I Need help with hunting

Question

I'm 14 years old and ive never hunted b4 nether has my mom or dad. i would like to start hunting deer this fall but and i have no idea wat rifle i should get or all the gear i need. my uncle can help me with the skinning i just need to know wat i need 4 hunting.

Answer 1

Welcome to the world of hunting. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have!!  You need to take a hunter safety course to get your license.This are usually offered theru your local fish and game office. Many of the answers you need will be found there. Also, some Fish and game offices can put you in touch with a mentor, usually an older hunter who will join you for the pre hunt, and hunt itself to help you and share his experiences.

At 14 you can handle a .243, which is great for white tail but a little light for the big muley's. A .308 is ideal, I favor the .270 winchester and my kids grew up shooting one. there are other good choices as well as far as caliber, just make sure you have one of sufficient caliber to ensure a clean and humane kill for the size and type of animal you hunt.

shoot safe

Answer 2

the very first thing you should do is take your states hunters education course..........most if not all states require you to take and pass the course before you can hunt.........the course will tell you everything you need to know

Answer 3

My suggestion would be a 20 gauge shotgun with slugs, sighted in for 50 and 100 yds so you know where its punching holes in the target at those distances.  Then pace off those two distances dozens of times and look at it, measuring the distance in your mind so you can estimate distance so that you can make your first shot count.

Then, you will want to read the DNR or government rules on deer hunting for your state.  There may well be things you dont understnad so dont hesitate to find someone to explain them to you, either in your town or on here.

Then, spend some time in the woods this fall, looking for and learning what "deer sign" is.  Deer droppings, scrapes, runways, buck rubs, and deer beds are all good things to know if you are going to become a good hunter.  Learn how to spot deer tracks and judge them by the size of the track.  When you get good you can tell if its a buck or doe, big or small.

Whatever you do, dont sleep in on the mornings you can hunt.  Be out in your stand 30 minutes before you can legally shoot, so that the woods settles down after you have entered it and awakened the animals that live there.  Be dead quiet that whole 30 minutes so they think you have left.  Move only your eyes, or turn your head so slowly that it wont spook animals.  Rapid movements and noise will scare off deer.

As you get better at hunting, you will learn about eliminating your human scent so that the deer cant smell you, and you can start by hanging your hunting clothes out in a tree for a week before season starts this year.

Then, learn to be patient and move your eyes while sitting in the woods.  Deer rarely make a racket and appear in your line of sight...most of the time, you wont ever hear them and they will juust...appear.  seemingly out of nowhere.

It takes patience, and a desire to learn.  If you are lucky you will see deer.  If you are even luckier and have practiced, you will get a shot.  If you have done your homework, you may have fresh venison after that shot.  If not, you will have learned something from the situation and next time, you may drrop the deer that feeds your family!

Answer 4

the minimum caliber varies by state, usually the minimum is a .223  

Answer 5

Get a Mossberg 100-ATR chambered in .243......

http://www.mossberg.com/images/Mossberg_...

This model has a shorter length of pull for youth shooters.........

Answer 6

The minimum caliber for deer hunting with a rifle is the .243 Winchester.  Most likely whatever adult will be accompanying you hunting can provide the rest of the gear.

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Answer 7

Ahh, nothing like the first season. I recommend you read all the regulations for your state, and make sure you take a safety course. You will need a licensed adult with you (at least as far as I know that's the law in most states, that's why you should check). As for rifles, a .243, .25-06, .270, or .30-30 are great starters. Depending on your build, you might need a youth model. I started with a Savage Arms youth .243 and used Nosler Partition rounds. Also, make sure you know how much orange you have to wear, if any. Calls and scents are overrated. The way my dad and I hunt is by slowly moving for twenty mins or so and then finding a place to sit with an overview with a trail, stay there for awhile, and then move again, and we repeat this. Stands also work, but if you don't own the land or can be sure no one will use it (it is legal [at least in PA] to occupy an unguarded stand, regardless of owner, if the owner's ID is not on the equipment, but most people don't care, and it's boring), then our method works well. I haven't got a deer yet, (but my dad has before I was born) but I blame it on where we are hunting, not our strategy, and I'm 16, so my time will come. It had better, my parents, my niece, my nephew, and I went to a park called Deer Park (cuz it has deer in it, but the other animals outnumber the deer population in variety [they only have a couple dozen fallow deer and two whitetails...weird]) and i was feeding a deer and it bit me, so I figure that I should get one this fall since they drew first blood.

Good luck!

Answer 8

you need to check your state regulations 1st