I sincerely hope I can give my daughter a 'first deer experience' (or first hog, for that matter) better than mine was. If I recall correctly, they handed me a rifle and turned me loose in the pasture. No one ever taught me how to shoot, how to set up, anything like that. So, I pretty much roamed around, haunted the big oatfield at the center of the lease and took pot shots at everything I saw.

Eventually I got a freakhorn 5 pointer...no pictures, no handshakes, no congratulations. Got chewed out for hunting around someone else's area, for shooting a 'trash' deer, for missing so many before that.

If I knew then what I know now.....

My dad and I both hunt. We hunt on the same property, have for years. I can't stand hunting 'with' my dad. I only have once in the past 10-15 years....he had a bad accident and couldn't hunt on his own so I took him. It was....an experience, to say the least.

EDIT: Oh yeah, Remington 700 .270 Win Mag.