SUCCESS!!! (LONG!/ pic included)

Michiganbowhunter_SQ2 · September 25, 2006

no not for me...i took my 16 year old cousin out for the youth hunt...didn't get a chance to go out yesterday because of rain...and my vehicle is messing up so we couldn't make it out this morning....but the land we are hunting is about 45 minutes away and near my grandparents house, so my mom had us drop her off there, and we headed out to the woods....we had some trouble with the land we were planning on hunting, the land owner failed to inform us that there where other people hunting it (its only a 10 acre piece of woods, the rest is bean and alfalfa fileds) so my uncle called another guy he knows, who owns 300 acres or so behind his house, we walk out to the tower bow blind..me, my 16 year old cousin, and my soon to be 12 year old cousin...there is corn on the east side of the tower, a bean field on the west side...and a larger piece of woods to the north....so we are...sitting there for a little bit, and the chair my 16 year old cousin was sitting is was squeaking, so i let him sit on the stool i was using, and of course...10 minutes later, my littlest cousin sees 2 deer come out....and of course, because of the squeaking chair, i can't turn around to see...but my 16 year old cousin gets in position...sits there and watches the two deer, decides he is going to take the bigger one...and the whole time, i cannot see what is going on, they were about 35-40 yards away...and he was pretty calm, waiting until he had a good shot..i just sat there, whispering to him to take a deap breath, make sure he had a good shot....then BOOM!! ..i whipped around...didn't see anything, and he said he got him...we waited about 5 minutes, get down...right away we find blood....then more, and more....it started getting a little less and less......then they started finding a little more....so i stopped them....marked where we were...and told the younger one to run up to the house (about 600 yards away) and get is dad and that we would sit off to the side and wait..i wanted to make sure this thing was going to expire and didn't want them to get to excited and start pushing it farther and farther away....so a little while passes, they get back....and we find her 150 yards from where he shot her....and to think, he wasn't going to get a doe tag until i talked him into it...now, i must say, its not a huge deer, its rather small...but it is his very first deer, and he knows that from now on its mature does only...and for the record...i have been hunting for 11 years or so...and him for about 4...this is his first, and i have yet to get my first...i was just as pumped as him, being there and able to help him get his first, was GREAT!!

TexasDeerHunter · September 25, 2006