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.