Ill be 20 next month, I got the fever back when my Dad would go hunitng when I was really young, too young to tag along. I was stuck at home with Dad's unused tags from the previous season, Tagging my 4pnt Rudolph I had just shot. My first experience out hunting was with a 20 Gauge single shot, Never even got to crack a shot with it at a deer. Dad rarely killed a deer, he didnt care, he just loved getting out and hunting public land. My first deer came while hunting with my buddy, (I mention him from time to time now in the USMC) We jump a deer and it stopped and looked at us, we both took aim and herd only one shot. I knew I had got him with my Grandfathers .243. But we both ejected empty shells.

Due to his aiming point and mine, the entrance and exit(he was using 270) we decided it was my deer. After that It has been real slow for me until the last couple of years where Ive really put the deer down with a rifle, and only 2 deer with a bow thus far. But this year I plan on changing that.(see thoughts of Buckmaster thread)I would almost say this is going to be my first SERIOUS year of bowhunting.

I see myself in the future not even getting the rifle out unlessI'm just hunitng with a buddy or feel like doing somehting a little different. I doubt Ill even buy my muzzleloading license this year.