad around in the grouse woods and after deer when I was 6 or so. I was shooting ground squirrels around our property starting around 8 years old with a Remington 514 single shot 22. I wasn't old enough to buy a license at the time, but I didn't move off our property and there were plenty of ground squirrels to keep me busy.
The would have been about 1963, so it's been around 54 seasons.
Cameron Hughes
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