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Offline lokidog

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Re: When did you pass hunters education class, and go on first deer hunt?
« Reply #120 on: August 23, 2015, 10:24:38 PM »
Passed winter of 1975 at age 11,
hunted fall of 76 at age 12 (min for WI), harvested a spike buck (regressed something like 8 or 9 yo),
Remington 1100 20g slug

Sidenote:  bought the first round of drinks at a local bar since I had gotten the first deer opening morning, slo gin fizz was my drink.   :chuckle:   :tup:

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Re: When did you pass hunters education class, and go on first deer hunt?
« Reply #121 on: August 23, 2015, 10:55:00 PM »
1989 10 years old went that same year and shot a spike whitetail buck

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Re: When did you pass hunters education class, and go on first deer hunt?
« Reply #122 on: August 23, 2015, 11:40:21 PM »
Hunter education I did in 1979, I think. If not it was 1980. First deer would have been in Montana in 1983.

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Re: When did you pass hunters education class, and go on first deer hunt?
« Reply #123 on: August 23, 2015, 11:50:14 PM »
HE in 72 outside Detoit. First deer a nice little whitetail
buck 2 years later !
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Re: When did you pass hunters education class, and go on first deer hunt?
« Reply #124 on: August 24, 2015, 01:14:22 AM »
2013, rattlesnake mountain shooting facility, I have been "hunting" since a very young age, so it wasn't my first, but i got my first deer that year.

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Re: When did you pass hunters education class, and go on first deer hunt?
« Reply #125 on: August 24, 2015, 05:26:38 AM »
Back in 1980. Killed my first deer in 1983 and have killed at least one deer a year(multiple states) since.   This might be the first year I don't hunt and break that streak. 

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Re: When did you pass hunters education class, and go on first deer hunt?
« Reply #126 on: August 24, 2015, 09:39:50 PM »
1988, 10 yrs old,
Blacktail spike, same year,
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Re: When did you pass hunters education class, and go on first deer hunt?
« Reply #127 on: August 25, 2015, 12:38:51 PM »
Took Hunters Ed in junior high probably 1990.
First deer 5 x 5 whitetail in 2001.  Still my biggest deer.
The gun was borrowed from my now father in law a 30-06 autoloader.  Not sure of the brand.

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Re: When did you pass hunters education class, and go on first deer hunt?
« Reply #128 on: August 25, 2015, 12:47:56 PM »
2004 I took hunter ed at age 12. Here in yakima. Didn't kill my first deer until 2007 in montana

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Re: When did you pass hunters education class, and go on first deer hunt?
« Reply #129 on: August 25, 2015, 12:57:03 PM »
Passed: 1996
Port Angeles, WA
Age: 8

First Deer: 2003
Weapon: Toyota Tacoma
Blacktail Spike

First Harvest: 2004
Bow: PSE Fire Flite
Blacktail: 3x2

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Re: When did you pass hunters education class, and go on first deer hunt?
« Reply #130 on: August 25, 2015, 01:09:43 PM »
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Re: When did you pass hunters education class, and go on first deer hunt?
« Reply #131 on: August 25, 2015, 01:17:26 PM »
Passed in 1995 at age 12 and shot my first whitetail, a nice little basket rack 4x4, on the late hunt outside Chewlelah. Still remember it like it was yesterday!
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Re: When did you pass hunters education class, and go on first deer hunt?
« Reply #132 on: August 25, 2015, 02:03:50 PM »
Passed it in 2001 when I was 11 and killed my first deer that year. First elk in 2003

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Re: When did you pass hunters education class, and go on first deer hunt?
« Reply #133 on: August 25, 2015, 02:08:45 PM »
1. Wasn't required when I was a kid.
2. First deer a WT doe 1976, I was 11
3. Borrowed .300 Savage open sights mod 99

 


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