Clintos1980
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- Dec 17, 2024
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Hello Everyone.
Glad to be here on Hunt Talk. I'm a family man with a wife and 2 children and we live in Middle TN. I'm also pretty new to hunting. I'm 44 now and started hunting when I was 40. My father never really did it, so I didn't have anyone to get me into the sport, although I did have plenty of hunters in my extended family. I got sent home to work remotely during Covid and decided to give it a try (yeah...I'm one of those guys...sorry) because I decided it was a life-skill I wanted to have. I fell in love with it.
My first season was a bunch of squirrels and one rabbit because I wanted to start from the ground-up, so to speak. The next year I harvested my first turkey and a couple whitetail does. The year after, I was blessed with a really good buck, and a black bear in VA with some great guys and hounds. Next season, I harvested a cow elk in WY and started taking my young son whitetail hunting in TN (no luck for him that year). This season, he was able to get his first doe and buck, which honestly, made me so much happier than any of the game I've taken.
I've really fallen in love with hunting, and the more I learn about how it can be done ethically and properly, the more I want to do. I always only saw the "trophy" aspect of it growing up, but now I realize how much more it is and can be. We eat everything we harvest, and process a lot of it ourselves (I've even eaten some raccoons I've trapped).
So...I'm looking into a bison hunt sometime in the future. I have done tons of research and I totally realize how tough the odds of drawing a bison tag are. Given the fact that I've accepted those odds at my age, I am still planning to start applying for free range bison tags beginning next year and, with any luck, I'll draw before I get too old. I'm mostly interested in free range, but if a decade or so passes and I haven't drawn, I might consider a management hunt in a place like SD.
If anyone here would be willing to help a new guy out with bison advice, I'm all ears. I'd also be happy to share any info I have that may help. Overall, I'm just really excited to connect with like-minded folks now that I've found this new passion a bit later in life.
Happy holidays everyone.
Glad to be here on Hunt Talk. I'm a family man with a wife and 2 children and we live in Middle TN. I'm also pretty new to hunting. I'm 44 now and started hunting when I was 40. My father never really did it, so I didn't have anyone to get me into the sport, although I did have plenty of hunters in my extended family. I got sent home to work remotely during Covid and decided to give it a try (yeah...I'm one of those guys...sorry) because I decided it was a life-skill I wanted to have. I fell in love with it.
My first season was a bunch of squirrels and one rabbit because I wanted to start from the ground-up, so to speak. The next year I harvested my first turkey and a couple whitetail does. The year after, I was blessed with a really good buck, and a black bear in VA with some great guys and hounds. Next season, I harvested a cow elk in WY and started taking my young son whitetail hunting in TN (no luck for him that year). This season, he was able to get his first doe and buck, which honestly, made me so much happier than any of the game I've taken.
I've really fallen in love with hunting, and the more I learn about how it can be done ethically and properly, the more I want to do. I always only saw the "trophy" aspect of it growing up, but now I realize how much more it is and can be. We eat everything we harvest, and process a lot of it ourselves (I've even eaten some raccoons I've trapped).
So...I'm looking into a bison hunt sometime in the future. I have done tons of research and I totally realize how tough the odds of drawing a bison tag are. Given the fact that I've accepted those odds at my age, I am still planning to start applying for free range bison tags beginning next year and, with any luck, I'll draw before I get too old. I'm mostly interested in free range, but if a decade or so passes and I haven't drawn, I might consider a management hunt in a place like SD.
If anyone here would be willing to help a new guy out with bison advice, I'm all ears. I'd also be happy to share any info I have that may help. Overall, I'm just really excited to connect with like-minded folks now that I've found this new passion a bit later in life.
Happy holidays everyone.
