Tideup
Senior Member
I'm 58 and I started going with my dad and brother when I was 4 or 5..... a long time...
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How many Years have you been Deer hunting
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georgia_home
Senior Member
About 30-32 started in the mid 80's. Forget exact year.
A friend, manager at my first job in fast food, had some friends going deer hunting.
No clue what I was doing. Walked into the woods, sat against a stump, with parts of the tree on either side as cover.
A 6pt walked over, close enough to ask for a cigarette. Under 10 feet. Shaking like leaf in a hurricane, I ripped off 2 shots and missed. But, I was hooked.
In the mid 90's, the friend and I went again, and i was there when he shot his first deer.
We lost contact a little after that, and I just found out recently he died back in '14.
Thanks Mark! Peace be with ya brother.
A friend, manager at my first job in fast food, had some friends going deer hunting.
No clue what I was doing. Walked into the woods, sat against a stump, with parts of the tree on either side as cover.
A 6pt walked over, close enough to ask for a cigarette. Under 10 feet. Shaking like leaf in a hurricane, I ripped off 2 shots and missed. But, I was hooked.
In the mid 90's, the friend and I went again, and i was there when he shot his first deer.
We lost contact a little after that, and I just found out recently he died back in '14.
Thanks Mark! Peace be with ya brother.
GeorgiaGlockMan
Senior Member
40 years +/- but there is about a 10 year gap in there where work and a new family took over for a while.....
Keith Karr
Senior Member
50 years....just turned 60 and started deer hunting around 9 or 10 years old.
Hope I've got another 20-30 years left !
Hope I've got another 20-30 years left !
GAGE
GONetwork Member
I was introduced to this addiction at age 21, and this year will be my 24th consecutive year.
Echo
Gone But Not Forgotten
Forty three consecutive years and counting for me. 
olddawg89
Senior Member
My first time was on Tray mt. I was 8 years old. Saw deer at first light, that was 54 years ago!
I`ve been deer hunting for 51 years. That`s how long we`ve had a deer season in my part of Georgia. Killed my first deer in 1967, and my first kill ever was a wild turkey in 1959. I`ve been hunting anything that was in season since I was strong enough to keep both ends of a long gun off the ground at the same time.
It`s a tradition that I`ve never missed hunting on opening day.
It`s a tradition that I`ve never missed hunting on opening day.
FishingFarmer
New Member
Forty years this coming thanksgiving day, killed a seven point at 1:10 pm I was ten years old sitting in a tree stand my father built and put me in. Been addicted ever since
PopPop
Gone But Not Forgotten
45 years. A lot has changed. My camo finally matches.
brownceluse
Senior Member
30 years heading in to year 31.
FOLES55
Senior Member
23 years and looking for many more. However I'm finding that the harvest of the quarry I'm after is no longer becoming my main focus and I'm enjoying God's creation on a lot different level than I did when I started this journey.
saltysenior
Senior Member
I was used as a driver by my uncles when I was 14....went with a gun by myself when 16 in 1955....killed my first in 1959....so, on and off , roughly 65 yrs.........scary
bulldawgborn
Senior Member
Been going with my Dad for over 25 years. Believe this will be my 23rd season toting a rifle
jimmy.444
Senior Member
Killed my first deer in 1978 with the .444 that I still have, in Braxton Ms.
I'm 55 now. Missed some years because of military service, but I've been at it steady since 91'
I'm 55 now. Missed some years because of military service, but I've been at it steady since 91'
ripplerider
Senior Member
Well over 40 yrs. Dad wasnt a deer hunter but he loved to chase small game. I learned a lot of valuable lessons squirrel hunting. I started seriously hunting deer when I was 20 or so.
sghoghunter
Senior Member
Somewhere around 30 yrs. Nobody in my family was very much of a hunter and really can't remember what got me interested in deer hunting. Took me around 5 to 6 yrs to kill my first deer which turned out to be 2 doe's at horse creek wma
rosiesdad
Member
Going on 60................
SlowMotion
Senior Member
This will be my 2nd season. I'm 33 and my dad didn't hunt. I learned a lot last year hunting the Corp land. Hoping to get my first deer this fall.
Buckstop
Senior Member
Got a late start as Dad was a fisherman but never hunted. Uncle in VA took me when I was 21 and I was hooked. That was 33 years ago. Time flies.
