Post by Gungnir on Oct 27, 2013 13:13:25 GMT -5
Thursday afternoon I'm leaving to go sit in the stand and my 4 year old daughter says she wants to go with me... and she is adamant that she goes. My wife agrees with some hesitation, we pack some snacks and head out the door. We get set up in the treestand I have sitting along a marsh and begin the wait. I got her in my winter coat, a harness around her, earplugs in and she is happy. Played on the iphone for a bit and watched the geese. Even went potty in stand in a makeshift pisspot I got up there. That cracked me up.
Well it gets around 6pm and I am looking off one way and she says real quiet "dad..they're right there!" I said what and what are you looking at...sure enough to the right of the stand coming down a little ravine and up behind the pond in front of us is two does. Well she gets real still and real quiet. Stands up and just watches. I'm freaking out more than she is. I'm pretty sure it saw us and couldn't make out what we were. it stood at the top of hill pawing the ground and looking out. My daugther kept whispering shoot it.. shoot it. I'm saying wait a bit, wait a bit. well it turned broadside to head down the hill and i thought now or never. Pulled the trigger and it ran off into the bushes. My first thought was crap its in the marsh. We walk over and find no blood trail. Then walk up the ravine to the next field and there it was. Ran about 30 yards before dropping.
She is ecstatic that she got her first deer! I might have pulled the trigger but she saw em first, watched and waited! She called her mom and gma and took off running...i got my first deer! haha .... Needless to say it was AWESOME!!! 4 years old and she was pumped!
Well it gets around 6pm and I am looking off one way and she says real quiet "dad..they're right there!" I said what and what are you looking at...sure enough to the right of the stand coming down a little ravine and up behind the pond in front of us is two does. Well she gets real still and real quiet. Stands up and just watches. I'm freaking out more than she is. I'm pretty sure it saw us and couldn't make out what we were. it stood at the top of hill pawing the ground and looking out. My daugther kept whispering shoot it.. shoot it. I'm saying wait a bit, wait a bit. well it turned broadside to head down the hill and i thought now or never. Pulled the trigger and it ran off into the bushes. My first thought was crap its in the marsh. We walk over and find no blood trail. Then walk up the ravine to the next field and there it was. Ran about 30 yards before dropping.
She is ecstatic that she got her first deer! I might have pulled the trigger but she saw em first, watched and waited! She called her mom and gma and took off running...i got my first deer! haha .... Needless to say it was AWESOME!!! 4 years old and she was pumped!
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