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I grew up hunting and fishing with my father. We did more fishing when I was younger because we lived close the the Gulf then. I tried waterfowl a few times but I'm poor a poor aim with shotguns and I can do without being wet, miserable and sitting in flooded fields. We went deer hunting several times a year for twenty years for whitetail and the occassional axis, fallow or sika, plus turkey, feral hogs, javalina, etc. (Even though I cannot hit with a shotgun, I am a very good aim with a rifle. I guess I got that from my mom being one of LSU's first women marksmen.)

I have not gone in the past several years because my interests are elsewhere, but over twenty years of outdoors life will hold me over for a bit longer. I hope. I do so long to get out of the city...

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Flynn_Nomad wrote:

Im 33 years old from the north east and my Dad was/is a big deer hunter.

He never really thought I was interested and never taught me how to hunt.

So a message to all you fathers out there.

When you ask your kid if he wants to go hunting when he's 16 and he says no, keep asking.

I was/am deadly accurate with all forms of archery.

My favorite is the recurve bow, takes more skill.

My dad never let me practice too much with his compund bow because I kept pushing arrow after arrow out the back side of the target and kept messing up his arrows!

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You can always practice with a different bow then you hunt with, but you also need to practice some with the bow you hunt with just before taking the trip. It's like a shake-down of the equipment and it gets you readjusted to the sites and what the drop rate will be like. Every time I did not do the latter the compound recurve I use to hunt with will shoot high, even though I know in my mind to expect that.

I used to use an open recurve but maimed the deer several times and not reaching the heart. Watching a deer die by a pieced lung only and missing the heart is not fun. You want to be certain, so I use compound bows now.

I'm a vegetarian.

My Dad hunts with blackpowder rifle. I shot that thing once when I was 10 and it knocked me on my ass lol. My shoulder didnt work right for a week. My mom wanted to hunt down my dad, skin him, and cook him for dinner.

Actually now that I think of it, maybe my vegetarianism springs from a long history of putting my bike away in the barn at night and running smack into the deer carcass hanging from the rafters. That kind of thing tends to scar a pre-teen girl.

My husband is a good shot with a compound bow, but only at targets and other inanimate objects. I hope. Eep.

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Vorpaks wrote:
I'm a vegetarian.

My Dad hunts with blackpowder rifle. I shot that thing once when I was 10 and it knocked me on my ass lol. My shoulder didnt work right for a week. My mom wanted to hunt down my dad, skin him, and cook him for dinner.

Actually now that I think of it, maybe my vegetarianism springs from a long history of putting my bike away in the barn at night and running smack into the deer carcass hanging from the rafters. That kind of thing tends to scar a pre-teen girl.

My husband is a good shot with a compound bow, but only at targets and other inanimate objects. I hope. Eep.

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Hooray, I'm not the only vegetarian Wookiee ranger! And here I thought we were anomalies...