Who started you hunting?
 

My dad started me out hunting when I was small, but my dad didnt get started hunting until he was about 40 by one of his friends.

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You forgot self taught or None of the above... I learned to hunt on my own and didn't learn anybody elses bad habits ;)

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Made it happen.

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my uncle taught me pretty much everything i know about deer hunting.

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In high school a gentleman down the street that only had daughters started me on quail. I can never repay him.

mello

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My dad started taking me when I was 7 I've been hooked ever since.Hunting has always been and will always be my drug of choice.

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When I was young nobody in my family hunted. I had an old pellet gun I'd shoot birds and junk. Then when I was about 12 I went coon hunting with my cousin and his two sons. When I was about 15 they opened deer hunting in my areaa and we took coon dogs gone bad and started running deer with dogs and I havn't looked back. Now, about 40 years later I sit in a dang tree like a bump on a log.

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My Brother-In Law started me on this addiction.

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my dad started me hunting

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My Mom and Dad........

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my sister

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A buddy from work got me into archery and then helped me to deer hunt. I did some small game hunting with my dad and step dad when I was young though.

I got a few lessons from local pro shop when purchased my bow, then pretty much taught myself to shoot after that. With the help of the internet;). I shot A LOT the first 3 or 4 years though which helped.

My dad taught me how to shoot a rifle, shotgun and handgun though. I have owned guns my whole life, was just never that interested in hunting until I was around 30.

Paul

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You forgot father-in-law.

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Teddy Roosevelt really started me when we used to do African safaris. But then he reached a point where he physically couldn't do it anymore. So then I started going with an old guy in the neighborhood named Fred Bear.

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my dad started taking me when I was around 6-7....along with my grandfather.

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Dad, grandpa and my mom before she hurt herself during a camping trip

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Poll has been edited to meet other requests.

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i voted uncle but it was a combination of him my father and my grandfather but if I had to hand it to one person it would be my uncle.

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My dad had a old 1955 Chevy - Bel Air that he used for a hunting car back in the 1960's. It was his first car that he bought after he got out of the Navy in 1956.

Back then, he drove it right into the State Game Lands.

I was with him before I was 5 years old.

He worked nights sometimes at the local Speer Carbon plant and couldn't always get the first week of deer season off.

Along with the fact that my grandfather worked for the B&O Railroad as a track foreman and couldn't always get off and my Uncle that was my dad's hunting buddy was probably still in college - going to be a school teacher.

So he dressed me up in some warm clothes and wrapped me in a blanket and took me along with him. I do not believe that we ever got anything or even saw anything because I probably talked too much and made too much noise.

10 years later I shot my first buck - by myself sitting not 30 yards from the stone pile where he took me when I was little. The proof came one day when we did not have any snow and I was telling one of my family members that I sat there when I was a little kid and they didn't believe me and I picked up a small rock and underneath it was 2 Reeses Peanut Butter Cup wrappers. I put them there about 10 years before that and they were made of some type of tin foil back then and they were still there.

I would give $1,000,000 for one more ride in that old 55' Chevy and one more day with my father as a little kid.

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My friend first got me interested in shooting when i was 17-18. We became friends because we both were military junkies who loved to talk about guns and weapons of the various militaries around the world. He took me out and i fired his .22 and was hooked from then on. I eventually moved up to a 12 gauge and then his .222 which i absolutely love and told him i will buy when he wants to get rid of it. This deer season will be my first and he will be right along with me. My uncles and my dad hunt but none ever taught me and my dad never took the time to help me and get me interested (mom and dad are divorced) but now that i've gotten started kinda on my own with the help of a friend, i think he's realized its his responsibility to help me. He doesn't know this but i bought my guns and got interested in hunting because i was hoping it would be something we could do together, strenghten our relationship.

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my dad

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My father used to bring me when I was little... up to early high school. we were never really successful, but they were good times... He cannot hunt anymore due to his health... so he lives through our hunting... He is as into the stories as anyone!

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I noticed Mom and Dad are on there but seprate. You should put up 'parents' as well since they taught me as well

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My daughter got me started in hunting

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My uncle taught me how to hunt, and we was able to be with me when I shot my first Turkey, and chances are he'll be able to see me shoot my first deer.

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Both my father and my grandfather. My parents were farm people so hunting was a lifestyle.

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Interesting how no one learned to hunt from their Mother-in-law. I've heard of mother-in-laws driving guys to drink, but never teaching them to hunt!:D

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My father started me out hunting squirrels in Wisconsin. I graduated to hunting bunnies, then onto pheasants and deer.

I miss those days. A lot.

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I was going to say my cousin but I forgot about my long lost friend Eddie Justice at the end of high school. I wonder what that guy is up to these days or how many trophies he has?

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My dad's dad hunted but he quit before I was born. My uncle on my mom's side of the family is a big hunter and I spent 1 week during the summer with him when I was 12 and I was hooked with the outdoors. We went fishing and looking for deer at night and went to the huntclub and I saw all of the mounts on the wall. I still hunt with my uncle and I now have my son going with me to carry on.

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God started me hunting. He made me a predator, just like lions and tigers and bears oh my!

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my dad made me a deer hunter from the moment i was born they say thta my first word a s a baby was deer so i was born to hunt so i would say my dad and god

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I have started deer hunting for 2 years now and I love it!! We run dogs in florida

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My uncle started me hunting. My parents were never really that into it.