1986 (senior in high school) was when it started. Then hit or miss the first few years while I was in college. But after I graduated, from the fall of 1992 I have deer hunted every fall except for 1996. In 1996 I lived in Mexico for business and missed every minute of every hunting season. So if we count back to 1986 to now ... 28 years with a handful of missed years in the early days.

No one in my family hunts, so sadly, I don't have my own youth hunting stories to fall back on.