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53 years with a gun and at least 55 tagging along. I still remember my first rooster. Killed him with a second shot from a J. Stevens Springfield 16 gauge my father had let me use when I went hunting with a neighbor. I still have the gun. It started me down a long road with sxs shotguns that has left me with more than I reasonably should own.

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61 years with a shotgun. A few years prior to that with a Daisy BB gun.


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I've only been on a few, started about 3 years ago, at 23. My Dad was never a hunter, but definitely a shooter, so I didn't start until I met the right group of friends and started working in the firearms industry. Hope for many more!

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Welcome to the forum Rocket, and Happy Holidays.
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Originally Posted By: Rocket
I've only been on a few, started about 3 years ago, at 23. My Dad was never a hunter, but definitely a shooter, so I didn't start until I met the right group of friends and started working in the firearms industry. Hope for many more!

Great to hear, Rocket. You've got a great resource here for any questions you may have about most anything related to shooting and hunting. Please visit often, don't be afraid to ask questions. You're embarking on a wonderful journey. I've got two sons, 33 and 36, that I raised into the sport, as well as going at it for over 60 years myself, so I've got plenty to share, as do many others here. Welcome!
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I came out of the womb hunting....

Hunting with weapons for over 50 years.

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In Belgium, it is a little bit more complicated, you must have 17 before you can participate at the examen to obtain your hunting license and have 18 in the coming hunting saison ( from july 1 till 30 june the next yaer). I started to hunt in the saison 1979/80, so next saison it will be 39 yaers. I am a real novice compared to many members of this forum.
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Marc, do you have to be that old to hunt with ferrets ?

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I still have my deer tag from my first deer in Maine [1944] killed an 8 point drop tine this year a total of 205 deer in my time. I'm 84 today that makes 74 years.

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Wow-84 years-- And 74 of them afield in the many hunting seasons we all are fortunate to enjoy-and the memories and perhaps fotos from those days afield. That is good news to me, at age 77, if I am careful, as I try to be, I hope to make that 84 year mark, and hopefully, can still shoot a Model 12- or a L.C. Smith, and maybe, still hit the bird in flight.

Barn pigeons are my "vade mecum" in the off seasons. Two of my favorite area dairy farms also have ponds (cattle piss drainage) next to corn and soybean fields- Great for crows and pigeons with decoys- but it always seems that when I am hunting those farms during the longish waterfowl seasons in Michigan's Zone 3-- I get many crows and pigeons buzzing the field decoys, perfect range, but with steel shot being enforced, I guess I am too cheap to fire a $1.00 shotgun shell to possibly kill a bird I'll never eat.

Late duck and goose season re-opens this week-end. All the ponds and swamps that held birds in October are frozen over, but with area crop fields providing fodder, the geese and mallards are on the river that flows by my acreage-- So, weather permitting, a M12 and Rowdy, my Lab, will be out and about, after another goose dinner-

The pheasants we used to bag on some of those same farms are gone- nobody really knows why- my guess- clean farming. Can't blame the farmer for using sprays that take out weeds and also insects-- two of the many things pheasants eat- especially grasshoppers. We are too far above the Indiana/Ohio line to get any serious numbers of quail- and we'll never get a dove season here-- so, 90% of my hunting is for waterfowl. C'est La Vie!!


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