I realize it is only a button buck but the story is what makes it remarkable. My 13-year-old son Dawson snuck up on this buck in his stocking feet and put an arrow though its heart from 25 yards tonight.
Here's the whole story. I picked him up from school and we were going to go sit in our ground blind along the edge of an alfalfa field. When we got to the field, this deer was already standing out in front of the ground blind and Dawson was dying to stalk it. He always wants to get out of his stand and try to sneak up on deer and I have really been discouraging him from doing that because it is such a longshot and I am trying to convince him it is better to stay in the stand. ANyway the wind was right and he REALLY wanted to take a try at this deer. I relented and watched with binoculars from the top of a hill about 125 yards away as he carefully sneaked through the edge of the woods towards the deer. With about 50 yards left I was suprised that he took off his shoes! Long story short, he gets to within 25 yard which is a stretch for his shooting range, but he isn't going to get any closer. He calmly puts an arrow through the deer's heart and both lungs. The whole thing took about 20 minutes. It ran about 80 yards and died right inside the trees. We wer ehome hanging the deer before dark.
It is going to be a long time before the smile goes off his face and it is going to be a lot harder to keep him in the tree stand from now on when there are deer out in front of him. The kid is turning into quite the predator.
Here's the whole story. I picked him up from school and we were going to go sit in our ground blind along the edge of an alfalfa field. When we got to the field, this deer was already standing out in front of the ground blind and Dawson was dying to stalk it. He always wants to get out of his stand and try to sneak up on deer and I have really been discouraging him from doing that because it is such a longshot and I am trying to convince him it is better to stay in the stand. ANyway the wind was right and he REALLY wanted to take a try at this deer. I relented and watched with binoculars from the top of a hill about 125 yards away as he carefully sneaked through the edge of the woods towards the deer. With about 50 yards left I was suprised that he took off his shoes! Long story short, he gets to within 25 yard which is a stretch for his shooting range, but he isn't going to get any closer. He calmly puts an arrow through the deer's heart and both lungs. The whole thing took about 20 minutes. It ran about 80 yards and died right inside the trees. We wer ehome hanging the deer before dark.
It is going to be a long time before the smile goes off his face and it is going to be a lot harder to keep him in the tree stand from now on when there are deer out in front of him. The kid is turning into quite the predator.
