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I didn't grow up in a family that hunted. Nobody had guns (except the ex-military guys, and those were Beretta 9mm). We lived in a safe neighborhood outside of Chicago. I went to college in Northern Michigan and decided to hang with my fraternity brother as he slug hunted deer. He got one, gutted it, had it butchered, ate me some venison jerky. Following year, got to fire my first gun at my first deer. It was his 12 and had to use a slug and I did an amazing job of taking out a small tree next to that deer and spending the next 30 minutes wondering how the someone shoots a gun that kicks like that. Later on I fell in love with the 12 gauge and have been doing skeet/trap using a tactical Mossberg with a 28" barrel added to it. I get a lot of looks but I'm not buying fancy shotguns.
Fast forward well over 10 years, I'm 35 and have decided to go for a hunt. I've been doing range shooting for a little while now, specifically I'm interested in long-range shooting. I use Savage rifles and Nikon or Burris optics right now for paper punching. Getting pretty reasonable.
I've signed up for a Hunter's Education course (in Sandy Springs, I think) and hope that it'll teach me where on public land I'm allowed to hunt, how to actually share the land, and something about leases and what not since that same buddy told me public land hunting is rough. I live downtown so unless I snipe out of my window at pigeons and consequently get arrested, there's no land in my name (although I'm looking, not even just for hunting but for race car storage).
I guess the point is, if anyone wants to mentor a newb and make a buddy... I'm your guy!
Fast forward well over 10 years, I'm 35 and have decided to go for a hunt. I've been doing range shooting for a little while now, specifically I'm interested in long-range shooting. I use Savage rifles and Nikon or Burris optics right now for paper punching. Getting pretty reasonable.
I've signed up for a Hunter's Education course (in Sandy Springs, I think) and hope that it'll teach me where on public land I'm allowed to hunt, how to actually share the land, and something about leases and what not since that same buddy told me public land hunting is rough. I live downtown so unless I snipe out of my window at pigeons and consequently get arrested, there's no land in my name (although I'm looking, not even just for hunting but for race car storage).
I guess the point is, if anyone wants to mentor a newb and make a buddy... I'm your guy!
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