I am a Girl

       I am a girl.  For some reason or another a some of people think that because I am a girl then that means I cannot or should not be hunting. Some also don't believe that someone as young as me could possibly grasp a coherent understanding of the whole thing.

     Girls are completely capable of doing what ever a guy can do, if not better, we can do whatever we put our minds to, so do not simply judge a girl because she hasn't done or experienced something one of you guys might see as a girl being incapable of, because she might very well whoop your sorry butt and put you to shame.

     Times have changed my friends and a lot Female hunters are much more my widely excepted. As we humans are creatures of habit, and as to be expected, some still don't quite understand our want to go hunting or our desire to be in the woods. But that's okay, no one will ever get along with everyone.

     I've wanted to do something like this for some time now, but I'm just now ready to do so. I'm not always the most understanding person when it comes to seeing things anyway but mine. Recently though, and I'm not sure what changed, I've come to some what be able to understand their un-desire of the changing waters. It's an uncharted territory out side of their normal comfort zone.  I, myself, don't handle change as well as others do, but we can all grow as people, we just have to be willing and try.

    I am independent, strong willed, and as stubborn as a mule. I intend to speak my opinions here, and since it's my opinion and my blog, if you don't like it you can go somewhere else and express your opinion. I will not put up with any bull crap I guarantee you that, so you can take you polar opposite opinions and bad attitudes somewhere else if you don't like what I have to say.

    And don't you dare tell me because I'm a girl or because of my age that I don't know what I'm talking about, because you'll have another thing coming to you.

    You wont change my mind so don't waste your breath.

Getting to know me.

     As you may already know my name is Stephanie and this is my blog 'She Hunts', I am 17 years old and I live in Maryland. I've been hunting for 8 years now and hunting is a way of life for my family. My Dad was raised into hunting. My Mom had relatives who hunted and wasn't against it or anything, but just never had a reason to go, when she met my dad she decided to try it. and now both my sister and I hunt as well, though I am a tad more obsessed and driven by it then she is. She prefers fishing more and that's fine.
     Ever since I was little I'd go out with Mom or Dad and sit in a tree stand or blind (usually a blind because I didn't know how to sit still at that age.) and I'd get up with them before the sun ever rose, ready and willing, and I went with them many a times. watching my parents success just made me want to hunt more.
     Most people my age aren't morning people, at all. My sister for example, she prefers evening hunts, where as I prefer morning hunts.

     The first time I went out Deer hunting, I was 9. Dad took me out on youth day, it was a cool and rainy morning. We had a doe feeding behind our tree stand on the wood line over looking the field. A spike buck come up over the top of the field and fed his way to us. Dad asked if I wanted to shoot the doe, but by that time she was gone and the spike kept getting closer. When he got to the thirty yard mark I shot using a 30-06 rifle, the bullet broke his spine and he fell right where he had been standing broad side. Several weeks before my dad had gone to on a hunting trip and dropped the gun, but he hadn't realize the sights needed to be readjusted.
     But ever since that day I've been hooked and in the woods every chance I get. In fact opening day of deer season was this past Friday but the extreme heat kept me out of the woods. I may be obsessed but I'm not crazy.