sportsman94
Senior Member
When I went hunting Friday afternoon my 3 year old said, “Daddy, I want to go deer hunting!” Well, after our first experience I knew her attention span would only last about 10-15 minutes at the most and I was going to be gone a lot longer than that. I told her that we’d go Saturday afternoon. I got home from hunting Saturday morning and my wife told me our daughter had almost started crying when she found out I was in the woods cause she wanted to go. Mama told her that we were going to go Saturday afternoon still and all was ok.
About 5:15 we were leaving our house to go hunt and Jojo (our daughter) said, “We have to kill a buck tonight.” I giggled and said baby, were probably only gonna see does. Is it ok if we shoot one of those? She said no, we’ll just shoot a buck. Well, we get to the field and put our chairs down and we all sit. About 3 mins later a deer steps out of the bottom corner of the field. I could tell right away it was a little buck and asked her if she could see It. She couldn’t. She ended up standing up from her chair and walking to mine so she could see it. Her and my wife got to arguing cause at that point my daughter wanted ti sit back down in her chair and my wife wanted her to be still so as to not spook the deer. About the time her butt hit the chair I pulled the trigger. We saw a mule kick, and My wife said it sounded like it hit.
We said a prayer giving thanks for the opportunity and headed down to check for blood. We got down to the spot and I found nothing but some muddy tracks where he jumped. Great, I thought. A long track or missed deer is what we have to look forward to. Jojo walks this property a couple times a week with her grandma and headed down to the lower trail just a few yards from where the buck was shot. She started talking and I said hold on baby, we’re looking for sign. After not seeing anything, I peaked down the trail and wouldn’t you know it Jojo was looking at a white belly the whole time. He ran about 30 yards from the shot.
After all that, Jojo got her buck.
About 5:15 we were leaving our house to go hunt and Jojo (our daughter) said, “We have to kill a buck tonight.” I giggled and said baby, were probably only gonna see does. Is it ok if we shoot one of those? She said no, we’ll just shoot a buck. Well, we get to the field and put our chairs down and we all sit. About 3 mins later a deer steps out of the bottom corner of the field. I could tell right away it was a little buck and asked her if she could see It. She couldn’t. She ended up standing up from her chair and walking to mine so she could see it. Her and my wife got to arguing cause at that point my daughter wanted ti sit back down in her chair and my wife wanted her to be still so as to not spook the deer. About the time her butt hit the chair I pulled the trigger. We saw a mule kick, and My wife said it sounded like it hit.
We said a prayer giving thanks for the opportunity and headed down to check for blood. We got down to the spot and I found nothing but some muddy tracks where he jumped. Great, I thought. A long track or missed deer is what we have to look forward to. Jojo walks this property a couple times a week with her grandma and headed down to the lower trail just a few yards from where the buck was shot. She started talking and I said hold on baby, we’re looking for sign. After not seeing anything, I peaked down the trail and wouldn’t you know it Jojo was looking at a white belly the whole time. He ran about 30 yards from the shot.
After all that, Jojo got her buck.
