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Hey everyone,
I haven’t been around here in a few years, I stopped hunting back in 2016 after losing both of the properties I hunted due to the older folks who owned them selling them off and moving down south. I grew up around hunting, my uncle in West Virginia took me out squirrel hunting a few times as a kid and I was always fascinated with it. At 18 I bought my first bow from MC sports were I worked and was hooked on archery. I went on a few hunts over the next couple years but never saw a deer.
Fast forward to the age of 25 my brother in law (sisters husband) invited me to hunt with him during gun season down in killbuck, I got my first deer! A friend of his family did a European mount for me and it still hangs proudly in my living room! The next year I hunted his grandmas property in columbia station with my bow and scored two does over the season with a bow. I Looked up all the articles I could find on butchering a deer and handled it all myself. By far the best steaks I’ve ever tasted knowing that I harvested the meat, butchered it up, and cooked it all by myself(I’ll also give credit to my boss since he gave me the spices). I went down to killbuck for gun but it snowed so heavy I could barely see 15 feet in front of me.
The following year my brother in law and I went goose hunting down in kill buck when we got some bad news, his aunt was selling the property and we wouldn’t be able to come down for gun this year. I thought to myself “Man, this sucks but at least I can still hunt grandma property”. I didn’t take a deer this year, I had a few opportunities but I passed on the does hoping they would make their way to my boss who was up in a tree on the other side of the property. I only had one shot at a buck and I wasn’t super comfortable with the distance he was at so I decided to let him pass.
The following summer his grandma called me and she told me she sold her property in Columbia station to a neighbor who is extremely anti-hunting. Welp, there goes all my fun right? I ended up selling my bow and my slug gun at the end of the year thinking this was the end of it.
This bring us to this year. My future father in law asked me to go on a pheasant hunt with him the day after thanksgiving. Just the thought of hunting again and I’m hooked. My fiancé and I are getting married in June so money’s a bit tight, but I have a few dollars saved up in going to look into getting a new slug gun(and sneak it in while she’s at work) and finding some property to hunt. I have no idea where to begin but I may try some public land.
I’m glad this place is still thriving. Everyone here as always been great I’m hoping to stick around this time. The itch is bad and I think it’s getting infected.
I haven’t been around here in a few years, I stopped hunting back in 2016 after losing both of the properties I hunted due to the older folks who owned them selling them off and moving down south. I grew up around hunting, my uncle in West Virginia took me out squirrel hunting a few times as a kid and I was always fascinated with it. At 18 I bought my first bow from MC sports were I worked and was hooked on archery. I went on a few hunts over the next couple years but never saw a deer.
Fast forward to the age of 25 my brother in law (sisters husband) invited me to hunt with him during gun season down in killbuck, I got my first deer! A friend of his family did a European mount for me and it still hangs proudly in my living room! The next year I hunted his grandmas property in columbia station with my bow and scored two does over the season with a bow. I Looked up all the articles I could find on butchering a deer and handled it all myself. By far the best steaks I’ve ever tasted knowing that I harvested the meat, butchered it up, and cooked it all by myself(I’ll also give credit to my boss since he gave me the spices). I went down to killbuck for gun but it snowed so heavy I could barely see 15 feet in front of me.
The following year my brother in law and I went goose hunting down in kill buck when we got some bad news, his aunt was selling the property and we wouldn’t be able to come down for gun this year. I thought to myself “Man, this sucks but at least I can still hunt grandma property”. I didn’t take a deer this year, I had a few opportunities but I passed on the does hoping they would make their way to my boss who was up in a tree on the other side of the property. I only had one shot at a buck and I wasn’t super comfortable with the distance he was at so I decided to let him pass.
The following summer his grandma called me and she told me she sold her property in Columbia station to a neighbor who is extremely anti-hunting. Welp, there goes all my fun right? I ended up selling my bow and my slug gun at the end of the year thinking this was the end of it.
This bring us to this year. My future father in law asked me to go on a pheasant hunt with him the day after thanksgiving. Just the thought of hunting again and I’m hooked. My fiancé and I are getting married in June so money’s a bit tight, but I have a few dollars saved up in going to look into getting a new slug gun(and sneak it in while she’s at work) and finding some property to hunt. I have no idea where to begin but I may try some public land.
I’m glad this place is still thriving. Everyone here as always been great I’m hoping to stick around this time. The itch is bad and I think it’s getting infected.
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