Hunting Teacher
Senior Member
What an incredible weekend! My daughter and I have been hunting the open morning of gun season now for the last 4 years. The last two she has been hunting and I've been there for moral support. 
Saturday morning we were in a double lock on set up in a big bottom. About eight o'clock the deer started moving. One doe after another came by, but Lauren just couldn't get a clear shot. Even had one at 15 yards, but the sun was shining directly on her scope so she couldn't see clear enough to know exactly where she was aiming.(I'm proud of her for being mature enough about her hunting to not pull the trigger.) Finally, about 9:30 a nice doe comes across the creek and right to us. About forty yards out I grunt her to a stop. Lauren makes a perfect shot and the deer runs about thirty yards and piles up.That makes doe number four for her. Lots of hugging ,high fives all around and pictures.
My daughter says the only way this weekend could get any better is if she was to kill her first buck on Sunday.
Sunday morning we are in a little finger bottom in a double ladder stand. About eight o'clock a little four point comes out and heads for us. I tell Lauren he's not a shooter so we are just watching him. The wind is blowing right at him . At about 50 yards he smells us and turns and blows and runs off. I tell her we can't have that, so I get out my bottle of scent shield and drown both of us with it.(Turns out that was a good move.)
At 8:30 we see a deer coming down the same trail towards us. I think it's that little four coming to check us out again. We are just watching the deer slowly walk towards us. He hits an opening and I realize it's a pretty nice buck and tell Lauren to get her gun up and get ready! He walks up within about thirty yards of us and I hit the grunt. The buck freezes and looks right at us. After what seems like ten minutes,(actually about five seconds) Lauren drills him! He does the big leg kick, wheels around and runs back the way he came. He hits a creek, gets sideways, and then disappears but we see a little tree shutter as he crashes into it.
We anxiously wait about five minutes then go to see her buck. He's an eight point about 160 pounds and fourteen inches wide!! Nice two and a half year old deer.He was already rutting big time. Neck swelled up and we could smell his hocks 20 yards before we got to him. He went about 40 yards.
Words can't tell you how it felt to see the pride and excitement on my daughter's face!
When your 14 year old daughter tells you there is no place in the world she'd rather be and no one in the world she'd rather be with it melts this old dad's heart.
I know she may not be my regular hunting partner for too much longer but I'm cherishing every second of it now.
Guy's it just doesn't get any better than that!
A VERY happy Teach
Saturday morning we were in a double lock on set up in a big bottom. About eight o'clock the deer started moving. One doe after another came by, but Lauren just couldn't get a clear shot. Even had one at 15 yards, but the sun was shining directly on her scope so she couldn't see clear enough to know exactly where she was aiming.(I'm proud of her for being mature enough about her hunting to not pull the trigger.) Finally, about 9:30 a nice doe comes across the creek and right to us. About forty yards out I grunt her to a stop. Lauren makes a perfect shot and the deer runs about thirty yards and piles up.That makes doe number four for her. Lots of hugging ,high fives all around and pictures.
My daughter says the only way this weekend could get any better is if she was to kill her first buck on Sunday.
Sunday morning we are in a little finger bottom in a double ladder stand. About eight o'clock a little four point comes out and heads for us. I tell Lauren he's not a shooter so we are just watching him. The wind is blowing right at him . At about 50 yards he smells us and turns and blows and runs off. I tell her we can't have that, so I get out my bottle of scent shield and drown both of us with it.(Turns out that was a good move.)
At 8:30 we see a deer coming down the same trail towards us. I think it's that little four coming to check us out again. We are just watching the deer slowly walk towards us. He hits an opening and I realize it's a pretty nice buck and tell Lauren to get her gun up and get ready! He walks up within about thirty yards of us and I hit the grunt. The buck freezes and looks right at us. After what seems like ten minutes,(actually about five seconds) Lauren drills him! He does the big leg kick, wheels around and runs back the way he came. He hits a creek, gets sideways, and then disappears but we see a little tree shutter as he crashes into it.
We anxiously wait about five minutes then go to see her buck. He's an eight point about 160 pounds and fourteen inches wide!! Nice two and a half year old deer.He was already rutting big time. Neck swelled up and we could smell his hocks 20 yards before we got to him. He went about 40 yards.
Words can't tell you how it felt to see the pride and excitement on my daughter's face!
When your 14 year old daughter tells you there is no place in the world she'd rather be and no one in the world she'd rather be with it melts this old dad's heart.
I know she may not be my regular hunting partner for too much longer but I'm cherishing every second of it now.
Guy's it just doesn't get any better than that!
A VERY happy Teach
