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Daughter's first deer!
For almost a couple months she's been doing half day hunts every day on the weekend. We'd had a couple opportunities, but due to the variables of brush and animal position that one often encounters when bush hunting, she'd not managed to get a shot she was comfortable taking. In general it had been a bit dissapointing, and I was quite proud of her for staying persistant and positive for so long.
Yesterday we hunted out of a natural ground blind that we'd built last winter. The beauty of this particular blind is that the deer time their evening arival with the thermal switch, coming down the ridge as the thermal is rising but ariving at the bottom almost precisely at the time it switches to downhill. So if you know when that switch will happen, and if the deer show up, then the wait should be relatively short.
After about a 40 minuit wait a forkhorn blew through so fast we barely had time to react. I figured, "If that deer isnt chasing anything then something must be chasing him". "Get your rifle up!" I whispered, sure enough a few seconds later a somewhat larger buck came barreling down the trail, luck was with us and with a loud shout I brought him to a stop right in an opening, about 30 yards away. Since there was no snow for tracking I whispered "Shoot him in the shoulder", and the 30-30 went off.
 RIMG0095 by , on Flickr
 RIMG0096 by , on Flickr
Either because of a deflection or buck fever she ended up breaking its neck instead of its shoulders, so we got a bit lucky with that too. You can see our brush pile blind up the hill in the background of the second picture.
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Great job, congrats!
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That's the way to do it! Nice deer!
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Terrific! Congratulations to your daughter!
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11-13-2024, 11:25 AM
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Way to go , great first deer, it will be good eating
Congrats on a great shot , no sense in waisting meat shooting it in the shoulder
Might as well knock it down right there in the neck
Great shot
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11-13-2024, 11:35 AM
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Congrats. Great to see these firsts.
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11-13-2024, 11:38 AM
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Congrats to her! 
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11-13-2024, 12:06 PM
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The one's that drop all count
Great job!
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11-13-2024, 12:13 PM
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Well done!
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Congrats to your daughter for sticking with it and not getting discouraged, and to you for the mentoring, beauty buck, another young hunter in the making, priceless
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Simply awesome!
Congratulations all around!!!
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Quote:
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Way to go , great first deer, it will be good eating
Congrats on a great shot , no sense in waisting meat shooting it in the shoulder
Might as well knock it down right there in the neck
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All true, but we are talking about a new hunter shooting their first deer... no way would I have told her to go for the neck. And while I dont like to take shoulder shots myself, wanting the first deer to be as good of an experience as possible... a quick kill and a short tracking job, I stand by that decision.
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11-13-2024, 01:30 PM
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Nice work! Congrats to you both
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11-13-2024, 01:33 PM
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Congrats to the Huntress on a nice buck.
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11-13-2024, 01:40 PM
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That is fantastic, and all kinds of awesome!...
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Simply awesome! A great deer and even better memories.
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11-13-2024, 02:20 PM
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awesome
Very cool,congratulations to the young hunter
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Quote:
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This x20
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Beautiful. You just made memories that will last a lifetime for the both of you.
Well done Dad!
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Great job Dad & Daughter. It doesn't get any better than this does it.
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Fantastic, well done daughter and Dad!
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Congrats to both of you on her first. So nice to see a person get their first and the excitement that goes along with the event.
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That’s awesome! A day neither of you will ever forget!
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That is just awesome!
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Congrats young lady well done!!
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Well done dad, and congrats to your daughter!! 
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11-13-2024, 09:39 PM
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The 30-30 takes down another deer. Well done.
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Hard to beat family time afield! Well done Dad, daughter, & family!
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Excellent to see and well done on your daughter's first deer!!
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Congrats, thats everything awesome right there!
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