re: Outdoor Board Demographics and maybe a little sappiness

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Born - NOLA
Raised - Mandeville
Since '05 - Baton Rouge

Italian/Austrian descent

First Hunt - 10 years old with my dad. Killed 1 um..er commorant, yeah that's the right term for it! 20 gauge crack barrel. I got kicked off my bucket

First Deer - 13 ish years old with my dad in Petal, MS .270 at dusk. Spike

First trophy buck - 15-16 2003 with a buddy in Madisonville, LA 12 point scored 135 ish

Duck/Deer hunted my entire childhood until LSU, when I had to pretty much give it up due to athletic obligations.

I hunted mostly with my cousins and friends. We hunted by ourselves pretty much 90% of the time from the age of 13 on. When there was an adult around it was usually my uncle. We hunted everything from deer/ducks/suirrels/doves/rabbits/raccoons/alligators/frogs/snakes/nutria/bass/turtles pretty much anything we could kill

I never made a hunt with my powpow and never will now , he gave it up years ago. I rarely made a hunt with my pow as he enjoyed working much more than anything else. Although I did hear stories about my powpow and his NOLA cop brother taking my pow as a tyke down Chef Menteur Hwy to kill rabbits with a .22 out the window of their station wagon at night.

I fished my entire life specks/reds/flounder. In high school I got real big into offshore fishing (bluewater mostly). Which I enjoy the most. My favorite activity was always deer hunting, and marlin fishing is a lot more like hunting a big whitetail than loading an ice chest with specks. Another uncle got a 60' Hatteras that I'd spend May-July on in Venice/Grand Isle/Port Aransas every year. Had to pretty much give that up for LSU as well.

I have just got back hard into it after grad school. I am now a bow hunting/silent assassin killing machine and duck searcher, since I am pretty bad at finding the basterds