Early youth rifle season with my son..
Posted: October 16th, 2012, 7:27 am
My son and I have been looking forward to the early season and his chance to get a deer before his daddy does. So sat morning he was up and ready, a lot easier than usual, to get in the stand. It was beautiful morning. 
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Uploaded with ImageShack.us We sat till 9:30 and did not see anything so we got down and made some mock scrapes. That afternoon we got back in the stand at 5:00 to sit till dark. Did not see much until about 30 minutes till dark a big doe and fawn came out to feed.
Uploaded with ImageShack.us We waited till they left to get down. Sunday we hunted before church and that afternoon but did not see anything. Monday morning we sat for a little while before I had to go to work but saw nothing. I figured o well this coming week will be cooler. I get home that afternoon and my son is ready to go when I get there, so I hurry up and we head to the stand. It's kind of warm and I figure we are not going to see anything. So we are just talking, you know having those great conversations that you dont have when a tv is on. At 7:25 out pops a buck from or left. I get the gun for him and he gets lined up for the shot. The deer is walking so I whistle to stop him and he gives him a quartering away shot. I whisper "get him" and......BOOM the .222 barks. The deer shudders and runs tucked tail away. We high 5 and get down to look cause light is fading fast. I go to where it looked like he went and found nothing so we wait for momma to bring the flash lights. The 3 of us try to find where he was at the shot but the ground is dry and you cant tell new tracks from old ones. We walked all over the plot for 30 minutes and found no blood hair or anything. He thinks he missed and wants to give up. I get the brightest flashlight and head back into the briars and pines to look one last time. I amble around in there for 20 minutes and find no sign at all of a hit. So I ask the lord, "Lord if he hit it please let me find it" And not 30 seconds later this is what I saw.
Uploaded with ImageShack.us From any other direction I would not have seen the white belly. God answered my prayer. I shouted to them that I found it and told him it was "Hamburger" That was our name for him because he was always on camera and we knew we would get him.
Uploaded with ImageShack.us Hamburger had 5pts and weighed 130#s. There is nothing like watching your son get a deer with you beside him. It is one of the best things in life.
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Uploaded with ImageShack.us We sat till 9:30 and did not see anything so we got down and made some mock scrapes. That afternoon we got back in the stand at 5:00 to sit till dark. Did not see much until about 30 minutes till dark a big doe and fawn came out to feed.
Uploaded with ImageShack.us We waited till they left to get down. Sunday we hunted before church and that afternoon but did not see anything. Monday morning we sat for a little while before I had to go to work but saw nothing. I figured o well this coming week will be cooler. I get home that afternoon and my son is ready to go when I get there, so I hurry up and we head to the stand. It's kind of warm and I figure we are not going to see anything. So we are just talking, you know having those great conversations that you dont have when a tv is on. At 7:25 out pops a buck from or left. I get the gun for him and he gets lined up for the shot. The deer is walking so I whistle to stop him and he gives him a quartering away shot. I whisper "get him" and......BOOM the .222 barks. The deer shudders and runs tucked tail away. We high 5 and get down to look cause light is fading fast. I go to where it looked like he went and found nothing so we wait for momma to bring the flash lights. The 3 of us try to find where he was at the shot but the ground is dry and you cant tell new tracks from old ones. We walked all over the plot for 30 minutes and found no blood hair or anything. He thinks he missed and wants to give up. I get the brightest flashlight and head back into the briars and pines to look one last time. I amble around in there for 20 minutes and find no sign at all of a hit. So I ask the lord, "Lord if he hit it please let me find it" And not 30 seconds later this is what I saw.
Uploaded with ImageShack.us From any other direction I would not have seen the white belly. God answered my prayer. I shouted to them that I found it and told him it was "Hamburger" That was our name for him because he was always on camera and we knew we would get him.
Uploaded with ImageShack.us Hamburger had 5pts and weighed 130#s. There is nothing like watching your son get a deer with you beside him. It is one of the best things in life.
