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I'm 38 and have been at it since I was 9. I've always fished but that's when I got my first bob gun and I still have it. Second was a New England single shot 20 that has killed more game than I can count. I love taking others and sharing the experience more than anything.

I won't speak for myself but I took my Dad on a partner moose hunt when he was 90. He said he started shooting sharptail on the farm when he was about 10 so that would make it 80 yrs. My Dad's 93 and now to frail to hold a gun.

Started hunting rabbits with beagles when I was 8. My father would wait till the dogs started a rabbit then put me on a runway and hand me his gun. When I turned 14 I was old enough for an "official" hunting license and could legally carry a gun. That was the start of my bird hunting career. Opening day of pheasant season was a school holiday as far as my father was concerned. No matter where I may have been in the world I've always found a way to go hunting. This season will be 62 years with out missing a season.

Dennis

This year will be my 52nd season actually hunting, 54th if you count the two I trailed my dad around before I could buy a license and shoot game. Took my first pheasant with my father's Stevens Springfield 16 gauge sxs that first year. Still have both the gun and a sharp, clear memory of an experience that gave me lasting interests in both hunting birds and sxs shotguns.

I sure miss hunting with my father and just plain miss him. He'll have been gone 7 years later this month.

My first PA license was A434, 1958. This season will be my 60th. I may have had a MD 1957 license, which would make this year my 61st.

I started 60 years ago, with my brothercousin, on land our greatgrandfather chopped out of the woods, making cotton fields from it. Except for a couple adventures in South East Asia and Europe, I've hunted there ever since. I started off with a single shot 22 bolt action, bought through the mail, from Sears, with money I earned by answering the phone for a local business man. I haven't looked back.
Mike

Started with a Daisy pump bb gun when I was about 9. Got my first "real" gun, a Stevens clip fed bolt action 410 when I was 11. My first game with that gun was during an organized fox hunt where about twenty hunters would show up. 5 hunters would walk into a section from each side. Whatever was in that section had to pass by one of the shotgun carrying hunters. I had a chance at a red fox running town a hedge row [osage orange] toward me. I shot when he was maybe 30 yards from me and he rolled. The fox had three broken legs. I still can't figure out how that 410 downed the fox in that manner. We had a bounty on fox [$2.00 ] if you brought in the ears to the court house, but the fox belonged to the club, and I got nothing. They sold the hide , too, but put on a nice feed at the end of the year. I think that this year is my 63rd.

67 seasons and boy am I getting old! Bobby

In 1958 when I was 10 I got a Remington .22 from my parents for Christmas and hunted (illegally) the next day with it. Got my first shotgun when I was 12 and got my first license that year too. So I guess it will be 59 years this fall since I first started hunting. Tagged along for a few years before I turned 10.

Wow! It's clear we're a bunch of old farts!

I think 62 since I first killed a game bird or animal. More like maybe 60 since I shot my first rooster on the wing and became a real fan of wingshooting. Missed a couple in the middle there when I was living in DC and couldn't get away during hunting season. Was lucky on my overseas posting: Barbary partridge and coturnix quail in Morocco. Came home with my first bird dog: a Brittany that only understood French.