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RE: How did all this get started anyhow?
 

I was lucky and grew up in a faimly and extended family that hunted. My grandfather would take me fishing after we finished lobstering when I was a young boy.

I guess to sum it up, it was a special gift that was given to me. I only hope I do as good of a job sharing it with my boys as my parents and grandparents did.

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most of my earliest memories are hunting and fishing.
when i was very young, my dad let me ride along when he hunted, as well as mom and my little bro. talking 2 or 3 years old. dad road hunted nearly all the time, so i alwyas got to be there for the kills. (weve since got him out of the truck, years ago here in wyoming road hunting was all that was necessary). off season, we took drives in the evening up the creek to count deer. my whole family has always hunted. grandparents, great grandparents, everybody. every summer we camped on cold creek, spent every weekend, and most long weekends, except when we went to the high country to look at elk. my grandparents camped on that creek the whole summer, only coming down once or twice a month. we lived on trout we caught, mostly with worms and hoppers.

it is all i have ever known, thanks dad.
brad

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I too got an early start thanks to my dad. From scouting walks in the woods, to summer time hikes along trout streams just looking for wildlife. I never missed a trip to ride around and look for deer.

It's funny though how my brother and I, despite having the same upbringing, are totally different when it comes to the outdoors. I live for it, he could pretty much care less.

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I'm the same way. Most of my earliest memories are related to hunting and fishing. My dad and all my uncles were hunters but they were gun nuts. I'm a gun nut too, in my own way. It was my grampa that told me about my Indian heritage and got me started with bows and arrows. I might be a gun nut, but I'm a bow-n-arrow freak! ;)

I was the same way, Bowdacious, with ol' Kurt and the American Sportsman, but I was always watching the opening of the show, with my fingers crossed, hoping Fred Bear would be on.

RE: How did all this get started anyhow?
 

I grew up in a family of hunters. My dad hunts all the time and him and I hunt together any chance we get.

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noone in my family actively hunted. my grandfather did, but he retired his gun before I knew what was going on. I attended a boy scout camp and archery was one of the things they did. well, the rest is pretty much history. my neighbor in pa helped me along, but I didn't gun hunt very frequently at all. didn't kill a deer with a gun until two seasons ago. I love bowhunting, nothing like it to me in the world.

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I enjoyed the same shows in the same fashion. A remote? That was some far off the beaten path place.
Cable? That was used to barracade someones driveway leading to their hunting cabin.
Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom? All I can say is....thank god for Jim or Marlin would have been worm food by the second show.

I did have the pleasure of growing up in a hunting and fishing familiy.

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Mom and Dad put a baby gate across the top bunk of the camper to keep me from falling off. I think I have only missed 4 hunting seasons since I was born in '70.

Thanks Dad and Mom.

My Daughter was in her first hunting camp at 6 months, and can't wait to get big enough to go with Dad and shoot a Deer/Pig/Elk/Turkey.

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I grew up in NYC all my life,
none of my family members ever hunted,
neither any of my freinds,
always loved the outdoors though,
and after i purchased my land upstate(48 acres) it was natural for me to get out and hunt.
still love to see peoples expressions when i load my car at home in NYC decked out in camo.
people actually whisper to eachother like"thats a hunter"?

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For me it started because I was in the middle of nowhere growing up in Vermont. There wasn't much to do there except for spend time in the woods, go cow tipping, or tap maple trees in the spring. My father and I spent a LOT of time fishing when I was very little, but by time I was old enough to hunt my father wasn't around much. Pretty much the only good time we spent together from the time I was about 10 years old to when I was about 22 was hunting, which is probably the only thing that held us toghter during rough times. We spend lots of time together now but when I am hunting without him, I still call him on my cell phone after downing a deer usually while I am still in my tree. I would love to find a way to make a career out of this hobby/addiction.

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I did not grow up hunting, but was avid in Colorado's outdoors and fishing through scouts. My Dad grew up in Arkansas in the depression and hunted to eat. It wasn't sport to him, so he wasn't interested in taking me.

In high school in Colorado, I was invited on a hunt with a friend. It was not far from Denver and it was a drunken camp. They were not careful with their guns or their game. A shot hit a tree near me. They snuck game home in hidden camper compartments. If this was hunting, it wasn't for me.

Twenty years later, four years ago, when I moved to Montana and my son came of age, he got his first deer after a long season. Some good friends helped us get started. We're hooked and what I would call avid but still novices. It is now my sons' favorite thing to do. This year we took up bow shooting and hope to hunt with them this fall.

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I grew up with no hunting at all.I started my dad hunting two years ago with a bow he's not good. He's alwanys gone some where.I have a tree huger for a mom too, i can't belive it cause i live for the outdoors.

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I'm the only one in my family that took to the outdoors hunting, fishing, camping etc.
I think my fasanation started as a very young kid. my grandfather hunted and fished
and i was always wanting to go with him but i was always to young to go hunting:(i got to go fishing with him alot but never hunting. i think my mom was to worried about me going hunting
so thereh was always a excuse why i could'nt go. the fasanation for hunting and the want to learn how never left me,so when i was old enough to take hunters safety i took the course and i've
been a fanatic ever since that was 30 plus years ago!!!! I'm basically self taught. I mostly muzzle
loader hunted for years and i could never understand why anybody would want to hunt with a bow and arrow it seemed so stupid that is until i tried it now i have no desire to hunt with a firearm.
I'm obsessed with archery!!!! I love it and i can't believe i wasted so many years thinking archery was stupid.