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Re: What did you learn to hunt first?
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04/11/12 10:36 PM
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Every bird I saw, lizards, bullfrogs all with a Daisy BB gun. Guess I started at 4 or 5 yrs old can't remember now, but have been hooked ever since.
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Re: What did you learn to hunt first?
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04/12/12 02:50 PM
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1860.colt
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rat's out at the dumps..
i'm postaddic
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Re: What did you learn to hunt first?
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04/12/12 03:08 PM
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Started out hunting my brother J/K!!! Birds, rats, rabbits, squirrels!!!
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Re: What did you learn to hunt first?
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04/13/12 01:49 AM
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I shot everything that moved with a pellet gun first off, but quickly graduated to shooting coyotes with my grandpa and dove and quail with my dad. Shot my first deer when I was 8.
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Re: What did you learn to hunt first?
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04/13/12 02:03 AM
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BOBO the Clown
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Pheasants, rabbits, hell any thing that moved
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Re: What did you learn to hunt first?
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04/13/12 02:17 AM
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lf the saying "Liar, Liar your pants on fire" were true Mainstream news might be fun to watch
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Re: What did you learn to hunt first?
[Re: kmon11]
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04/14/12 02:44 AM
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Slingshot and taconite pellets for frogs, then bb gun for birds, then long bow for rabbits, then .22 for squirrels, then 12 gauge for ducks, pheasants and deer, then rifles for deer. M16A1, A2, M4, M21, M24, and a Bradley fighting vehicle for certain two legged creatures.
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Re: What did you learn to hunt first?
[Re: coonsaw]
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04/15/12 12:54 PM
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My dear old dad would have rather watched the grass grow as to hunt. However, he still found the time to take me squirrel hunting a few times as a kid.
It wasn't until I married into a family of hunters that I got the chance to begin to learn how to do it. The rest I've picked up in the bathroom where I keep a solid stash of magazines, my favorite being Deer and Deer Hunting.
Of course it also took applying those lessons learned in the bathroom while in the field. :-)
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Re: What did you learn to hunt first?
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04/15/12 05:38 PM
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Chipmunks, pine squirrels, rats in the barn and pigeons. I was dangerous with a BB gun.
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Re: What did you learn to hunt first?
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04/16/12 01:08 AM
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There is a surprising amount of people that learned on squirrels. They dont get much attention on here but a lot of people learned on them, from all ages it seems. Do all of you with children now teach your children on the things you learned on or just what your into now? Also I was taught when growing up that what I killed we ate. I tested that only once with a blue jay when I was like 6 or 7 and my mother cleaned it and cooked it like a dove for me to eat. It tasted horrible even through the bacon.
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Re: What did you learn to hunt first?
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04/16/12 01:46 AM
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There is a surprising amount of people that learned on squirrels. They dont get much attention on here but a lot of people learned on them, from all ages it seems. Do all of you with children now teach your children on the things you learned on or just what your into now? Also I was taught when growing up that what I killed we ate. I tested that only once with a blue jay when I was like 6 or 7 and my mother cleaned it and cooked it like a dove for me to eat. It tasted horrible even through the bacon. My first memeory of a hunt was going on a dove hunt with my dad. My first hunting experience was squirrel hunting, and I'll never forget the words that were passed down from his great uncle from him to me..."step where I step, walk where I walk, sit where I sit, but above all young man be as quiet as possible". It is like I am reliving it right now in my mind!!!
"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
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Re: What did you learn to hunt first?
[Re: riverdog]
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04/16/12 03:32 AM
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Started on birds with a BB gun....then moved on to squirrels with a .22 LR....then on to deer, hogs, and the rest of the big critters
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Re: What did you learn to hunt first?
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04/16/12 03:46 AM
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Dad and I used to hunt squirrels in the woods behind our home in Georgia. Brings back good times. I progressed onto dove and quail before I was 10. I didn't start my kids out on tree rats. I thought them pretty fast how to shoot 22's plinkin and shooting shotguns. The first hunt they went on was a dove hunt.
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Re: What did you learn to hunt first?
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04/16/12 04:52 PM
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Armadillos with a 22LR. We had a 3 acre garden at the family land, they dillos got to destroying our melons, so it got to the point where Dad and I would sit up at night, on weekends, and kill them with the 22. it eventually got to the point where we were taking shifts and taking them out. We put a hurtin' on them that year. It took several years for the population to bounce back.
After that, I moved on to squirrels, rabbits, and the usual stuff. Snakes were always targets of opportunity. I was hunting deer alone by the time I was 9yrs old.
I miss the good ol days.
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Re: What did you learn to hunt first?
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04/16/12 05:04 PM
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When I really didn't know any better I chased and shot a wild pig with a BB gun. Shot the heck out of him and couldn't figure out why he/she didn't fall to my superior firepower. After all, I had upgraded from a Daisy to a Crossman. East Texas rooter evaded me, I was all of 10 years old.
Skip forward to 13. First real hunting was dove/squirrel and anything else that walked, crawled, or flew. With a single shot 20ga or pump 22.
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Re: What did you learn to hunt first?
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04/17/12 06:38 PM
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Rabbits, Squirrels and game birds.
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Re: What did you learn to hunt first?
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04/18/12 01:56 AM
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txd33rhunt3r
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Just thought I would ask because I just had a daughter and it is something that has crossed my mind on how I was introduced to hunting. Then i saw this topic and it just kind of fit. There is a surprising amount of people that learned on squirrels. They dont get much attention on here but a lot of people learned on them, from all ages it seems. Do all of you with children now teach your children on the things you learned on or just what your into now? Also I was taught when growing up that what I killed we ate. I tested that only once with a blue jay when I was like 6 or 7 and my mother cleaned it and cooked it like a dove for me to eat. It tasted horrible even through the bacon. My first memeory of a hunt was going on a dove hunt with my dad. My first hunting experience was squirrel hunting, and I'll never forget the words that were passed down from his great uncle from him to me..."step where I step, walk where I walk, sit where I sit, but above all young man be as quiet as possible". It is like I am reliving it right now in my mind!!! This is greatness! I had a similar talk but not said so succinctly. I think Ill use something similar when its time as well since I heeded the warning and I would venture to guess most of us did as well.
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Re: What did you learn to hunt first?
[Re: riverdog]
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04/23/12 09:26 PM
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Rhinos on the plains, crocs in the bayous, and buffs in the brush. I did have a long way to walk to school and pretty vivid imagination. Maybe it was jackrabbits outside Odessa with my dad's Winnie 61. Some of those jackrabbits were pretty vicious.
The Greatest Enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.--Stephen Hawking
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Re: What did you learn to hunt first?
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04/24/12 01:59 AM
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Re: What did you learn to hunt first?
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04/24/12 03:35 AM
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English Sparrows with my lever action, winchester style, Sears bought, Daisy BB gun out of my 8yr old style hunting stand. Some people call them a TreeHouse
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Re: What did you learn to hunt first?
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04/25/12 02:52 AM
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Moles. Snitches get stitches.
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Re: What did you learn to hunt first?
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04/26/12 04:11 PM
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Superduty
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Sparrows....
Then girls.
Shane
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Re: What did you learn to hunt first?
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04/26/12 04:53 PM
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Re: What did you learn to hunt first?
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04/26/12 05:19 PM
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Rhinos on the plains, crocs in the bayous, and buffs in the brush. I did have a long way to walk to school and pretty vivid imagination. Maybe it was jackrabbits outside Odessa with my dad's Winnie 61. Some of those jackrabbits were pretty vicious. Dang right those rabbits can be vicious...ya ever seen the "killer bunny" scene in Monty Python's - The Holy Grail"???? Vicious
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Re: What did you learn to hunt first?
[Re: riverdog]
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