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| View Poll Results: What is the first game animal you harvested? | |||
| squirrel |
   
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15 | 42.86% |
| rabbit |
  
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8 | 22.86% |
| deer |
  
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4 | 11.43% |
| pheasant |
  
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3 | 8.57% |
| quail |
  
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0 | 0% |
| grouse (ruffed, sharptail, ect) |
  
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1 | 2.86% |
| waterfowl (duck/goose) |
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1 | 2.86% |
| woodcock |
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0 | 0% |
| predator/fur harvester (coyote, coon, fox, ect) |
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0 | 0% |
| other |
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3 | 8.57% |
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#1
11-09-2010, 12:50 PM
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First game animal?
What is the first "game animal" that you ever shot? I kinda have a feeling where most of this will land, but I'm kinda curious.
Mine was a ruffed grouse, when I was 14.
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11-09-2010, 09:12 PM
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Mine was a dove (i.e., other) when I was about 9 years old. A full limit the next year when I got to use a 12 gauge and my first 2 pheasants that same fall with the 12 gauge.
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11-10-2010, 12:14 AM
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I guess it depends on your definition of game animal. Where I came from no one ate squirrel, rabbits were just for gloves. But my first big game animal was a yearling mule deer when I was 16.
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11-10-2010, 09:02 AM
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Canada goose when I was 12.
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11-10-2010, 04:31 PM
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Squirrel with my good ol' .22LR when I was around 11 or 12. We ate it of course. I don't see 'elk' on the list, I guess that would be 'other'. I have a friend that I taught to hunt whose first bagged game was a bull elk. I started little and worked up but he just started big....
Reminds me of folks with first motorcycles nowadays, but that's something for another topic.... Mike
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11-10-2010, 05:26 PM
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Squirrel here too. I was probably about 12 yrs. old. Seems like I read somewhere back in antiquity that most hunters start out with them and finish up with them.
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11-10-2010, 07:32 PM
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Squirrel with my grandpa's 32 rolling block at age 10.
jplonghunter
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#10
11-10-2010, 08:52 PM
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My first game animal taken was a pheasant when I was 10 yrs. old. Had a brand spanking new model 37 winchester .410. Still shootin pheasants, but have upgraded to a 20 ga.
 This is a great thread. Nice memories.
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#12
11-16-2010, 09:00 AM
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My first was the "Prince Of The Treetops" too. Used my first shotgun, a Noble 20 gauge pump (still at Dad's home). I quickly added dove and ducks to my early list. And the odd fat Robin and giant Woodpecker - back when you wouldn't get thrown in prison for shooting them. A fat Robin is better than quail and most doves....... Dad said in the Great Depression, that was a staple for the poor folks.
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#13
11-16-2010, 04:46 PM
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Squirrel, and yea we ate 'em too...
GoodOlBoy
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#14
11-16-2010, 07:26 PM
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squirrel
actually #1 was a red squirrel. Shoulder shot that my dad said was impossible at that distance
Taken with my first rifle - Sheridan Blue Streak.. still have it 40+ years later.,......still shoots great then came rabbits, phez (remember when MI had those!?) and my first woodcock shot on the wing with a 22 (lucky shot)
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