At which age did you started with hunting

[hawkeye1755]

I know there is a lot of difference with hunting in the USA and Germany.
At which age did you started with hunting.Who was the one who shows you the way to hunt.What is your favorite hunt.
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[PreglerD]

So I'm from GE I started hunting in 1996 when I was 25. In GE you are allowed to hunt at the age of 16.My most popular game are roes and red fox.Before I started hunting I was a sports fisherman and sportshooter. I started shooting at the age of 15 with airgun.

 

[Halftail]

I strated Tagging along with my Father when I was 5 years old.I used to get wrapped up in a old Blanket to stay warm while in the Deer Stand or Duck Blind.I was 10 when he let me hunt on my own and 12 Before he'd let me carry anything with any knock Down power.I love Hunting Whitetails either still hunting or on Stand.

 

I got started the same age as Halftail. I was 5 when Mom & Dad bought me my first .22 for a Christmas present. Dad would take me along on squirrel and rabbit hunts, (deer were very scarce back in the late 50's and early 60's and turkeys were non-existant in my part of the country), and I'd carry the 22. Dad would dole out one round at a time, only when we were sitting. When we moved he made me unload the rifle.

I like to hunt almost anything with fur. If I had to pick a favorite it would be squirrels. This is my 48th year hunting them and I'll probably go in the morning as well as New Years Day.

Vic

 

[RC]

seems been huntin all my life, but didn't hunt with a gun till 14...some legal thing, but was always out with dad and uncles and friends! favorite hunt? the elusive american whitetail in the adirondack mts..it's what lifes all about! RC :thumbsup:

 

[Hamourkiller]

Started going with my dad when I was 5 or 6. He got me a youth model stevens 410. I could shoot at ducks, rabbits, sqirrels etc. Shot at a few deer with slugs but them big cur dogs had em moving pretty good! Finally killed my first deer using a ruger 44 mag rifle in 1968.

Hunting anything with my son and or daughter is my favorite now!

Hank

 

[Ron LaClair]

I got a BBgun when I was 5 and a 22 rifle when I was 9. my dad use to take me with him to hunt phesants. Back then, in the 1940's we had lots of phesants and I loved hunting them with my dad. He used my love for hunting as a tool to get me to get good grades in school. If I got A's and B's on my report card he'd take me hunting.

The phesants are gone now so Whitetail deer hunting is my favorite, but squirrels and rabbits are a close second.

I killed my first deer, a nice buck in 1951 with a 30-30 when I was 15.

 

[Norskie]

Started hunting squirrels and rabbits at 10 with a rolling block .22, so I was into single shot right from the start. (Wish I still had that little rifle.) My older brother, aunts and uncles took me along.

 

[mikee51848]

Started late, at age 27, after moving to Pennsylvania, 31 years ago. Learned from my dad and his cousin (a former game warden). Pine Bush, NY, first ever day of deer hunt, first deer I see, a buck. Never shot as I was just dumbstruck at the sight! :redface: Buck fever I suppose. :shake: Favorite hunt? They're all favorite, even yesterday's hunt when I sighted on a doe at 50 yds and my gun went click/phfft, as the flashpan ignited but not the main charge.

 

[rebel727]

Got my first .22 when i was 4. Went on my first hunt when I was 6. Got my first squirrel when I was 7. Dad took me squirrel hunting a few times when I was really young and deer hunting a couple of times when I was 10. After that I was on my own. Had to drag my first spike buck 2 miles down the R.R. tracks by myself when I was 12. Got him with a 7mm Arisaka I got for Christmas that year.

 

[Bountyhunter]

I dont remember not having a .22 to shoot. There was a 1906 Winchester that was ALWAYS in the pickup. I know that I shot it before I started school. I got a BB gun when I was six. But when we were loading hay or feedin cattle, I shot rabbits and rats with the .22. Got my first .410 at 8, .222 at 9, .308 at about 11. I was born in '48. Things was different in the '50's on a Kansas farm. I found a shell box last week that I had put away, still full of fired cases--old man taught me that you never, never leave your brass on the ground, you always pick it up so nobody knows you been there. It was an old Remington box marked $4.86 for a box of 20. That had to be in maybe 1959????

 

[The Baron]

My parents did not like guns. I was able to get a pellet pistol when I was about 12, from a kid on my street for $2. The gun was so old it would not fire pellets anymore (too weak) - but it would fire pincherry seeds. With some careful stalking, I was actually able to kill a bird or two with that gun, from the very tree when I got my ammo. :rotf:

I finally talked my parents into letting me get a decent pellet rifle when I was about 14, with my paper-route earnings. I spend many, many hours afield in search of anything - especially "big" game like red quirrels and chipmunks. I started tagging along with a neighbor who as a few years older than me, and really got to love being out in the woods hunting. That neighbor gave me a single shot .22 when I as about 15. I owe him alot for his generosity, as it was a real jump-start to a wonderful obsession for me. Now, I can't imagine my life without hunting.

I'd say my favourite hunting is spring turkey - with my 20ga. flinter! :thumbsup:

 

[Two Trails]

This discussion just goes to show you how things change. When we were in fifth grade(10 or 11) we would bring our .22s to school and the teacher would hold them in a broom closet until dismissal and off we would go after rabbits and squirrels. I was lucky enough to have a Grandpa that was a gunsmith and had a Stevens Favorite.I don't remember how young I was when starting to hunt but I do remember getting the deer tail.We all looked forward to getting on the Rifle Team in High School.Talk today about guns in school or a school rifle team and you'd probably have the law knocking on your door. Our local hardware would break a box of .22s and sell them to us for 1 penny a round. It was great growing up in the Old USA and being treated as a responsible hunter.
Two Trails

 

[rabjr]

I started tagging along with Dad at 5. Had my first .22 at age 6 and first shotgun at 12.

Started deer hunting at 12.

 

[jbg]

I started with my grandfather when I was 6 or 7. He had an old single shot .410 he let me carry.
I shot my first deer with him when I was 16.
I will never forget that old man, he had to be about 65, walking me into the ground one day. I was 16, fresh off of football season and thought I was in good shape. He literally had me gasping for air, going up the side of a mountain, when he turned around and said" I can't do this like I could when I was a young man". All I could say was "thank God!".

 

[OTHERN]

My dad started taking me deer hunting when I was 4 or 5. I carried his gun with him when I was 10 and 11 and at 12 he let me hunt on my own with a rifle my granddad gave me. I shot my first whitetail at 13. Legal age was 14 at that time. He didn't shoot many deer during the years that me and my brother tagged along, but he left us with wonderful memories, skills and ethics. My brother and I did the same with our kids. Whitetail deer in the black hills are still my favorite to hunt.

Othern

 

[howdydoit]

like alot of people here I started tagging along to the duck blind with my dad when I was 4. I carried a duck slaying cap gun. bang bang :rotf:


ture story then at 6 I get a winchester 1300 youth 20ga.

 

[djnye]

started me out with a single shot .22 lr--a j. c. higgens from sears. i was eight. graduated to a single break-open stevens .410, then a 12 guage double. squrrels and pats and pheasant and rabbits were the first game. later, deer and ducks and geese.

now all i have is myrtle. she's a 6 lb.+ .45 cal. flintlock sweatheart.

take care, daniel

 

[jethro224]

Born in 1966. Got my first BB/Pellet gun when I was 6. A Crosman 760 pump up. Started "hunting" mice and sparrows right then.
When I was 9 I got my first recurve bow with S&H Green Stamps. Found out about the rats that lived below the grain elevators the same year. Big Game! Got a few with the recurve and the Crosman. :thumbsup:
Took the hunter safety course and got my first real hunting license when I was 12 and graduated to squirrels.
Deer in 1990. Went nuts from there.

 

[GrizzlyBear]

I have always hunted. It seems that and the rocky mountains are in my soul.