Wow! I just realized............I have more time on stand then you guys have been alive![:-]

Congrats on your first decade in the woods, hope you have many more.

Congrats. You are just getting started!

Congrats Washinton on your first 10!!!!! Man I wish Iwas still on my first 10, I am going on 34 seasons in the woods. Heck when I started hunting here in Michigan you weren't legally allowed to hunt out of tree stands, and then when they finally started letting us we get the ol baker death trap!! Walt

Ha im only turning 19....you old farts!

That happens when you're older than dirt.

Congrats to the young face painter on a decade in the woods, chasing the majestic whitetail. This fall I not only turn 28 and will be getting married (), but it will also mark my 16th year in the whitetail woodsand I still have no idea what I'm doing. However, if I knew 10 years ago what I think I know now, I have a feeling I'd have a few more deer adorning my walls. Man, I feel old.

Wally - when I attended my bowhunter's education class back in 1991 the course instructor used an old Baker climber to show us how a climbing stand worked. I remember it was the first climber I had ever seen and I thought it was the most ridiculous thing in the world. I wonder how many people fell out of trees, or nearly fell out of trees, while using one of those stands?

Like Greg, I have been hunting deer longer than you've been alive too!
That is scary.

I turn 45 next month
a few more years and i might have to have one of you young guys come to Iowa to hunt with me. I'll need someone to drag the deer out!

Congrats Dan.

Thanks for sharing the pictures.

Just keep enjoying your time in the woods. It is valuable and precious time, really!

I wish I would have gotten a start on hunting and even bowhunting earlier in my life. At 24, some prime years of hunting have gotten away from me.

Get worse??? The 20's were the best time of my life. All the authority of an adult, but nobody expects you to REALLY act like one yet. Lots of fun in my 20's.

Now that I'm in my mid-30's I have real responsibility and while I'd like to still go hog wild and do everything that is fun under the sun I've had to narrow my focus on what is really important...family, work, and hunting. It's not all bad though because now there is more focus on hunting...and fewer hangovers.[:'(]

I'll be 25 in june, married in august of '09 and building a house this summer. I wish I could go back to the College days when I was 20 and my biggest concern was how we were going to pay for the beer for the next week. Actually I love where my life is now and probably wouldn't change anything.


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this spring marks my 10th year hunting...started spring turkey when i was 12...sure seems like yesterday...turning 21 in about a month...graduating college in a year and a few months....i think im ready for the "real world" i was definently ready before this college crap....college has wierd effects on me...still have my work ethics and all that, but its definently an easy life...not working..living off loan money...free to do what i want and hunt and fish when i want if i dont have class or work to do...havent completely changed, just before college, i was working 40-60hrs a week...always been pretty self sufficient...live at home still and all that...but bought my own vehicles...pay my own bills and that...still do...just going to have to work for it later to pay it all back

still remember dropping that first doe with the 308...still remember dropping my first coons out of the tree..still remember the first 2 squirrels i killed with my 22...still remember that first shot i fired at a grouse and watching it fold...tons of memorys....