Hunters: Post your first kill.

[sh4dowf4lcon]

Okay, what age were you? Who took you hunting? Where were you hunting? What type of firearm or weapon did you use? What animal?


When I was 9 we started shooting jack rabbits in West Texas. My dad and my uncles took me when we visited my great grandparents in Shep, TX. We used 4*10 single shot, single barrell, break down type of shotgun.

I also killed my first turkey when I was about 11. Believe it or not I shot him in the head with a M14. In one eye, and out the other eye. My dad made me carry him to the house. My great grandmother, cleaned it, took off the feathers and marinated the turkey, and we ate it for Thanksgiving a couple of days later.

My first kill was jack rabbit. We did not eat these rabbits, but we did take them home and throw them to the cats. My great grand parents had dozens of farm cats (snakes and mice); those cats loved it when gramps slit the rabbit's stomach and open and threw their carcass to the cats to eat.

 

[onerepmaximum]

The first thing I shot was a pheasant with a .410, you couldn't tell me nothing.

 

[sh4dowf4lcon]

lol, and still cant tell you a damn thing!

 

[onerepmaximum]

lol, and still cant tell you a damn thing!

You have a point there, my friend.

 

[manny78]

First kill was at the age of 8 in Spain. It was a wild boar. Can't remember exactly the caliber but it took me 3-4 rounds to take it down so it might have been a .22LR.

 

[strongsmartsexy]

I was about 13. Squirrels with a .22LR old pump.

 

[mordy]

Hell before i can even remember my dad had me shooting squirels with a 220. Before that i probably killed a number of birds with a air rifle

 

[John C Calhoun]

Squirrel with 0.410 long time ago.

 

[PIGEON-RAT]

First kill was at the age of 8 in Spain. It was a wild boar. Can't remember exactly the caliber but it took me 3-4 rounds to take it down so it might have been a .22LR.

I haven't been hunting yet... but my first kill shall be a wild boar in Italy next spring. mmm cinghiale.

 

[sh4dowf4lcon]

Did you guys eat the squirells? I have seen guys skin them and eat them, but I never ate them.

 

[onerepmaximum]

Did you guys eat the squirells? I have seen guys skin them and eat them, but I never ate them.

Squirrel is good to eat. I can't figure why people would kill something and not eat it.

 

[strongsmartsexy]

Did you guys eat the squirells? I have seen guys skin them and eat them, but I never ate them.

Of course we'd eat them. Very good in stews.

 

[sh4dowf4lcon]

I know it is good to et, but I never ate one. I wonder how it tastes...please refrain from saying it taste like chicken...everyone says that

 

[broley]

I know it is good to et, but I never ate one. I wonder how it tastes...please refrain from saying it taste like chicken...everyone says that

I don't know how to tell you this mang, I tastes like chicken
I had some fried and in squirrel dumplings. It was great.

My first kill was a ruffed grouse with the trusty ole single shot 410. I love that shotgun. A tight pattern. I think out of all the birds I've shot, only a couple have had a few shot pellets in the meat.

 

[sh4dowf4lcon]

pfft! squirrel chicken pfft! like people who say rattlesnake tastes like chicken...umm no it doesnt, you do!

 

[broley]

pfft! squirrel chicken pfft! like people who say rattlesnake tastes like chicken...umm no it doesnt, you do!

NO YOU
I've never tried rattlesnake. I would though.

 

[mordy]

Theres not much left of the squirels to eat when we killed em, unless it was a clean head shot.

 

[strongsmartsexy]

Theres not much left of the squirels to eat when we killed em, unless it was a clean head shot.

I took out 2 squirrels with one .22LR shot once. PURELY by accident as I didn't even know the second one was there. I saw this squirrel kinda wrapped around a tree. I aimed for and hit it right though the eye. It hit the ground and I thought "shit that's one huge squirrel". When I went to pick it up, I found 2 squirrels. The second one had been hit from under the chin and out through the back of it's head. It must have been hiding direcly behind the other squirrel.

Oh, and they have the same basic texture as chicken, but have a dark meat kind of flavor. The older squirrels tend to have a gamier flavor. And gray squirrels taste a bit different from Red squirrels. Although, I cant' tell how you. It's been over 30 years since I've had squirrel.

 

[Aeoleon]

Squirrel with a .177 airgun in my backyard, about age 6 i think. Me and my sister were both shooting it. It was a pretty strong squirrel, I think it took somethin like 4 pellets before it dropped out of the tree.

First deer, was a doe with a .223 at about age 9, at my uncle's ranch around Corpus Christi, TX I believe. My dad hung it from a tree upside down and I gutted it. We could hear the coyotes goin crazy over its guts a few hours later.

Anywho.. Those were my first 'main' kills. There have been lots of squirrels, rabbits, birds, a few deer and hogs, and 1 nilgai since.

Squirrels ain't bad, neither are rabbits. Though I've heard of people starving to death from just eating rabbits and squirrels, when they get lost in the woods up in canada. There's just not enough nutrients in them. Deer jerky is my favorite though.