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I grew up in the very same Maryland area described by Rickmur in his post.The militaryhas scattered me and my deer hunting to West Virginia, Alabama, Croatia, Colorado, California, Tenn, Georgia, N. Carolina and even Puerto Rico (where the speargunning and rummight make you forget about bowhunting). Currently, the military is using your tax dollars to pay for my grad school education after 15 years as military helicopter pilot.

I have been deer hunting for 27 years, but I took about 18 years off bowhunting from 1987-2005. I like killing them with a bow, but I won't hesitate to use other, more modern implements if the opportunity arises.

At 38 years old, I am married with one daughter (13).

This site offers an incredible opportunity to share info/experiences/insight and I am thankful to be a constructive (hopefully) member.

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My name is Jeff and I currently live in a rural part of Richmond...Hanover county. I moved here from Clearwater FL where I had a boat at the dock on a canal. It was a 5 minute drive (no wake zone) until the Gulf of Mexico.

I have always had a zest for the outdoors, including camping, mountain biking...oh yeah, did I mention Hunting?

I bought a Hoyt last year and fell in love with bowhunting. I have harvested several doe, and 2 bucks, all with shotgun and Muzzy. This will be my first year in a stand with my bow, and hooked already. M

I am very fortunate to have a neighbor/friend who is a developer/contractor who owns a ton of land. I have the sole lease on two of his properties wher I have been hanging stands, planting food plots, etc.

Im 40 with a beautiful wife and daughter.

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My name is Brian and I'm 34 years old and I've been hunting for 22 years. I'm a happily marriedfather of 2 little girls 16 months and 22 months old. I work as an engineering manager for Daimler Truck.

In 1986 I stuck my first button off the knuckle and from that day hunting and being in the outdoors has been a passion of mine! Over the last 22 years I've harvest 142 white-tails with about 70 % of the killswith bow, Moose, Pigs, Bears,Caribou, Rams, Fox all sorts of little critters with a bow and gun too....Even though I have seen alot of animals on the ground,I still make mistakes and screw up....It brings me back every year with more and more passion...I'm not a man with many monsters on my wall...partly due to my hunting situtation and my restriction to spend a great deal of time scouting....Nowadays I'm likely to be spending a week at Disney world:)

I am also a closet traditional guy..and I've landed a handful of deer and exotics with flint heads and cedar....
I have a passion for making video production of my hunts which I started in 1999.

I'm an open minded guy and I love to learn new things..I have a hyper side to me when the hunting stories get rolling...I love it! I would be the guy sitting over an open fire chewing grizz and drinking bush light or Corona,and listening to your stories and sharing mine...whether I'm looking out acrossed a mountain, riding my ATV, smoking a plump doe, or watching an arrow pop through the lungs....I'm happy, under any circumstance that involves the outdoors and hunting.

Brian

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Me Mike.

Mike hunt deer with bow.

Mike have wife too.. she no hunt.

Mike big cubs fan.. has been since days of Sandberg.

Mike love to hunt deer.

Mike a deer nerd.. really.

Mike writes a few words, here and there, for HNI. Mike has a journal.

Mike no be at unofficial HNI get together (once again) as wife taking him away for weekend.[:@]

Mike is a member of team 13 "the dark horses"... which is like the greatest bowhunting team in history of the world.

Mike likes Apple Pie.

Mike enjoys ice cold adult beverages.

Mike hates the designated hitter rule. Mike feels it is un-pure.

Mike hates Yankees.. except Derek Jeter.

Mike walks around woods even when its like 90 degrees... stallking whitetail and taking pics of them because he has nothing else better to do.

Mike loves the defense of the philadelphia eagles.. always has. Mike think Jim Johnson is a smart cat.

Mike has buddy named Justin who he's hunted with for far too long.

Mike go to bed now. Good night.

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wow thats quite an accomplishment!

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My name is Derek from southeast MO. I'm 34 years old....married....two boys that are 5 and 3 and have a third boy on the way that should arrive in the nextfew weeks. I make a living as a financial advisor. Started hunting at 7 years old when I got a .410 for Christmas. The first animal I killed was a squirrel. Got my first bow at 10 and the first animal I killed with my bow was a groundhog. I've been bowhunting deer since I was 15. Imainlyhunt private land in MO that my family or I own. I lease some ground in IL as well. I've killed quite a few deer and a handfull of nice deer, my biggest being 150 class ten-point. I enjoy dove hunting as well.

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My name is Jason Lawrence and Hunting saved my life. No seriously it did, I used to work in nightclubs as a bouncer and was on a vicious road to destruction when I found hunting back in 2000 and have been climbing ever since.

When I was a teenager I competed at the national level racing BMX bikes, the highlight of that was getting all the free Mountain Dew I could drink while sponsored by them and of course getting all my races and bikes paid for, wish I had that with Bowhunting.[:@]

I also ran a snowboard shop for seven years and nearly got into the whole gatebashing scene as a snowboarder until the shop owner I worked for drove me nuts and I walked away from the job and sport. That job also afforded me all the free snowboarding stuff I wanted, wish I had that with bowhunting.[:@]

After the snowboarding thing I got into working out, then power lifting but never competed. I also got into the night club scene and all that goes with that. Worked at several clubs including a few appearances at the famous Chicago Crow Bar. That grew old and got me into my first marriage which was a disaster but I did have a father in law that I shared my growing bowhunting passion with until it ended.[:@]

Currently I am a call center manager and once again married with two dogs living an hour west of Chicago. My wife is awesome and lets me hunt as much as I need to.;) I have met some great people on here in the short time I have been on here and have a new hunting buddy thanks to HNI. I am currently 35 years young and loving life;)

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My name is Bobby. I grew up in Central Louisiana. I have hunted and fished since I was probably 5 yrs old. I have hunted, trapped, and fished for practically every animal/fish in our state.(Freshwater only) I love to play guitar as a hobby and at our church. I have a beautiful wife of 19yrs who does not hunt(which is ok by me because she is still every bit a lady and more so than most men would ever dream of finding), a son 10yrs, 3 daughters 18, 14, and 5. (The 5 year old was my brothers, we adopted because of drug abuse) My oldest daughter recently made me Grandpa before I reached 40 (June 26 is my birthday).

I love to Bowhunt. I started 2 yrs ago. I harvested 3 does this past season with my bow. I am hooked and doubt I will ever gun hunt again unless it is with my children. I have learned many, many things here on HuntingNet. There is a wealth of knowledge among all who visit this site.

LT

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My name is Scot,I am from Woodstock NY.I turned 50 years old yesterday.I have a beautiful wife and daughter.I am a partner in a Property and Casualty Insurance Agency.I work a lot and get my most satisfaction from helping people.
Aside from my family hunting is my passion.Specifically whitetails.I am fascinated with them and I am constantly reading and in the woods trying to thoroughly understand what makes them tick.I have been fortunate to have a couple of exceptional mentors,men very much my senior who brim with enthusiasm when hunting and discussing hunting.
I enjoy both rifle hunting and bow hunting and would not want to have to choose between them.With the rifle I feel I can take it to them much more and cover a lot of ground which I really enjoy doing.
I have been involved in athletics my whole life and while I am no longer involved in organized sports,exercise is an important part of my life.I want to be able to give it my all for as long as I can!

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Well HAPPY 50th there tsoc!