Best hunting memory thread

[Alan]

We’ve all got that one hunt we still think about years later. It could be your first deer or a funny moment. Whatever it is, drop your best hunting memory here, let’s hear the ones that stuck with you.

 

[WIlliams_shoots]

One time, a doe walked right under where I was standing. I didn't breathe, I focused and when I finally shot, the doe barely got away.

 

[Dstegjas]

Well being almost 70 I suppose I have a few good memories of hunting. The one that sticks out the most in my mind was when my buddy and I were pheasant hunting up in Delaware Ohio. These birds are released every year so you can imagine the amount of hunters that were there. We both had Brittany’s back then. So we would hang back and let the crowds go through first. With our dogs we would find the ones they walked right by. It wasn’t particularly cold that day and the birds were not sitting tight. So it wasn’t unusual for them to run on the dogs. We were just coming to the end of one of the fields and there were three hunters standing around talking over in the corner. One of them was a young boy that more then likely was on his first for second hunt. He wasn’t very old anyway. They had their guns leaning against the corner fence post. My Brittany had a habit of ranging out a bit when he couldn’t find the bird he was on the trail of. That day he ran right over by the boy and went on point. He couldn’t have been more than 20’ from him. I told him to get ready, there was a bird there. Sure enough when I walked up on him there was a big old rooster that flew out of the fence line. He shot and got him with one shot. What happened next is what impressed me the most. This young man ran over and picked up the bird and brought it over to me. I told him to put it in your vest, he’s your bird you shot him. Clearly he was very excited. It could have been his first pheasant or maybe he never hunted behind a dog before. I really don’t remember the conversation we had with the hunters afterwards. What impressed me the most was that he offered the bird to me because it was my dog that found it. I hope he is still hunting and that he remembers that day. It was over 30 years ago and I certainly remember it.

 

[wapakfred]

Too many to recap but one that keeps coming to mind is my first rabbit hunt, I think I was 12. My dad and several of his friends allowed me to tag along with them. I had my new Winchester model 37 single shot break action in 20 gauge. I had strayed a little sideways from the group as we were crossing a corn field looking for rabbits in the stubble when I jumped one. I shot and missed, reloaded, shot again and missed, reloaded shot again and had my rabbit. When I proudly walked back to my dad to show him my prize I heard one his friends say "That sounded like he had a pump gun the shots were so fast". I di become a much better shot later in life.