Fourteen-year-old Camryn King and her 11-year-old brother Brady King both started accompanying their father on hunting trips when they were as young as 5.

Matt King has been hunting with Box Elder Hunt Club for 30 years and has successfully passed on his enjoyment of hunting to his children.

Both Camryn and Brady killed their first deer in 2013.

“I was really excited and pumped, and I didn’t really know what to do because I was excited, and I was really shaking,” Brady said.

Camryn got one last season, while Brady did not, but the two enjoyed an epic sibling deer-hunting rivalry during the 2015-16 shotgun season that unfolded in Suffolk near Box Elder Hunt Club.

“The morning always starts off with who’s going to get the first shot,” Matt King said. “It’s always a competition of some degree.”

Brady had struck first in kills by getting a buck on Dec. 19 off of Porterfield Lane.

“I felt really good, and I was really excited, and I knew right when we got up to it that we could be able to mount it, and so I was really excited about that,” Brady said.

Camryn said that upon learning of her brother’s kill, “I was happy for him, but at the same time I was a little disappointed, because I wanted one, too.”

She pulled even with her brother the morning of Jan. 1 when she killed a doe off of Quaker Drive.

Brady had slept in that morning and sent a text message asking his dad how things went on the hunt.

“So, we sent the picture, and we said, ‘Oh, it’s not going bad at all,’” Camryn said.

Brady said that when he saw the photo of the doe, “I was like ‘Oh, wow, is that real?’ Because I really didn’t think (Camryn) was going to do anything, so then I was like, ‘I have to go and get me one,’ and I did.”

He went out that afternoon and got a doe off of Liberty Spring Road.

“I was really surprised,” he said. “I really didn’t think I was going to even see anything.”

Camryn said when she learned her brother had gone up 2-1, “I was a little jealous, to be honest. But I was happy for him to get his second deer of the season, too.”

The next day, the last day of shotgun season, Camryn tied her brother, nicely bookending the King siblings’ kills by getting her own buck off of Porterfield Lane.

Though he could not deny experiencing some jealousy, Brady said, “I was actually really happy for her and proud that she could get hers and I got mine.”

Asked what her favorite thing is about hunting, Camryn said, “I would say the adrenaline rush you get when you hear the dogs start coming your way and you hear the crashing in the woods that’s coming straight toward you.”