How old were you when you killed your first deer?

[bignose]

43, never too late to start ...

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[honda450]

Got my fist deer at 12. using my grandfathers Model 1917 Remington 30.06. 30 yards or so from what I can remember. He set me up good. Still have that rifle. My son will have it too.

[Hatfisher]

I got my First one last year at 23. She weighed in at 68Lbs dressed out. took her at 150 out to 300 yards, up hill shot with my Sako .308. One very proud moment. Got my first Mule Buck and Doe this past season as well as put my cousin on his first ever deer buck and doe, Muley's aswell. He is 26.

[Tundra Monkey]

Still no deer in this kids past (38 now).....hunter host anyone???

Merry Christmas

tm

[yote1956]

I was 12 when I shot first buck a 2 pt. with my Grandfathers Rem. pump 30-06.
That was along time ago. lol

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32 days and counting, still no Scorpion!
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[Islander]

I was 12, and mine was a spike blacktail buck with a .22 lr head shot on my parents acreage on Vancouver Island. No one in my immediate family hunts, but dad likes his guns and got me shooting quite young. From there, I just developed my own predatorial instincts on many unfortunate squirrels, birds, rabbits, etc. Looking back, that buck was far from a legal kill, , but I see it as a stepping stone that I'm glad I hopped across. Every kill since has been 100% by the book, and it'll stay that way. I'm just glad that I'll be able to get my stepson started on the right foot.

[aulrich]

It was a black bear @ 17 for me, first deer was a spike buck later that year

[bruceba]

21 and that was 29 yrs ago. Since that first I've put many more on the ground and let many more walk on.

[James M]

13. Spike whitetail buck at 140 yards with a single shot 30-30.

[shootermcgavin]

I shot my first deer this fall at 21.... I hunted the previous 2 seasons but I waited for bigger bucks and they never came... Didn't want to shoot a doe. Shot it with my dad, my best friend and hunting partner.

Been shootin small game since i was a kid.

[gunman300]

I was 30. I only ever hunted birds( ducks, geese partridge) until I moved to alberta from ontario. I guy I worked with asked me to go, so off we went. I got a doe in 318 off the trunk road. Been hooked ever since. Gotten at least one every year since then. Been here 8 years now. Hey splitbrow. That is one sweet deer you got there.

[Big Buff]

I was 12 when I shot my first Blesbuck with a Bruno .308 at 145 yards.

[catnthehat]

Originally Posted by Dick284

21 believe it or not.


Any comments about my hair or the glasses, and I'll hunt ya down like the dog you are.

I think Todbartell already mentioned about the Elvis wanting the his glasses back! ( couldn't resist)
Cat
I was 12 I think, may hve been 13.
Cat

[RUM]

14 - whitetail doe. First deer with my first bow, Jennings Black Lightning.

Dad still figures he saved me.... We were both in a built tree stand and I guess after the shot he had to grab me by the collar cuz I was planning on "walking" off to go have a look! Ha, don't really remember, but I'm sure I could have floated down at that point anyway

[Jamie]

Well.. I am not sure where everyone is from, but I find it kind of different that since you had to be 14 to legally shoot a deer that there are so many people that took a deer at age 12.

Not that I have a problem with it, I just find it different.
Obviously a 12 year old can handle that situation.. Good change in the rules!

Jamie

[Waxy]

I was 12, and I remember it like it was yesterday. Rolling hills and poplar bluffs south of Indian Head, SK. (The minimum age in SK is 12 Jamie.) Nice white tail doe, shot through the "boiler room" with a trusty old .303 British.

It is a truly life altering experience IMHO, on many levels, one of very few that profound.

Waxy

[LB 270]

Went out with my dad and my brother a few times in my early teens but we never connected. I was 25 and I got a button buck, he was dumb enough to stand still until I drew a bead on him. Used a borrowed .308 lever. That was 13 years ago. Time flies. My son will be 11 next season and he is itching for the season after that. Loves the whole experience (even getting up at 4 a.m.)

[savagewsm]

15. And very memorable. I had hunted very hard the previous years and got nothing. On that day there was a janitors strike at school and we got the day off. My uncle took me and my cousin out that day and both me and my cousin got our first mulie bucks.

Love those unions

[Rob Miskosky]

I was 21-years-old, some 26 years ago. Since then I have shot a deer or more every single season except one, and that was last year. Decided I was going to hold out for the big one no matter what. Did, and went home with tag soup. The year before I'd filled my tag and of course, while checking one of my trail cameras a wall-hanger stepped out less than 100-yards away. And me with no tag.

[catnthehat]

Originally Posted by Tundra Monkey

Still no deer in this kids past (38 now).....hunter host anyone???

Merry Christmas

tm

Is it possible to trade hunts up there?
Cat

[riffer]

I got my first deer at 14, it was a young mule doe.

[buckfever]

i was 14, 2 shot kill (my dad shoot him in the back of the head, busted the scull cap ) shott in the neck at 15yrds, runnin like thiers no tommoro. oh and it was my biggest wt buck to date a whole 10 inchs(if that)

[Poacher Boy]

whitetail doe at 15

[BigRackLover]

15 - buck with .308
25 - buck with compound bow

Nice big 4 pointer. I was 13 and we had a ol chev pick-up with the old "3 on the tree" transmission, I was so friggin excited, I burnt the clutch out driving to pick up the deer. Dad didn't care at the time.

[duffy4]

I believe I was 29 when I shot my first deer. It was a young buck and with a bow. I still have his antlers on the skull hanging on the wall in the garadge with a lot of other bucks and critters.

I had shot a moose a couple bears and an antelope before that with rifles. And a pile of birds.

Robin in Rocky

[fishnamed]

I was 18. My second hunting season, still have the scar from being Waaaaaaaaaay to close to my scope. Buckfever and all. Second deer of my life is still my biggest, but the first one is by far the best memory.

[BigRackLover]

Originally Posted by willy11

Nice big 4 pointer. I was 13 and we had a ol chev pick-up with the old "3 on the tree" transmission, I was so friggin excited, I burnt the clutch out driving to pick up the deer. Dad didn't care at the time.

classic just classic. especially the 3 on the tree part.

[Albertabowhunter]

Only bird hunted until I was 28. Then I bought a bow and shot my first doe on the third day of the season... Now I can never decide what to go for. geese or deer, ducks or moose.... grouse or elk.... Just gotta hate living in Alberta never a thing to do...

[Ray]

I was 37. I got a whitetail doe. My son (14 at the time) got his first deer on the same trip, a 4 point whitetail. We are both hooked for sure. Next season my youngest (he's doing the online hunter education course right now) hopes to get his first.