2017 youth hunt

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Had absolutely awesome conditions light wind, and below normal temps.  Our 11 year old Allison did great, sat 3 sits and never complained about being cold, sat pretty still and we saw a number of deer.  Think all in al we saw 6 different bucks and not sure how many different does.  She killed her first deer during the rifle season in the 2015 season, she had just turned 10 then.  We did not see quite the right deer, but a good time none the less.  I promised her that she would be getting out more during the muzzleloader and rifle seasons with me.  I honestly don't care if I kill a deer this year, and not seen one that has gotten me really excited anyway.

We did see a mature buck on Saturday afternoon.  He put on an educational show as he came in grunting the entire way from one end of our field up to within about 30 yards.  Allison learned that patience often leads way to seeing more.  We had 5 antlerless deer in beans less than 30 yards away as the buck came in.  Unfortunately this was the buck that had his antlers busted.  Had he been as he was prior to busting his antlers(buck on the left below), would have made a sure wallhanger for an 11 year old, and he gave her a pretty good shot opportunity before he bounded off after the does.   

I dont think he had quite this much left on his head when we saw him Saturday afternoon.  Deer was easily over 200 lbs on the hoof which is big for these parts.  

Allison was too tired to get up Sunday morning so she slept in.  We got back out Sunday afternoon and again saw deer, and had a tight racked 2.5 year old 7 point that she thought she might want to take.  She seemed to be a little disappointed that she did not choose to shoot the 7 point, I have my work cut out for me now to get her out as much as possible to try to get her on a better buck.  Hopefully the one that busted up the one above will come around and give her a shot.