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I tagged along and picked up (don't know when that started)until I was trusted with a .410 single at ten. I'm seventy now so I guess I've been hard at it for 60 years...Geo
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Shot my first bird, a mourning dove, my first duck, a Susie, and my first pheasant in 1962 with my then new Ithaca Model 37 12 ga. All of the birds were taken with the very first shot at the species! (I missed many more afterword!) The dove was taken with the very first shot at a bird with any shotgun!
56 years...
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51 years for me. Started with a new .410 Savage pump my dad bought for my birthday.
This year marked 82 hunting seasons for my dad but he said this was his last season for hunting.
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Hope he has a change of heart and you enjoy more time afield together. 82 seasons is my new goal!
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I started with a 22 when I was 10 and moved to MDL 12 16 when I was 12, I am now 77 and just shot limits of ducks Friday and Saturday. hunted for 67 years!
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I do not know how many season my father hunted. Growing up in the Great Depression I expect it was more about feeding a family than hunting as we think of it. As a kid I remember him and his brother taking quail over his pointers or his brothers setters. One with a A5 and the other with a .410 double. In those days the daily limit was 10-12 birds depending which state you were hunting in, Maryland, Delaware or Virginia. In a 20 mile circle they could hunt in all three states, taking limits in each. I wish I had been old enough to hunt with them. 30 plus coveys a day, with birds in so many places you could let them rest once you took a few bird out of them. You never had to ask permission to hunt.
I don not know when he started but he was still taking a limit of Dove into his early nineties. Call it 80 years plus or minus a couple. He is no longer able to hint but we did enjoy my son send pictures of a couple black ducks he and his girl friend shot this week. That boy is 18 years and counting.
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I kind of feel like a young buck here, only been 44 seasons for me.
Started when I was around 10 with a muzzle loading double shoot squirrels and ducks for the table with my dad.
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Got you beat! Started in 05 at 28. First grouse with a Beretta 302, hooked ever since! Lucky 13 for me!
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42 for me, with the past 27 mainly on waterfowl. I missed one or two while serving overseas with the Navy. I find myself more and more just enjoying being out and not so much focused on shooting. I look forward to the road trips home to Upstate New York and occasional trip back up to Maine.
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