Step up your Dad game boys..
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Kind of fun timing for this thread. Friday afternoon was daddy daughter time. We played with toilet paper rolls, dumped water on each-others head depending on who won uno, ate way too much ice cream, and danced around the house blasting music.
I got the āthis was the best nightā before bed.ā
Saturday I coached her soccer team and we won. Got an huge hug after she scored the game winning goal.
I guess I need to pull out my checkbook and step my game up. Iām slacking.
Free stuff just isnāt cutting it.
I got the āthis was the best nightā before bed.ā
Saturday I coached her soccer team and we won. Got an huge hug after she scored the game winning goal.
I guess I need to pull out my checkbook and step my game up. Iām slacking.
Free stuff just isnāt cutting it.
Don't bet on it. Sounds like you're doing just fine!
elkduds
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Impressed by the (+) turn this thread has taken. The great majority are members here because someone took a kid hunting over and over again. The few that didn't get that mentoring still have the opportunity to be that mentor.
SaskHunter
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What an utter failure!
I bet he did it all on his own too? What a poor sucker!
SaskHunter
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Yep, just like Michigan public land...after EHD.
So which one do you want to shoot? Somehow picking out a buck by name off a scorecard just rubs fur wrong way for me. Then again, I am bald and can't flex like that anymore.
Am I jealous? Not one bit. If this was open range, no doubt I would have different opinion. High fence hunting is not for me but for some it works for them. Everyone has a different boat to float.
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I don't know which is worst; picking a high fence buck out of a pamflet or giving names to individual bucks?!?!
Eitherway, it's all f'ing cringe!
You have come a long way Mr. Martin. Thanks for what you do especially behind the scenes. mtmuley12 years old. Sitting in a freshly picked cornfield after school. Also with Dadās 12 gauge 870 with a front bead. I had 3 slugs and one 00 buckshot for total ammunition. Decided a slug/buckshot/slug was the best shot sequence for the occasion.
Granddad was just finishing up the last rows at the other end of the field when a fawn doe came slipping through the woods. She stopped at 40 yards and I sailed a slug somewhere in her vicinity. A couple hops and another look back at 50. Buckshot flew and another Hail Mary slug as she ran out of range. Then she stopped and stood for a while flicking her tail and bedded down. Ten minutes later she put her head down and kicked her last.
One buckshot pellet to the liver secured my first deer. I had never seen a deer field dressed only heard Dad describe it. My 2ā folding Klein pocket knife and I made an incredible mess as I opened up her belly and started cutting out handfuls of gutsā¦. Got it done and was the proudest boy in the Shenandoah Valley that afternoon.
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Everyone knows that the rack size of a captive raised animal is the ultimate validation of life accomplishment.
My one regret as a father is that I didnāt take my kids to Texas and do this as a rite of passage. Theirs lives would have been so much better and they could have attached the horns of their conquest to the grill of their first vehicle to remind themselves and the world that my Dad game is on point and they are awesome.
I e always equated all that hunting to shooting a cow in a pasture, and that picture literally shows that. Absolute insanity. Honestly those people may need to be checked out mentally for shooting that literal cow and the people who raised it and sold the hunt should be tarred and feathered.
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My 12 yr old son's first "alone" bow hunt when he was 12 is a forever memory on public land. He was mature and had lots of experience with me. Also really good shot with bow. He had Browning youth bow name escapes me but it was at 42#'s. He won a lot of youth 3D shoots with it. I set him up in a small "island" of trees maybe 30 yds across in middle of field. He was not happy cause he couldn't believe anything would be close to him. I had scouted this spot several times and it was crazy how deer were drawn to it. About 45 min before last legal light, big group of does worked over to the island. I am about 100yds away tucked under a big shrub watching with binos. As the deer worked in I am wondering does he see them. Then I see nice size doe hit warp speed out of there and then I hear son screaming "Dad! I GOT her!!!" I hustle over and same time yelling back laughing "quiet"!!! We tracked her to edge of swamp and barely made it to edge. He took a shot angle that he knew wasn't greatest but he told me he felt at 15yds he could make it. Slight quartering in, just behind shoulder, arrow went fill length of doe exiting out opposite hind quarter. This was out of 42# youth compound, 1816 Gamegetter with 85gr Thunderhead. Amazing penetration! Awesome blood trail. My son is now 43 and he still brings up this hunt as one of the greatest hunts he ever had. He is a top notch bowhunter now with quite a few 130-160" bucks under belt. But yet a flathead still ranks up there with him. Me? It is by FAR the greatest hunt I was ever part of in my life. Maybe a granddaughter might change that?
Nameless Range
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In my head, I hear Jim Posewitz's quote about captive big game farms, of which new ones are banned in Montana and have been for 25 years, when I see a lot of hunting related stuff.
āThe worst crime is that it prostitutes and trivializes both hunting and wild game animals.ā
The two day Youth season in Montana is in less than two weeks. The only I guarantees I have for my son are hiking mountains regardless of weather, and greasy food - which happen to be the only two things I can guarantee myself.
āThe worst crime is that it prostitutes and trivializes both hunting and wild game animals.ā
The two day Youth season in Montana is in less than two weeks. The only I guarantees I have for my son are hiking mountains regardless of weather, and greasy food - which happen to be the only two things I can guarantee myself.
12 years old. Sitting in a freshly picked cornfield after school. Also with Dadās 12 gauge 870 with a front bead. I had 3 slugs and one 00 buckshot for total ammunition. Decided a slug/buckshot/slug was the best shot sequence for the occasion.
Granddad was just finishing up the last rows at the other end of the field when a fawn doe came slipping through the woods. She stopped at 40 yards and I sailed a slug somewhere in her vicinity. A couple hops and another look back at 50. Buckshot flew and another Hail Mary slug as she ran out of range. Then she stopped and stood for a while flicking her tail and bedded down. Ten minutes later she put her head down and kicked her last.
One buckshot pellet to the liver secured my first deer. I had never seen a deer field dressed only heard Dad describe it. My 2ā folding Klein pocket knife and I made an incredible mess as I opened up her belly and started cutting out handfuls of gutsā¦
Twelve years old, fifty seven years ago and I still remember it like yesterday. I was using my Grandfather's 16 gauge Stevens side by side. This was the start of me being a Hunt Kook, wouldn't trade that memory for no big buck.
WildWill
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This is awesome! Also makes your avatar pic so much better.
Deer #1 and 2 when i was a pup. Not only did my dad not let me kill a 50 pointer, he didnāt even clean the beer cans out of the back of his pickup.
25 years later my son killed his first one. Still not a 50 pointer, but Iām obviously a 4X better father than my dad. Plus I cleaned the beer cans out of my truck.
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JV842
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When I worked at my uncleās āwild gameā processing plant, we had a customer call, they had a client who shot a Asian water buffalo w his bow and asked if we could come pick it up. We showed up w the flat bed and a wench. Literally had to move the other ones away by slapping them on the ass so we could back up and load the ātrophy of a lifetimeā
WildWill
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Far from my first but one of my favorites. My little cousins had been begging me and my brother to take them hunting sense their dad didn't hunt. We built a giant brush blind/fort from burlap, limbs, and zip ties. That night we all stayed at grandma's so all we'd have to do is walk out the backdoor in the morning to be alone on our own 200 acre piece of heaven. It was hard to get them boys to bed but they got up easy enough. We climbed in our limb fort with plastic deck chairs for seats for me and my brother and the boys just sat on the ground. Boredom overtook them soon after sunrise and they began moving about and making quiet a bit of sound. Suddenly a young 8 point showed up that appeared very interested in the rustling coming from inside the blind. He began heading our way with a curious look on his face. My brother got the boys up where they could see the buck. With all the movement the buck stopped still staring us down at about 50 yards away. I took aim with my dad's model 94 30-30 and dropped him. I was 14 my brother 15 and my cousins 5 and 7. When I think about that today as a father it's a bit wild and I don't know that I'd be letting my young one go out with armed teenagers. But that's just how we grew up and our parents grew up. Kinda sad that would probably get CPS called on you for that these days. Maybe it's for the best then again maybe it's not.
antlerradar
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Dad and mom game, My second buck, and a step up from the first.
SaskHunter
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Look at all you losers in here with your "free-range" animals.
Bunch of commies with your "organic harvest"! Y'all should kill GMOcomically chemically enhanced deer like real men. Filthy f<n reds!
If Jesus walked the world today, he'd hunt high-fenced ranches in Texas, Yee-haw!!!
Bunch of commies with your "organic harvest"! Y'all should kill GMO
If Jesus walked the world today, he'd hunt high-fenced ranches in Texas, Yee-haw!!!
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