Justin Moore’s mom is his best friend, so when we asked him to pick one of his favorite memories with her from when he was growing up, it was tough for him to pick just one, but he came up with a good one. “Probably my favorite, growin’ up, I always hunted with my grandpa. And my grandpa and I were very, very close, and he wanted to be able to get me my first deer. He spent all this time trying to do so.”

Justin went hunting a lot with his grandpa, and they’d work on his shot and his technique and everything they could to turn him into a skilled hunter. But then, he says, “When I was, I guess 13 years old or 12 years old, something like that, my mom and I went huntin’ one day and I killed my first deer with my mom. And so, my grandfather, although he was very excited for me, he was like, ‘Of course. Your mom takes you the first time, and boom.’”

Ultimately, Justin is pretty sure his grandpa was proud of him for getting his first deer, even though it was with his mom, and he says, “We still have a pretty good laugh about that.”

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