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Thread: Bartell Junior's first buck

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    Bartell Junior's first buck

    We got his junior license at 9am when he turned 10 (well technically 10 years + 1 day, as his birthday fell on Thanksgiving this year and Service BC was closed on his birthday). We headed out and seen about ten mule deer does that morning. A week before, we set up a ground blind and the plan for the afternoon was to sneak into it and sit until dark. Hudson was pretty pumped to finally be the shooter!



    We slipped up the hill towards the ground blind. I spot a deer standing just on the other side of the rise. We freeze and crouch down - the deer looked like it had something coming out of it's head, but there was some twigs in the way. I lift up the binos and the deer turned it's head and the twig moved with it - it's a buck! A little 2 point, missing his right antler . This buck is now named Twig by Zero

    I whisper to Hudson that it's a buck, his eyes got wide and I help him quietly chamber a round. I crawled by him up the slow a few feet and set up the tripod for him to rest his rifle on. Twig by Zero was facing us, but now has turned broadside. He's getting nervous walks a few steps and is behind some brush 25 yards away. I was a bit dejected at the fleeting opportunity, but a second later a second buck walks right up behind his smaller buddy and is staring us down. I whisper to my son "here's another buck and he has both antlers" - my son sharply whisperers back "I want the one antler buck!" OMG kids...LOL I say "shoot this buck!" he gets the buck in his scope, which is facing us frontal. My kid has done really good playing the shot angle game on google images, looking at animals at different angles and his proposed placement is usually spot on. I just told him to center up the reticle on the front of the bucks chest and reminded him to sloooowly squeeze (he's not opposed to jerkin' the trigger hard sometimes at the range)

    It seemed like a long time, but it was only a few seconds with the rifle barked. BOOM! Buck lurches forwards towards us a few bounds, then turns and peels off towards Twig by Zero. I yelled Reload, Reload! The buck is now out of sight. I spot a buck bounding out in the field, I raise binos and see it only has one antler. Twig by Zero! I scan left and see a deer down.

    We shared a huge hug, tears of jubilation - "You did it buddy, you got your first buck!" - I make a phone call to Mama, put her on speaker phone and pass the phone to Hudson "Buck down mama, buck down!" the emotions were flowing!



    The two bucks were literally 10' away from our ground blind LOL We walk up, more bucks scatter from not far away! he gets to lay hands on his first buck! Life is great

    "If you ever go into the bush, there are grizzly bears lurking behind just about every bush, waiting to pounce, so you need a powerful gun, with huge bullets" - Gatehouse ~ 2004

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    "If you ever go into the bush, there are grizzly bears lurking behind just about every bush, waiting to pounce, so you need a powerful gun, with huge bullets" - Gatehouse ~ 2004

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    Re: Bartell Junior's first buck

    awesome!!!!! That's one happy young man "hell of a shot too".

    Very well done dad

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    Good for him! One happy boy. And a big good for you as well. Isn’t it the best feeling watching your kid get their first animal.
    my daughter got her first deer this season as well. Best feeling ever
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    Re: Bartell Junior's first buck

    Great high quality pics to go with a great quality time story! Good for both of you.

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    Re: Bartell Junior's first buck

    Congratulations young man !! Nice buck wahoo
    Shhhhitttt I got this hold my beer

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    Re: Bartell Junior's first buck

    Congratulations!!

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    Nice!!!!!!
    It is well to try and journey ones road and to fight with the air.Man must die! At worst he can die a little sooner." (H Ryder Haggard)

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    Re: Bartell Junior's first buck

    Awesome, congrats to you and your son!

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    The stuff dreams are made from .Congrats Hudson .
    "The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance." Cicero - 55 BC
    ..... The NDP approach: if the facts don't fit your ideology, just pretend the facts don't exist.......

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