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<blockquote data-quote="Straight Shooter" data-source="post: 2947535" data-attributes="member: 42638"><p>I started carrying a 20 gauge shotgun when I was 9 years old. Graduated to a 12 gauge semi when I was 12. Hunted alongside my dad and his friends every weekend. And a lot of times I could beat them on the draw. Hunted grouse, huns, pheasants, ducks, and geese. My dad wasn't a big game hunter so I learned to hunt whitetail with my friends. I borrowed a rifle from one of my dad's friends until I got to college. My first 4 whitetails were killed with 5 shots and one of those shots was a finishing shot. Pretty economical hunting. We could start hunting right from the edge of town. Gas was cheap, we butchered the deer ourselves so it was worthwhile and economical. Nowadays if you take what you pay for licenses, ammo, new rifles, optics, rangefinders, and GAS I could take that money and buy a whole beef or two. As said before it is in our genes. It is natural to want to get back to the earth. The cities have most of the jobs, but most people want to get away from the cities and have a little more of a rural lifestyle. And you see that happening everyday as people move out west or find a more country lifestyle if they are back east. It is the way we were "designed." Now days I am just comfortable sitting quietly on a hillside or mountainside with my binocs watching nature. It's good for the soul. And if I don't get anything it is no big deal or a life and death situation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Straight Shooter, post: 2947535, member: 42638"] I started carrying a 20 gauge shotgun when I was 9 years old. Graduated to a 12 gauge semi when I was 12. Hunted alongside my dad and his friends every weekend. And a lot of times I could beat them on the draw. Hunted grouse, huns, pheasants, ducks, and geese. My dad wasn't a big game hunter so I learned to hunt whitetail with my friends. I borrowed a rifle from one of my dad's friends until I got to college. My first 4 whitetails were killed with 5 shots and one of those shots was a finishing shot. Pretty economical hunting. We could start hunting right from the edge of town. Gas was cheap, we butchered the deer ourselves so it was worthwhile and economical. Nowadays if you take what you pay for licenses, ammo, new rifles, optics, rangefinders, and GAS I could take that money and buy a whole beef or two. As said before it is in our genes. It is natural to want to get back to the earth. The cities have most of the jobs, but most people want to get away from the cities and have a little more of a rural lifestyle. And you see that happening everyday as people move out west or find a more country lifestyle if they are back east. It is the way we were "designed." Now days I am just comfortable sitting quietly on a hillside or mountainside with my binocs watching nature. It's good for the soul. And if I don't get anything it is no big deal or a life and death situation. [/QUOTE]
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