CamoMan
New Member
Hey gang, I'm very excited. My 11-year old son, Taylor, got his first deer Friday afternoon. Until about a month ago, I wasn't even planning on having him muzzleloader hunt, but he asked to shoot it one afternoon, and I found out he was a pretty good shot.
We were hunting a cornfield, and expected the deer to enter it from a timber point in front of us in about an hour. However 10 minutes after settling in a large tree stand in an old cottonwood tree, 5 deer showed up about 125 yards to our left. They quickly worked their way in front of us about 75 yards out, and we saw that one was a decent buck. Taylor wasn't able to get into position to shoot before the buck went over the terrace, and three of the four does quickly followed. The last one noticed us, but hung around long enough to give Taylor a broadside shot at 70 yards, and he made a perfect shot. The doe went over the hill, and we found her within 100 yards. She was a very large doe, and one guy who weighs a lot of deer thought she would weigh at least 160 pounds.
Talk about getting excited . . . (oh yeah, my son was too). We had a video camera with us, and I took some footage of the deer coming in, and of Taylor shooting. It was difficult, because I was trying to stay with the deer, and help my son at the same time. The footage is jerky, but you can tell that we were both pumped after the shot. I love my boy beyond description, and I am 100% proud of him. It wouldn't have changed if he had missed, but I was especially proud of how he took responsibility for 'his deer'. I didn't have to teach him the 'you shot it - you gut it' philosophy, and he even jumped in and helped skin and butcher it.
Well, I gotta go now . . . Taylor's deer steaks are done cooking and ready to eat !
