fairchaser
Well-Known Member
My son and I took my 6 year old grandson on his second trip to kill a deer on public land. No shooting houses, no food plots ; just raw dogging it on some public land from the ground.
My grandson only lasts and hour or so before he's ready to do something else. He's kinda fidgety anyway so he's not gonna sit still anywhere but he likes to go do stuff. Armed with his daisy red rider, he's shooting at anything and everything that moves.
We wanted some clean venison free from the threat of CWD so we traveled as far east as we could and found ourselves sitting on a TN river bank at 8:30 this morning. That's the earliest we could manage to get there. We had been there a little over an hour.
Needless to say, we had a number of factors working against us. My son said to me. We aren't gonna kill anything today. I had to agree that the odds were great against us. I whispered a prayer, Lord if we are going to get something, somethings got to happen pretty soon.
After a few minutes, my son said he saw a flicker of movement in the woods about 400 yds away. He was intently watching through his binos. About that time, my grandson said hey there's some deer and I look up to see a herd of does, running out the other end but very near us. Only a little water separating us from the deer. I got my son's attention and he got on them quickly. I started mouth grunting to get them to slow their roll and it worked. My son picked out a larger doe and shot. I saw her stumble and hit the water. She had just enough life to get across the water to our side.
The Lord put her right in our laps and delivered her to our doorstep. We were elated and learned some great lessons as well. Some lifetime memories were created today. Thank you Lord!
My grandson only lasts and hour or so before he's ready to do something else. He's kinda fidgety anyway so he's not gonna sit still anywhere but he likes to go do stuff. Armed with his daisy red rider, he's shooting at anything and everything that moves.
We wanted some clean venison free from the threat of CWD so we traveled as far east as we could and found ourselves sitting on a TN river bank at 8:30 this morning. That's the earliest we could manage to get there. We had been there a little over an hour.
Needless to say, we had a number of factors working against us. My son said to me. We aren't gonna kill anything today. I had to agree that the odds were great against us. I whispered a prayer, Lord if we are going to get something, somethings got to happen pretty soon.
After a few minutes, my son said he saw a flicker of movement in the woods about 400 yds away. He was intently watching through his binos. About that time, my grandson said hey there's some deer and I look up to see a herd of does, running out the other end but very near us. Only a little water separating us from the deer. I got my son's attention and he got on them quickly. I started mouth grunting to get them to slow their roll and it worked. My son picked out a larger doe and shot. I saw her stumble and hit the water. She had just enough life to get across the water to our side.
The Lord put her right in our laps and delivered her to our doorstep. We were elated and learned some great lessons as well. Some lifetime memories were created today. Thank you Lord!
