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Re: Who got you into hunting?
[Re: Joe4majors]
#1115531
10/17/14 11:05 AM
10/17/14 11:05 AM
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Joined: Oct 2013
Posts: 3,230 Semmes, AL
HippieKiller
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Posts: 3,230
Semmes, AL
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My dad. My favorite years were the ones when my dad & 2 uncles had a little lease that we'd all hunt together on weekends.
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." - Thomas Jefferson
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Re: Who got you into hunting?
[Re: Joe4majors]
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10/18/14 12:21 AM
10/18/14 12:21 AM
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Joined: Dec 2003
Posts: 9,713 Cleburne
.308
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My dad didn't care anything about hunting but my uncle Delmar who lived next door did. It was the mid 70's, I was 12 or 13...before daylight I could hear that old 68 ford crank & the tail gate slam & he would come rumbling up the driveway. That truck was bought from the local Western Auto which had gone out of business. It was a blue & white two toned 2wd, three speed on the column long bed with a huge dog box on back & a long cb antenna rocking on the bumper. 1200 mudders on back for traction. It had an AM radio & an 8 track under dash, he had a couple of tapes thrown up on the dash Willie Nelson's Red Headed Stranger & Bob Segers Night Moves. My dad had a 30-30 but I wasn't allowed to carry it yet so he let me use his 12 gauge Stevens double barrel shotgun & that stuck as my cb handle..Double Barrel. I still have & use both guns. We would go meet up with a dozen others in similar rides, drop the tailgate & the race was on. I was in hog heaven. Sorry for rambling on but those are some of the most fond memories of my youth.
Last edited by .308; 10/18/14 12:23 AM.
"When you've stared down the barrel of a shotgun in your own home, 3rd & 20 don't seem too bad"......Ken "Snake" Stabler
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Re: Who got you into hunting?
[Re: Joe4majors]
#1118269
10/19/14 05:58 PM
10/19/14 05:58 PM
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Joined: Oct 2012
Posts: 616 Alabama,USA
bebo33
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Grew up with a sister and a mother after my dad decided he didn't want to stick around. My uncle got me into hunting. My Uncle Curry.
NOW is the time for all GOOD men to come to the aid of their country.
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Re: Who got you into hunting?
[Re: Joe4majors]
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10/21/14 04:44 AM
10/21/14 04:44 AM
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Posts: 4,571 Behind you
Avengedsevenfold
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My father. He likes the outdoors, but nowhere near to the extent I do. He saw that in me at a young age and did his absolute best to keep me in the outdoors as much as possible. Looking back, he probably didn't want to go himself most of the times, but did because his little boy did.
I also believe that I was born with it. But my father taking me and allowing me to experience the outdoors as a child is one of the greatest gifts I have ever been given
Also, my grandmother, who passed away several years ago, was a very heavy influence in all of my life, but especially the outdoors. She lived less than a 1/4 mile from me and on the family farm. I spent most of my free time as a child at her house...which has a 3 acre lake it sits beside. Some of my fondest memories are of fishing with her as a kid with a cane pole with minnows we had caught in a minnow trap off of her pier. And what we caught, we ate. Her influence in my life concerning the outdoors isn't just limited to fishing....she loved to see what I had killed hunting. From the time I was 6 years old until the time when she passed away (I was 27) the very first stop I made after I killed a deer, turkey, or anything was her house for her to see it and take a picture for "her book"....
I have so very many things because of my grandmother...but one of coolest and most irreplaceable are the hundreds of Polaroid pictures of fish I caught, things I killed, etc. I miss her every day.
Carrying a gun isn't comfortable; but at times it is comforting
"Cause the cause for the pause you think you see is really concentration on the steel” NonPoint
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Re: Who got you into hunting?
[Re: General]
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10/24/14 02:16 PM
10/24/14 02:16 PM
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Joined: Sep 2008
Posts: 743 Dothan, AL
WidowMaker10
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My dad never hunted and didn't know the first thing about it. Lucky for me a family friend who didn't have any kids had land and patience. He picked me up at school every Friday and took me to his farm where we did everything from tractor work, cows, hunting and fishing. Widowmaker10 came along several years after me and was lucky enough to have this same mentor in life and the woods. He's become like a little brother to me even though he graduated from AU with a degree in Forestry but still pulls for Bama . I became who I wanted to be in life because of someone who had no obligation at all but he did it anyway. I apologize for my tardiness on this thread but I want to share my story and show my appreciation to a few individuals including our very own General. Bubba I wouldn't be half of what I am today without you in my life. You've given me lots of advice and been there when I needed you. When mom was sick and it was starting to wear on me, you gave me the speech I needed to hear and I put my big boy britches on and dealt with life. I can't express in words my gratitude towards you well enough to justify what all you've done for me but thank you brother. Just like Generals story my dad didn't hunt and really didn't spend the time with me that I wish he wouldve, but for some reason the good lord blessed me with some great people in my youth. It has led me to a career doing what I love, kept me out of trouble, and now I am looking forward to pass on what has been given to me so unselfishly and hopefully instill the same values that were taught to me. And yes I'm an AU grad but BAMA fan due to the man that took me under his wing and introduced me the great outdoors ...Roll Damn Tide
The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. Its your mind you have to convince. - Vince Lombardi
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Re: Who got you into hunting?
[Re: daniel white]
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10/24/14 08:19 PM
10/24/14 08:19 PM
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Posts: 1,636 Florida Panhandle
JTapia
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My pops, I have very very fond memories of when I was like 4 hunting with him. I was using a springfield single shot 410 with birdshot I thought I was gonna take a deer out with it if I saw one. Almost unloaded it on a wild dog one year. When I was turned 7 or 8 he upgraded my hunting gun to a ruger m77 7mm rem mag lol, still my go to hunting rifle. 7mag at 7 years old.. Dang... I would have gave you my lunch money for sure.. I can't shoot a 7MM MAG now and I am 52 years old and 170 lbs!! Got rid of one I bought a few years ago, a Rem 700, because I couldn't sight it in,I started flinching after the third shot!! Like DW said, here's my Lunch Money too!! I did, however, shoot my first Deer when I was 9 1/2. Shot him with Daddys 742 30.06. Emptied the mag...5 shots and ended up hitting him twice at about 30 yards!! Never felt the recoil but felt the knotted bruise on my shoulder for a few days afterward.
Hunt'em hard when they are hard to hunt but never, ever hardly hunt!
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