Youth Season Success and a Little Introduction

[Stone Sheep Steve]

She's pretty much grown up on HBC.....mostly as a retriever and hunting companion. Her passion for the outdoors and animal knowledge is only matched by her ear-to-ear smiles.
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[Stone Sheep Steve]

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She turned 10 in late November last year...a little too late to get her CORE done but she easily passed this spring with flying colors.

So with the youth season approaching we found ourselves heading into the hills to hopefully find her first buck.
We managed to find a few bucks the day before the opener and found one buck late in the evening that drew out att'n.
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By 5am we were out of bed and quickly got ready to head back to the same area as we found the buck the evening before.
Just as we were getting ready to leave Calvin rolled into camp to give us a generous helping hand.

As we approached the area I looked back and caught the form of a nice buck feeding unaware of our presence. We bailed out and Jamie immediately asked how far it was. I quickly ranged the buck at 175 yards but said she wasn't comfortable shooting at that distance so we started making our way up the road just as Calvin was pulling up the rear and was trying to get our attention. He too had seen the buck, in fact, he had seen 2 different bucks.....a 4x4 and a 3x3. Calvin knew we had a view of the buck from further up the road and soon we were able to cut the distance to 106 yards.
With a good solid rest Jamie squeezed off a round from her 7mm-08 and the buck immediately jumped and kicked. Calvin said he saw the bullet impact a little behind the front shoulder and with the buck quartering away we were confident we would find the buck a short distance away.
After a short wait, Jamie picked up the blood trail and we soon found her buck just inside the timber's edge.:-D

So, I would like to introduce a new member to HBC.....SnowshoeSniper (SsS)!

Congrats SsS! You have one proud Dad!

[Stone Sheep Steve]

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I'd like to thank Calvin for all his help and those who were involved to make our youth seasons in the southern half of the province:). Those seasons really work!

SSS

[BuckNaked]

Awesome job!

[pnbrock]

very nice indeed!!she should be very proud as you should be dad!!

[Rackem]

So great to see! Congratulations to the skilled huntress!

[moosinaround]

Good work SsS, SSS, and Calvin!!!! A veteran hunter already that young lady is!! Stones sheep in a few years hey dad??!!!! Moosin

[adriaticum]

Very nice!

[ncurrie]

That's so cool congrats to all of you guys!!

[Darksith]

very nice, congrats! Simply awesome

[SnowshoeSniper]

Well, I better make a post! :wink: Thank you everyone, really means a lot to me, first claimed buck on opening day! Got one last year on the first day we went out, just after I had turned ten. Never found it until a few days later, and a cougar had got to it before us, and the meat was nearly gone. My day got the antlers though! I definitely am excited to get out on the weekends for some whitetail hunting, and perhaps some more muley hunting in region four. Also, I wanted to thank Kelvin as well for spotting the buck I took, and also for helping skin it and bring it back up to the road. Once again, thank you everyone for the congrats and praises about my deer! :-D

[field marshal]

Great job on a beauty buck!!!:-D Congrats to all especially dad for getting you involved in the outdoor pursuits!
Love your HBC handle by the way!----Cheers----Field Marshal.

[Blainer]

one of the finest threads so far!
No politics, No arguements, just a great successful hunt with pictures!
You go girl!
SSS rocks!

[SnowshoeSniper]

Great job on a beauty buck!!!:-D Congrats to all especially dad for getting you involved in the outdoor pursuits!
Love your HBC handle by the way!----Cheers----Field Marshal.


one of the finest threads so far!
No politics, No arguements, just a great successful hunt with pictures!
You go girl!
SSS rocks! Thank you both,as I said before, definitely was a fun experience, and improved my hunting skill, from my point of view. :-D Good luck with your guy's hunting as well, hope you get a buck before the season closes! :wink:

[Bear Chaser]

Congratulations Young Miss on a nice buck.
Looks like you are a mean hombre when it comes to the rabbits also.:-D

[sheep.elk.moose fanatic]

Awesome congrats !!!

[GoatGuy]

Great job Jamie, nice buck!!!!

[calvin L]

Well there is no thanks needed as you are family . SsS you are the closest they to a daughter I have . I would/will do it all over again in a second . I think be there to witness you getting your first buck , was more fun than taking my own . I can't wait until Brayden/ Austin are doing the same thing . It will be cool to have you pack out his first buck :mrgreen: . Again kiddo I enjoyed all of it . The biggest congrats to yourself and your Dad.

[nano]

Welcome to the site,Congrats on the buck!

[coach]

Awesome buck, SsS! Your dad emailed me the pictures and they came in when I had a small pocket of cell reception while helping Shootthesheep's 11 year old daughter on her youth hunt. Very impressive story and pictures. A huge congratulations to you, SSS and Calvin.

[6 K]

Very very awesome Great job SsS and good work dad

[horshur]

Good hunting!!!

[lorneparker1]

Man, my daughter is three and I cant wait for this day!! totally awesome!

Lorne

[Stone Sheep Steve]

Well there is no thanks needed as you are family . SsS you are the closest they to a daughter I have . I would/will do it all over again in a second . I think be there to witness you getting your first buck , was more fun than taking my own . I can't wait until Brayden/ Austin are doing the same thing . It will be cool to have you pack out his first buck :mrgreen: . Again kiddo I enjoyed all of it . The biggest congrats to yourself and your Dad.

Maybe you can chapperone her on her first date!
Was good to have both of you as partners. You both add fun into the mix!


Awesome buck, SsS! Your dad emailed me the pictures and they came in when I had a small pocket of cell reception while helping Shootthesheep's 11 year old daughter on her youth hunt. Very impressive story and pictures. A huge congratulations to you, SSS and Calvin.

Best of luck on STS's daughter's hunt! I know you guys will work hard for her.

SSS

[5 spike]

Great pics congrats to all of you.

[spear]

AWESOME, love hearing about the ids getting into it. Great job

[Sitkaspruce]

Awsome SsS and Dad, SSS, way to go!!!

Congrats to a great start to an adicting hobby!!!

Nice buck and the smile tells it all!!!

welcome to the SS's team...;-)

Cheers

SS

[Stone Sheep Steve]

Awsome SsS and Dad, SSS, way to go!!!

Congrats to a great start to an adicting hobby!!!

Nice buck and the smile tells it all!!!

welcome to the SS's team...;-)

Cheers

SS

LOL! I tried to convince her to go with snowshoesniper so it would be "sss". My old eyes see the first and last letters and fill in the rest.:)

[frenchbar]

What a great buck ! congrats to your daughter .

[Ourea]

Great job SSS for your commitment and dedication to investing in family.
Having said that let's move on to what counts......

More importantly congrats to SsS!!!!!!!!
Great deer and love "your" posts.
Good job girl.

Hopefully u share more with/under dad's support .

SsS.....Your grammar, spelling. and great communication skills are obvious.

Hope you post more as a result.
We all look forward to it.

Again, great buck!!


Kind Regards


Ourea

[ydouask]

Doing it right again, Congratulations !

[6616]

Way to go you guys..!

[Alpine85]

Fantastic!!!! Congrats on the buck and good on yah Brent.

[Gateholio]

Congratulations!

SnowshoeSniper, make sure you enter our fall hunting contest. Usually some good youth prizes to win! :)

[835]

Great buck SsS, I can see how you got that handle! lol

Steve im sure your a proud guy!

[kodeman]

Great job and beautiful buck!!!

[SnowshoeSniper]

Great job SSS for your commitment and dedication to investing in family.
Having said that let's move on to what counts......

More importantly congrats to SsS!!!!!!!!
Great deer and love "your" posts.
Good job girl.

Hopefully u share more with/under dad's support .

SsS.....Your grammar, spelling. and great communication skills are obvious.

Hope you post more as a result.
We all look forward to it.

Again, great buck!!


Kind Regards


Ourea Thank you very much, I have never really been commented on such, I will be sure to post more in the future! I see my dad as someone to look up to, he knows a lot more about hunting then I do. Heck, the spot the buck was in, the night before I didn't like the area, guess I lack in patience! :-D

[Elkhound]

Thats awesome guys. Another young hunting girl on HBC. Very cool

[kennyj]

Way to go SsS. That is a beautiful buck! Congratulations on your first of many.
kenny

[nature girl]

Congradulations on the great deer you shot.
I bet you were pretty excited.
I bet the boys at school know not to mess with you.

[Salty]

That's a whole lot of awesome :-D congratulations on a nice buck SsS!

[elkhunterette]

Congrats to your daughter!

[Stone Sheep Steve]

More importantly congrats to SsS!!!!!!!!
Great deer and love "your" posts.
Good job girl.

Hopefully u share more with/under dad's support .

SsS.....Your grammar, spelling. and great communication skills are obvious.

Hope you post more as a result.
We all look forward to it.

Again, great buck!!


Kind Regards


Ourea

Aside from being an avid reader, SsS also likes to write short stories and has been doing that for a few years already. Don't know many kids her age that can sit down and pound out a few thousands words in a few hours. Her other knick name is "verbal"...communication specialist:-D.


Congratulations!

SnowshoeSniper, make sure you enter our fall hunting contest. Usually some good youth prizes to win! :)

I'll be sure to remind SsS to enter the contest when the time nears.

Speaking of youth prizes, we both need to re-thank Marc and HBC for the calendar picture youth contest that "we" won a few years ago. We put the winnings towards a Vortex diamondback scope that now sits atop SsS's Remmy Model Seven. 8) It's a sweet little set up!
Also need to thank those who offered up the reduced load for the rifle....Gate and Bartel!:)

SSS

[BigfishCanada]

Super cool, I have my daughter shooting a bow. I can imagine how proud you are, and from what I cant tell a great dad!