Post by Big Joe on Dec 22, 2017 9:57:35 GMT -5
Ok, I am going to try this again..... I hope I am finished now. The girl and her parents got here at 5 this morning and by 6 we were in stands. Yes even mom hunted in the cold. Dad had the other girl with him and J went with the mom. About 7:45 we here a shot and I tell her stay ready if they spook them they will be moving faster than we need. About 5 or so minutes later 4 doe come meandering down the trail, just sniffing here and nibbling on whatever they saw eatable. I had been teasing her earlier about you have to shoot your first deer in the eye so you blind all the others you will hunt. So she gets all set and I start to think this is not going to end well, she is taking forever on the shot. I have mine up and ready too just in case she wounds it. I am thinking she is on the closest, a smaller but still nice doe, but no she wants the biggest in the bunch. I wait and as she pulls the trigger I follow suit just to make sure its down.... well when the smoke clears we have 2 down and she is smiling like everyone who gets their first deer.... we set there high fiving and all the stuff that goes along with a good kill, then call in the kill. We get down and we hear a atv coming from behind us. Its Ty coming to help collect the animals, we get to them all about the same time.... She is now the hero of the year, hers had the top of its head missing...... So I blow our proto call and put it out on the radio, and that pretty much stops any hunting that was going on. Her dad got a spike - he said he was just helping thin the ugly ones - but his luck has been not so well this year and he took the shot offered, I would have done it too. Anyway 3 deer in less than an hour and back to the house in under 2 hrs. They took pictures so I will see about getting a few of them. Then she calls her other grandpa and tells him what she did and he says he doesn't believer her. SO load their deer in the truck and head to his house, both still ungutted. So Ty and I clean, skin and hang mine and now we are coffeeing up and will run to town later for some vac bags. He texted his dad to let him know and we got a text back saying he and tater both got a small doe and a pig apiece so we need to find a few older adults that just need meat in their freezers... J was talking about still going tomorrow but now she wants to hunt at the lease.
Right now the women are plotting against me - want to ride to town with us to finish the monthly restocking at the other stores we hit besides Sam's.... I see this as costing me lunch and a few extras at Cabela's. I need to pick up some 22-250 brass and had my spiel all worked out for Ty but with both of them there its going to be dicey at best. Maybe I can figure something out, this is all Santa's fault he could at least give me a sign LOL...
I think I lost the 6x45 to the girl, she shoots regularly but has only shot this one 8 times including todays 1 shot... One day I have to learn not to jack with the kids. Her dad ask why she shot it in the head -- "cause papa said that's where you shoot them". He just about rolled out on the ground laughing so hard. Well got to scoot, the boy just came in with the cleaning box, time to clean and put away the rifles for the year. Get out the squirrel guns and see where that leads.