Women Hunters: Are they welcomed into your group?


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Re: Women Hunters: Are they welcomed into your group?

In the beginning, we , my sister and I would get some harassment,you coud tell most would be nice in front of us and then go off snickering with their buddies, but over the years we have earned their respect as hunters, we do everything ourselves from the scouting to cleaning and packaging the meat....i guess we weren't just shooters so to speak....not that i would have a problem with soeone setting me up and just letting me shoot, it's alot easier, lol....seeing more and more women in the woods, i am tickled pink.......even one of the gals that only used to hog hunt went out and bought herself a bow, i love it...... cool.gif

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When I started hunting, the guys were thrilled I would be tagging along. I was teased for bringing too much, but nothing they don't do to other guys, so I wasn't being singled out because of my gender. If anyone had a problem with me being there, they said it behing my back! LOL

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I've never been shown any bias when I've been hunting or shooting. Now I may not have salesmen jumping to help me initially, but as soon as they know I'm serious about my sport, they are as helpful as can be. I think sometimes there is a perception that we are just hanging around waiting for 'our guy' to buy 'his' stuff. Everyone in the club I belong to in GA is always helpful. At home ( Ohio ), I hunt by myself and even when I run across other hunters, they've all been very respectful of me. Now I my get my fair share of ribbing, but then I dish it out well, too.

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Now I may not have salesmen jumping to help me

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I do have that problem....or people ask me who I am shopping for in the hunting department. But when I tell them I am shopping for me, they usually think it's pretty cool and then ask how they can get their partner to go too. grin.gif

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Never had a problem with guys saying anything negative about women hunting. They get a kick out of it. I have heard so many guys say how they wished their wives/girlfriends hunted too. And they get REALLY tickled when I tell them how many deer I've killed. wink.gif

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My close group of friends and family I hunt with treat me as one of the boys which I perfer. If I can't clean it or cook it I won't hunt it or kill it. The last three years I have started doing a lot more hunting out of state and with new contacts and sometimes I get the double take but once they realize there are brains and a serious determination for hunting on my part I usually get accepted right away. Narrow-minded men are not the type of hunters or people in general I want to surround myself around anyways.

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I've always gone hunting with my Dad, his brother, cousins husband and his brothers - all of which have been very supportive with me hunting. I still get picked on over certain things like wearing my earrings during deer season (They can't see them cause I wear a face mask - so why not! LOL grin.gif) or bringing along everything but the kitchen sink in my backpack. blush.gifsmirk.gif

All in all though, I have gotten nothing but a positive reaction from men when I tell them I hunt/fish. Most act surprised at first but then the questions start pouring out.... smile.gif

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I love to see it, my Dad would ask my sis to go hunting with us but she would not go but got mad when I got out of school to deer hunt Thanksgiving week and she could not go then? Dad told her that hunting was not just deer hunting and getting out of school and if she would hunt the rest of the year she could go Thanksgiving week also.

Till I marred Mommy, she had never hunted and only shoot one time in a college class, now she has killed 4 deer (1 nice 10 pt) and 3 turkeys (she still don't let me forget that it was 23 lbs, gutted???) and helps me take the boys out. Oh ya, she also is part of the planing team for the state Womens in the Outdoors event for Ohio.

God I am such a lucky man to have been blessed with such a Lovly hunting buddy.

Frank.

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i don't see anything wrong with women going hunting with men. my wife goes with me when she wants to. alot of the guys i hunt with bring their wives along with them. my little girl is 3 and she told me the other say that she wants to go with me this year. i told her she could go and we are going to go and get her a deer.

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Men, do you find yourself giving acceptance in having women hunting within your "Hunting Group"

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Heck No!! Here's the proof in the pudding too. A couple of weeks ago my buddy Gary and I took his girlfriend Leslie hog hunting and this is Gary and Leslie with her 1st hog. He got the whole thing on video too. cool.gif

All I did was suggest were they should go at our club and help Gary skin and butcher Leslie's pig. This was the only one she saw so I didn't get to rag her about letting any pigs escape. wink.gifgrin.gif

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I think it's awsome to have women hunt. Some of them are better hunters than us. I would welcome a lady anyday. Lucky for me, I married into a family that has women hunters. It might be tough for a school age girl to hunt though due to peer pressure. I wouldn't think that it isin't a very popular thing for a high school girl to hunt. it's ashame to say that but I know when I was in high school in the late 80's and early 90's, your typical girl would of gotten made fun of for wanting to hunt and I grew up in a big hunting community too.

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