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Pinman
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To the new hunters - Why?...
Pinman
Posts: 3,758 Captain
What makes you want to go hunting? What spurred you to post here? Or even if you havnt posted respond why you want to go hunting.
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Ended up listening to a Joe Rogan podcast with the guys from Kuiu just about a year ago. The guys were much different than the kinda "Bubba" hunters I grew up with. I ended up picking up a bow shortly after. Have practiced like crazy since. Post here because public land is hard to figure out. It's not like family or friends land where things have been in place forever and you know where to go.
It's a new challenge and some what of a back to my roots sort of thing.
I think the challenge of learning a skill that is 100% new to me, on my own is a huge draw. The idea of providing my own meals is huge as well. When I cook always strive for quality and fresh ingredients, and you can't get higher quality/fresher than game meat from what I have tasted.
I have perused Florida Sportsman for a few years for fishing reports and hoped that the hunting community here would be as helpful and friendly as the fishing community.
Pretty much how I started. Don't believe anything in the hunting magazines. Find some public land which should be a lot up there and get a tree stand or two and start sitting. If you want to bow hunt, bow shops can be good places to get good information about hunting. Once you can see stuff bowhunting it's all down hill from there. Also, many places have anterless open to harvest during bow season.
Note: hunting with good quality people makes the experience so much better
Most WMA's allow you to shoot does during their archery season. There are some, however, that do not so double check just to be sure. Joining the archery club is a great idea. That type of networking will be the best thing for trying to gain knowledge though other people and you may luck out and get invited to be someone's guest on a quota hunt.
Family and friends make a huge difference growing up. I am now 58 and I don't remember a time in my life when hunting was not a big deal. Even when all I carried was a bb gun I was hooked.
Growing up in Belle Glade ALL of my friends hunted. I can recall Monday mornings everyone checking out what the other one shot. Hunting and Fishing is what we did all the time. In an environment like this it is easy to get hooked on the sport.
What made it 10000 x easier back then was the 100,000 s of acres that were open and getting permission was not an issue. Today not so much.
For all you younguns out there keep plugging away it is worth it.
I think the greatest day hunting will be when my son shoots his first deer. I can't imagine a better trip than that. Hoping this is the year. and he gets one. Last year was his first actual season with a rifle so i knew the odds were long. This year much better prepared.
I shot my first deer in 1974 I had been hunting with a rifle since 1969 make sure your son knows it is not about the kill. I was so addicted to hunting that killing a deer was secondary to the rest of the experience.
Make sure he feels challenged and make his first kill a BIG deal call his MOM and Granps and tell them to really blow it up make him feel like he just accomplished a BIG deal which he did. Not different from training a puppy keep em hungry.
Osceola and camp blanding. I don't know where you live but if Osceola was close since its such a huge area I'd focus my attention there. The place that is closest and affords the most opportunity to hunt and scout is better. Often better to focus on one place and get to know it well when you are starting. Then once you've had success it is easier to learn new places.
Caught many a Speck off the Pahokee Pier..Them were some Poor surrounds back then , Dirt Farmers and **** Field Hands.
I'm about as far removed from what you'd expect as a hunter...female from an immigrant family, first generation american, nobody whatsoever related to me hunts and actually they see it as rather pointless. Add to that being a millenial and I'm probably not who Cabela's expects to walk in through the door --that said, I do love the store
I feel like people in my generation are remarkably entitled and spoiled yet we lack such basic skills that it leaves me bewildered. It isn't just that we tend to be made up of people who can't orient a map or so much as find their own street without GPS, but we struggle with real conversation, we hide behind the internet and memes.
Which has all been a great inspiration for me to get my hands in the earth so to speak and find those roots which I think many of us have...to be out there and do what we humans evolved to do. It isn't readily available to us now except for a few indigeious people still living in the old ways. So I have to go find it and that means gardening, growing food, shooting, camping, hiking, fitness, and new for me....hunting. 10000 years of civilization can't breed out the true nature of our species which is to be survivors and problem solvers which means knowing the land and how to live off it. I may not be able to live off the land but I want to know that I can use tools to hunt game. In fact, I think I most look forward to stalking animals and working hard to get that first rabbit or what have you, and then have it for dinner. There's something that I imagine will be very satisfying and primal about that.
Just my thoughts!
He loves getting out there and scouting, prepping, mostly I think he loves time with the old man. Last year he learned a valuable lesson. he was sitting in a stand, he looked down (at his phone) for a moment, looked up just in time to see a fat 6-8 pt walk off.
TRT I fished many a cold night on that pier. Yes Belle Glade Pahokee and Canal Point is not Beverly Hills but to a young boy that loved to hunt n fish it was heaven.
Elle I was thing of you and the others that have posted here over the last year or so asking about going hunting. I want to hear from the ones who have never been yet. What sparked you to have the desire to pursue game? Was it a TV show? If so what kind? or was it a book? Stories you read here? What was the spark?
Lots of things inspired me to try this...
the Steven Rinella show and hearing the way he thinks of hunting alongside those amazing views and places.
This sense of being stuck inside surrounded by gadgets that seem to end up with half the populace being mesmerized by their social media..
And my generation is notorious for it too.
Lastly a sense of wanting to be more self sufficient and challenging myself. I'm grateful for all I have but I actually believe depriving yourself of some of it occasionally makes you appreciate it more. That's why getting up at 5 am in the cold to go into the dark and set up for fora hunt is what I'll be doing when the season starts. And yeah, I'll love the comfort of home even more afterwards.
No one could have said it any better!
And when a buddy asks "hey can i run up there with you and check the place out" in November, yeah...no. If you didn't put in the time in August, you're not reaping the rewards in the rut.
we do **** and moan, but i wouldn't have it any other way. It's nice to get away and be outside.
Did that same thing last weekend and that's exactly what I told my buddys. It worked, got 4 guys to go up with me to work.:rotflmao
nice!
Steve Rinella's books and show were what finally got me to get off my *** and get a license and apply for quotas. I have my first hunt coming up on 9/16 at 3 Lakes and I couldn't be more excited.
Have you been scouting? Deer stands hung yet?
Just don't eat anything raw. He's about killed his guys more than once with bad decisions.