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My name is Drew Edwards and I was raised and lived in Florida for the first 30 years of my life. My Mother had come from Wyoming and all of my life I heard stories about the West and about cowboys and how my Mothers brothers, my Uncles, had all lived thier lives chasing mule deer, elk and antelope and from the very beginning I was in love with the Wild West. Throughout my life my family would travel from Florida to Wyoming to visit relatives and my love of the West just kept on growing. In 1987 and 1993 I took two hunting trips to Wyoming and had a great time hunting with one of my Uncles but a seed was planted in me and I knew that one day I would have to move West. In 1993 I worked at the Denver International Airport and then worked in a gold mine in the Elko, Nevada area where I settled down. In the 17 years I've been in Nevada I've been constantly learning how to hunt the West turning from truck rifle hunter to archery bivvy hunter. I'm not going to talk about the last 17 years but instead talk about the last couple of years which brings me to where I'm at now. Hope you enjoy the story.
I decided to get into the Hunt Adventure Challenge due to all of the great stories I've been reading in this forum so I thought I'd share my owne adventures. So here it goes.
In 2007 I took up bow hunting and decided to give it a try. Its kinda funny because my wife and I were getting married in 2006 and while planning our wedding she specifically asked me if we could get married on August 6th. At the time I was not a bow hunter and I told her that I had no intentions of ever bow hunting so August 6th would be great. Nevada's early archery seasons start on August 1st but since I didn't bow hunt there was no chance of me ruining our future honeymoons. Ha ha, I've ruined every honeymoon we've had because bow hunting really agreed with me and got under my skin. In 2007 I got my best buck ever but more importantly I hunted in such a way that got me up in and on top of the mountains which is something I truley love. It wasn't so much killing a deer but getting in those mountains that I really fell in love with. Killing a deer is just icing on the cake. Here is my first archery buck.
[URL]http://www.monstermuleys.info/photos/user_photos/3619001.jpg[/URL]
Well in 2008 and 2009 I never really saw a buck that I wanted to shoot so I mostly concentrated on helping my new hunting partner, Steve Stanfill, get his first buck. We were unsuccessful but now Steve was hooked and was quickly learning everything that had taken me 17 years to learn.
So stat tuned to read about our 2010 archery mule deer hunting season. Would this be another year of tag soup or would we finally get Steve his first buck and fill my tag for the first time since 2007? fatrooster.
My name is Drew Edwards and I was raised and lived in Florida for the first 30 years of my life. My Mother had come from Wyoming and all of my life I heard stories about the West and about cowboys and how my Mothers brothers, my Uncles, had all lived thier lives chasing mule deer, elk and antelope and from the very beginning I was in love with the Wild West. Throughout my life my family would travel from Florida to Wyoming to visit relatives and my love of the West just kept on growing. In 1987 and 1993 I took two hunting trips to Wyoming and had a great time hunting with one of my Uncles but a seed was planted in me and I knew that one day I would have to move West. In 1993 I worked at the Denver International Airport and then worked in a gold mine in the Elko, Nevada area where I settled down. In the 17 years I've been in Nevada I've been constantly learning how to hunt the West turning from truck rifle hunter to archery bivvy hunter. I'm not going to talk about the last 17 years but instead talk about the last couple of years which brings me to where I'm at now. Hope you enjoy the story.
I decided to get into the Hunt Adventure Challenge due to all of the great stories I've been reading in this forum so I thought I'd share my owne adventures. So here it goes.
In 2007 I took up bow hunting and decided to give it a try. Its kinda funny because my wife and I were getting married in 2006 and while planning our wedding she specifically asked me if we could get married on August 6th. At the time I was not a bow hunter and I told her that I had no intentions of ever bow hunting so August 6th would be great. Nevada's early archery seasons start on August 1st but since I didn't bow hunt there was no chance of me ruining our future honeymoons. Ha ha, I've ruined every honeymoon we've had because bow hunting really agreed with me and got under my skin. In 2007 I got my best buck ever but more importantly I hunted in such a way that got me up in and on top of the mountains which is something I truley love. It wasn't so much killing a deer but getting in those mountains that I really fell in love with. Killing a deer is just icing on the cake. Here is my first archery buck.
[URL]http://www.monstermuleys.info/photos/user_photos/3619001.jpg[/URL]
Well in 2008 and 2009 I never really saw a buck that I wanted to shoot so I mostly concentrated on helping my new hunting partner, Steve Stanfill, get his first buck. We were unsuccessful but now Steve was hooked and was quickly learning everything that had taken me 17 years to learn.
So stat tuned to read about our 2010 archery mule deer hunting season. Would this be another year of tag soup or would we finally get Steve his first buck and fill my tag for the first time since 2007? fatrooster.