My dad's a killing machine ;)

[BLACK WOLF]

I just had to share this with you guys.

My dad just told me yesterday that he has shot his 5th. deer this year in Illinois....I believe it was 3 with a bow, one with a shotgun and one with a muzzleloader.

This has been his best season by FAR and has kind of made up for those many years of getting nothing.

It was so great to hear the excitment and pride he had in his voice. He sounds like a kid again...even though he's in his mid 60's. The excitement I hear in his voice was similar to the time when I got to witness him getting his first elk...but I think that was more shock and disbelief he felt after hunting elk for nearly 25yrs. without getting one.

Like most people here, it was my dad or some other older male role model that got us started in hunting.

I'm hoping this thread will cause some of you to share some of your personal stories about the men or people, who got you started into hunting.

I would love to hear 'em ;)

Ray ;)

[Bob Gordon]

Blackwolf...My dad got me started down the path hunting and fishing too. We had a lot of good times together in the woods but one "hunt" really sticks in my mind. I was just a kid in high school and we were hunting blacktails in some old logged over country in western Washington. I was 15 I think and by myself when a car, a new '54 maroon chevy stopped on a old logging road about three hundred yds away and someone took two shots at ME!! One went over my head, close and another hit a tree real close, I hit the ground yelling and screaming and the car took off, this was way before hunter red or anything. I was pretty rattled and when I met up with my dad and told him he was pretty ticked off. He was your typical bank president, very correct in everything he did and would never step off the correct path. Later on that day we found the same maroon chevy parked along another dirt road, my dad got out of our car and calmly put two 30.06 rounds thru the grill into the engine, got back in our car and said " maybe they will be more careful what they shoot at next time" and we left for home. I remember that well...warf

[BLACK WOLF]

LOL...I can't say I don't blame him ;)

Ray ;)

[BLACK WOLF]

Hmmmm...I thought there would be more people with stories about their dads.

How many picked up bowhunting without any family influence?

Ray ;)

[Lambow]

Ray, I'm happy for your fathers success & you being so proud of him.Do all you can with, and for him while he is still here.
I lost my father 18 yrs. ago. I was 27 and he was just 58. He taught me how to hunt & fish. Quail, dove, & ducks are what we hunted the most.There wern't many deer in Ga. back in the 60's & 70's. I didn't start deer hunting until the late 70's. My father didn't care much for deer hunting, but did try it a few times, though he never killed one. My mother & i put flowers on his grave last week... Yea, i still miss him.

Bob, that was a close call there, back when you was a youngster. The guy that took those pot shots at you is lucky your dad didn't put a couple of ought 6 holes in him, instead of the car.


Lambow

[mwc]

I hunted with my dad since I could follow his footsteps through the Michigan snow. He took me hunting when all I did was ask him if every sound or stump was an oncoming deer. Due to some family tension, dad and I don't often speak. When I dropped my first deer this year I decided to give him a call. To say the least he was proud and for atleast the length of one phone conversation all other issues faded into the background.

I'm going to have to kill more deer.

Matt

[Passthru]

I taught myself how to hunt. Retrospectively, that was a bad idea since I didn’t know how to hunt. :)

[swampy]

Glad to hear about your dad,s success this season!!

Mine moved to Fl and hasn,t hunted in yrs.He,d have trouble walkin very far without becomeing winded(a life time of smoking will do that) and cold.Id love for someday to have the cash I could send him on a guided hunt where they could bring him out via a 4 wheeler right to stand ect.........he,d be able to shoot and get real excited but phsycal limits would keep him grounded without some sort of help.

One of my huntin partners tagged out this yr which ain,t that easy here LOL actually he could come up with more tags (nuesence permits) but as for regular tags he,s all done with a total of 6 for the yr between buck,s and doe,s.....talk about a golden horseshoe up his ????? LOL I,d rather be lucky than good