Thread: How did you get interested in hunting?

I think it's something I was just born with if that's possible , my Dad was a keen duck shooter but was never into deer hunting.
In my early years I lived with my Mum up in Auckland and can remember reading a few books about the early deer cullers and then Philip Holdens books which I still have now, well I was hooked probably obsessed and still am ,my wife recons I'm too narrow minded in my interests and she's probably right but that's never going to change.
At 16 I moved down to live with my Dad on the farm near Taihape and already had my own .22 and a sporterised .303 . There was not a rabbit hare or possum that was safe anywhere on the farm. Shot my first deer at 18 in the nearby Hihitahi bush and from then on couldn't get enough of it .
These days it's just for the pure injoyment of being out in the bush , always on the lookout for a good stag but quite happy to just see and watch deer and shooting a few for the freezer . Cheers