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H2OFwlKlr 11-24-2010 03:18 PM

Son's first deer
 
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This is my son's first deer. He's 6 years old and shot it Monday afternoon, 11-22-10, behind our house. He wanted to go hunting and at first I was thinking: 78 degrees and mosquitoes in November not a good combination for deer hunting, goes to show what I know. My neighbor always tell me this is when they "rut" so off we go. He loves to hunt and he has this grunt call he always uses around the house, important later. The whole time we are hunting he blows this grunt call about every 10 minutes, he's having fun and I try to make it enjoyable for him even if I think it may hurt our chances. After about an hour he finally tells me the mosquitoes are getting him and he's ready to go. I know that the little bit of time left is the magical time, but we haven't seen anything and it is hot and many mosquitoes. We start to walk out of the field, a cut bean field, with new levees in it. As we start to walk I check the edge of the woods, which is 300 yards away one more time, and there is a buck staring straight us. I freeze and tell my son to stop and stand still. At this point I don't know what to do, then I remember Grunt Call. I tell my son to blow his grunt call, and when he does this deer starts to trot staight to us! He stops about 200 yards from us and my heart is starting to beat fast, my son can't believe it either. It stops still looking at us in that attentive position, head up, ears out, and we are just standing there in the field, 30 feet from the edge of some trees along a drain ditch. I tell my son to blow his grunt call again, and the buck starts trotting to us again, oh man! I tell my son to slowly kneel down, the buck keeps coming, so I slowly squat down, and he stops 100 yards from us, but he is still behind a levee, no shot. He is just staring us down, so I slowly put the rifle across my knee and tell my son to blow his grunt call one more time. The buck crosses the levee and stops 75 yards from us, staring us down. My heart is beating so fast, good thing my son seems to be the calm one, I look down at him and he is looking through the scope at the deer! He asks if he can shoot! I am trying to whisper to him where to shoot in the neck and the deer finally flags his tail and starts to trot off, my heart sinks, but I remember they say to make a noise to stop them, I can't even tell you what noise I made, but it worked. The deer takes 10 steps and stops broadside looking straight at us. I ask my son are you on him, (we practice behind the shoulder shots all the time), and he says yes. I tell him "Chute 'em", and bang he shoots. I watch the deer run off and I get that feeling, did he hit him or not, he's a good shot and when I asked he said,"Dad, I hit him right were I was aiming, behind the shoulder!" Sure enough, 30 minutes later we recover him just 30 feet into the woods, dead as a doornail. Perfect shot, deer was quatering, bullet went in right behind the right front shoulder and exited on the left side to the back of the rib cage right below the backstrap and in the upper body cavity! No messed up meat and no gut shot! We were both so excited not only his first deer, but the way that buck just kept coming at us everytime he blew that grunt call! What an experience.

He shot it with a Remington 700 ADL .243, 100 grain BTSP.

Guys with young kids, don't ever think they are too young to do something. My son has been shooting a rifle with a scope for a couple years now. He started with a .17 cal with a scope and we shot hundreds of rounds throught it, then a .223 with a scope, now a .243. Spend time with them practicing, it teaches them safety and proper shot placement.

Sorry so long, but I hated to cut the story short. It was priceless, and I am thankful I got to share that moment with my son.

joshdomingue 11-24-2010 03:28 PM

I love it .... you don't see many 6 yr olds with a deer down!!!

DUCKGOGETTER 11-24-2010 03:38 PM

Congrats to him and you dad. It's awesome to see young kids getting outdoors and loving it. He is hooked for life now.

SULPHITE 11-24-2010 03:48 PM

that is so cool!! Congrats to your little one and great job on getting him ready! Thats a heck of nice deer for a firsrt too! Great story as well!

Dink 11-24-2010 05:56 PM

Dude!! Nice shop!!!!

simplepeddler 11-24-2010 06:03 PM

Man .....cut it short. !!! are you nuts!!!
That is a story man, a great story.The little man's face says is all.

WOW Holeee Moleee that is great!!

BLUE 11-24-2010 06:17 PM

congrats lil dude !

tcglsu 11-24-2010 06:25 PM

Awesome!! Great story I could almost feel the Mosquitos bitin me

Jo-boater 11-24-2010 06:32 PM

Excellent story and deer! He will remember that hunt with his dad for the rest of his life.;)

Bluechip 11-24-2010 06:33 PM

Now that is just too cool.......I know you are proud and it will make for an awesome story to tell all the family over the holidays.

Jo-boater 11-24-2010 06:34 PM

On the mosquito thing, I used a Thermacell in the duck blind for the first time today and it seemed to work really well. Once it got cranked up there were no more around us.

speck-chaser 11-24-2010 07:06 PM

great job. awesome deer for the first one, or any one for that matter

cabwiz2 11-24-2010 07:36 PM

Great story. I love the facial expression on your son. He looks stoked. I bet yours looked the same. Congrats

southern151 11-24-2010 07:43 PM

That is the best dang report I've read on this or any site in a long time!!!

To both of you, great work!!

H2OFwlKlr 11-25-2010 02:54 AM

Thanks to all for the wonderful comments. It is truly something we will never forget and always be able to share with each other as well as others.

Ray 11-25-2010 03:08 AM

Big neck on that buck.
Happy smile on that boys face.

jaclyn.renea 11-25-2010 09:24 AM

Congrats to the little man!
He looks so excited!
You need to frame that picture!
It'll be something yall remember for a long time! :)


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