re: How does one "start" hunting?

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Good god, am I looking into the mirror? This is me to a t, except I do have some folks that I can deer hunt with - but I'd rather go on my own so I don't ruin it for everyone else.

I hunt alligator, hogs, and ducks - but as far as rifles go, I have an AK47, AR, British 303, etc...nothing considered deer rifle.

I leased a couple hundred acres, built a deer blind and will be using my AK this weekend when rifle season opens. I'm using iron sights.

You tube helped a lot!

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I leased a couple hundred acres, built a deer blind and will be using my AK this weekend when rifle season opens. I'm using iron sights.

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If you're gonna do all that at least get a used rifle with decent glass

Right there with you. All the men in my family fished, but not one of them hunted. Oddly enough, that was in North Arkansas which is loaded with big deer.

The last 4 or 5 years, I started getting excited around the start of deer season because all the dudes I worked with hunted. Two years ago, I turned 40 and decided I was going to go deer hunting. I spent several months researching rifles and finally settled in a Weatherby .257. I bought me a decent scope and spent the rest of that year learning how to shoot my rifle well.

I have a buddy that has a farm that butts up to the Arkansas river. He told me I could hunt there and already had a nice covered ladder stand and nobody hunted out there. So at 41, I killed a deer on my first hunt. I had thrown out some acorns and sugar beets the day before and that morning a nice doe walked out broadside about 70 yards from the stand. I raised that rifle, but my hands were shaking like crazy. I lowered the rifle and took a few big breaths and then I aimed again and drilled her. It was a nice clean lung shot. She didn't run 20 yards before she laid down and bled out. My buddy come down with his ATV and helped me pick up my deer and then helped me clean it.

Such a great day and I only wish I had found hunting when I was a kid. I got some funny looks taking Hunter's Education with a bunch of kids, but it was well worth that little embarassment.

Simple is fine; I've shot them walking, sitting on the ground (stool optional), up a deerstand. Just get in the woods with a gun and enjoy.

You might learn a lot starting with squirels or rabbits first. Just bring buckshot in case you see deer sign.

Just wondering, where do you live?

Shut the truck door verrrry quietly.

Yea I won’t argue with that. We’re definitely programmed to kill and fight and conquer. Put yourself in a situation where you’re trying to kill something that’s fighting back and you turn into an animal.

I’ve been saying for years that the best way to solve all this disgruntled employee shite at work is to put a boxing ring in the back and let people go back there and beat the shite out of each other every now and the.

Most hunter that I know started by plunking small birds off the telephone wires with a pump pellet gun, then moved up to shooting tires in the woods with .22. When they seemed old enough, some older person took them on a hunt.

When adults "start," it usually involves a trip to Orvis to drop a couple thousand dollars on fancy hunting clothes, followed by a couple thousand more on a show quality gun.