When did you pass hunters education class, and go on first deer hunt?

[elk247]

That's awesome guys! Congrats on your new hunting partners.  that's what its all about right there!

[elk247]

1995 age 12
Twin City shotgun club
PSE hand-me-down must of weighed 12 lbs with a 40% letoff
Blacktail doe 15 yds age 12
Went to hunting camp in Champion (Kapowsin) after school that first Friday of the season (season already started during the week) and had a deer in the back of the truck by dusk. Shot the first legal thing I saw  Best eating deer I've ever harvested to this day. 'Ol Hanz and Vita were smiling almost as big as I was when I checked that deer through the gate.

[Ghost Hunter]

Moved to WA from AZ in 1969, 16 years old.  Mule deer yearling after dad killed the doe.  Winchester 32 special.  Dad wasn't able to hunt much after that year.  Miss him.  Amazing the places we went with a 2 wheel drive pickup.

[Smoke]

1)  1985 with my son
2)  8 point white tail (eastern count)  in 1976, 24 years old
3)  Mossburg, 12ga, pump action

[police women of America]

1) 2013 age 13
2) going for my first deer this hunting season!
3) Savage, 11/111, .308

I had to work 2 years to get that gun but it was more then worth it.

[Thefisherman83]

1995 age 11
Fall of 95' 2x1 blacktail
Remmington 700 30/06.

[wence5]

Going way back into the archives here, 1972. In Oregon at that time you had to be twelve to hunt, so I took hunters ed in the spring and hunted that fall. Didn't get my first buck until 1976 though.

[DOUBLELUNG]

Took the class in 1986 when I was 18 (grew up in an anti-hunting family, asked for a .22 every year from 12 on, bought my own guns and took hunter safety when I turned 18).
First kills were small game and game birds, first deer was a whitetail doe in 1987, with my grandfather's Model 94 .30/30.
Took the class again in 1996 with my bride.
Sat through the class again in 2008 with my son.

My mom still says her biggest disappointment in me is when I bought a gun and killed an animal.  I tell her she's lucky that's the biggest disappointment I've caused her

[police women of America]

Took the class in 1986 when I was 18 (grew up in an anti-hunting family, asked for a .22 every year from 12 on, bought my own guns and took hunter safety when I turned 18).
First kills were small game and game birds, first deer was a whitetail doe in 1987, with my grandfather's Model 94 .30/30.
Took the class again in 1996 with my bride.
Sat through the class again in 2008 with my son.

My mom still says her biggest disappointment in me is when I bought a gun and killed an animal.  I tell her she's lucky that's the biggest disappointment I've caused her

that's awesome

[Longbowz]

Kind of an old thread but here goes:

Took the class in 1968(?) and tagged my first deer in 1969 bowhunting in the old Nason creek bowhunting only unit.  Things were much different back then. 

[cougfan79]

Hunter safety in winter of 1990 at 11 years old.  First hunt was in the Colockum.  Haven't been back there since 1995.

[TONTO]

  1) 1984 13yo
  2) 1985 blacktail spork
  3) .303 british, iron peeps

[Okanagan]

I think it was 1957 or '58 but could have been '56.  In my faulty memory it was the first year they required hunter safety for a youngster to buy a license.

Fork horn in Blue Mountains, range of 15 feet.

Savage model 340 bolt action carbine in .30-30, open sights. 

[fishnfur]

Sad story,
   - Dad's rifle education - age 8.  No hunter ed.  (plenty of weapons training - USN /FMF 1st and 3rd Marine Divisions)
   - First rifle - 1973ish (age 14) Remington .30-06 (traded away in a car deal in '88)
   - First hunt - 2011

[chester]

Passed in 1991 age 6 spent a lot of time knocking down grouse and ducks for awhile before I got my first deer , a fork horn black tail .
Ruger m77 30-06 at age 13


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