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LAST EDITED ON Apr-12-07 AT 01:08?PM (MST)
Jessica?s First Buck
I remember one day, I was getting all my paper work together for the up coming hunting season. When my oldest daughter said to me: ?I want to go hunting with you dad?. I told her, ?You can go with me if you like?. She said, ?No dad, I want to shoot a deer myself?. I just stood there; I couldn't believe what I just heard. I asked her if she really wanted to go hunting with me and harvest her own deer and she told me ?yes I want to hunt with you?. So I set her up in the next Hunter Safety Course. I have three girls and I decide to put them all though the course. We do a lot of shooting for fun and I hunt all the time, so I figured they will always be around guns, so they should know how to handle them safely.
After they all past the Hunter Safety Course. I applied for our hunting tags. That year we drew a local D zone tag in California. I had done some work for a friend of mine; I'm an electrician by trade. He has a large piece of property that has some nice deer on it. I asked him if I could hunt his property and he told me I could. So when archery season rolled around my brother and I hunted there to figure out where the bucks were and how to hunt this piece of ground. We seen some good bucks and my brother Kevin missed a nice 3x3 during the archery season.
Opening day was finally here, my wife told me ?please be careful, that's my baby you're taking hunting? I told her it would be ok. She also told me ?if she happens to shoot something. Make sure she is alright after ok?? I said, ?I will make sure she was ok?.
That mourning there was five of us hunting. My two brothers Kenny and Kevin, my daughter Jessica and myself and my brothers boy, Josh. Or objective this day was to get these kids their first deer. We dropped Kenny and Josh off at one end of the property and the rest of us drove around to the other side. We were going to hunt the timber and draws to Kenny and Josh to try and push the deer to them. As we started down the first draw, we heard a single shoot, I said to myself ?You have to be kidding me, ten minutes into the hunt and they shot a buck?? We waited a minute or two, and then I called Kenny on the radio, ?did you get one?? he answered ?No, He missed him?. So we started into that first draw again, when we heard another single shoot, then ?we got him that time? over the radio. We were so happy for Josh; we asked them, ?What is he?? And Kenny said, ?He?s a nice 3x3?. We told them we would be there in a few minutes.
My brother and I decided to just walk around the property and help them with the buck, then hunt back to the truck. We got to where Kenny and Josh were, and there was a nice 3x3, on the ground. We all congratulated Josh on his buck. Kenny told us he and Josh would pack the buck to the road and for us to hunt back to the truck then drive around to pick them up. So Kevin, Jessica and I stared to hunt back to the truck. Kevin said ?I will go hunt the brushy side and you two hunt the middle ridge? I said ?Ok?. We hadn't split up ten minutes or so when Kevin came over the top of the ridge, waving for us to come to him. When we got to him he said, ?Do you want Jess to shoot a forkin horn?? I told him ?yes she can shoot any buck that's legal; It's her first time hunting?. Kevin told us there was a forkey just around the hill. We walked over the other side, but the buck had gone into the heavy brush.
So we decided to just hunt back to the truck and go get Josh and Kenny. Jessica and I just started walking the ridge back, as Kevin hunted the edge of the of the brushy draw. We had walked about a hundred yards or so, when I looked up and saw the buck Kevin had seen. I told Jessica, ?there he is babe, go ahead and take him?. I handed the rifle to her to take the shot, went she said,?Dad, I can't shoot like this?. I had handed her the rifle, for a left handed shooter. I shoot left handed and she shoots right. So I got her all set up to shoot, went I looked up at the buck and there were now six bucks standing there. I told Jessica, ?take the one in the middle, but you need the other bucks to move out of the way?. As she stood there waiting all of the bucks turned and started to walk away, all but the one we wanted. When the other deer were in the clear, I said, ?Take him Jess?. I waited for the shoot and nothing, I said ?he's not going to stand there all, BLAAM?. She shot and the buck dropped in his tracks. I was so excited, I took off toward the buck to see what he was, when Kevin called on the radio, ?talk to me? I said, ?she got him, she got drop tine?. Kevin said he would be there in a minute. I stood there looking over the buck when I remembered what my wife said, ?make sure she is ok if she shoots something?. I went over to Jessica and gave her a hug and asked, ?Are you alright?? and she replied the greatest word a father could hear, ?I want another tag that was cool!? I was so proud of her; she made a great shoot and was excited to have taken her first dear. When Kevin arrived he gave her a big hug, then told her, ?That's my buck, I drew first blood?. I said, ?What are you talking about?? When he rolled the deer over and there was a long cut down the bucks? side from where Kevin?s arrow had glanced off the buck during bow season. Kevin took a shot at this buck, and when he let his arrow go the buck turned and the arrow just grazed the side of him, putting a small cut down the side of deer, not a fatal shot. Jessica told him sorry, but that buck was hers. Kevin gave her a hug. Then we took care of the deer and started back to the truck.
When we arrived to where Josh and Kenny were, they were so excited for Jessica. What a day, our objective was accomplished. Both kids got bucks. Jessica?s buck was 3x3 with a six inch drop tine eye guard. A very nice buck for her first. She has been hunting now for six years and has taken a buck each year. Jessica has become one of my brother?s favorite hunting partners and as well for me. She has even help pack bucks we have taken for over five mile back to camp and loves every minute of it. I have to say I have hunted all over, in many different states, and I believe Jessica?s first buck hunt was one for my favorite hunts of all of them and I never fired a shot.
By
Tim
Townsend
LAST EDITED ON Apr-12-07 AT 01:08?PM (MST)
Jessica?s First Buck
I remember one day, I was getting all my paper work together for the up coming hunting season. When my oldest daughter said to me: ?I want to go hunting with you dad?. I told her, ?You can go with me if you like?. She said, ?No dad, I want to shoot a deer myself?. I just stood there; I couldn't believe what I just heard. I asked her if she really wanted to go hunting with me and harvest her own deer and she told me ?yes I want to hunt with you?. So I set her up in the next Hunter Safety Course. I have three girls and I decide to put them all though the course. We do a lot of shooting for fun and I hunt all the time, so I figured they will always be around guns, so they should know how to handle them safely.
After they all past the Hunter Safety Course. I applied for our hunting tags. That year we drew a local D zone tag in California. I had done some work for a friend of mine; I'm an electrician by trade. He has a large piece of property that has some nice deer on it. I asked him if I could hunt his property and he told me I could. So when archery season rolled around my brother and I hunted there to figure out where the bucks were and how to hunt this piece of ground. We seen some good bucks and my brother Kevin missed a nice 3x3 during the archery season.
Opening day was finally here, my wife told me ?please be careful, that's my baby you're taking hunting? I told her it would be ok. She also told me ?if she happens to shoot something. Make sure she is alright after ok?? I said, ?I will make sure she was ok?.
That mourning there was five of us hunting. My two brothers Kenny and Kevin, my daughter Jessica and myself and my brothers boy, Josh. Or objective this day was to get these kids their first deer. We dropped Kenny and Josh off at one end of the property and the rest of us drove around to the other side. We were going to hunt the timber and draws to Kenny and Josh to try and push the deer to them. As we started down the first draw, we heard a single shoot, I said to myself ?You have to be kidding me, ten minutes into the hunt and they shot a buck?? We waited a minute or two, and then I called Kenny on the radio, ?did you get one?? he answered ?No, He missed him?. So we started into that first draw again, when we heard another single shoot, then ?we got him that time? over the radio. We were so happy for Josh; we asked them, ?What is he?? And Kenny said, ?He?s a nice 3x3?. We told them we would be there in a few minutes.
My brother and I decided to just walk around the property and help them with the buck, then hunt back to the truck. We got to where Kenny and Josh were, and there was a nice 3x3, on the ground. We all congratulated Josh on his buck. Kenny told us he and Josh would pack the buck to the road and for us to hunt back to the truck then drive around to pick them up. So Kevin, Jessica and I stared to hunt back to the truck. Kevin said ?I will go hunt the brushy side and you two hunt the middle ridge? I said ?Ok?. We hadn't split up ten minutes or so when Kevin came over the top of the ridge, waving for us to come to him. When we got to him he said, ?Do you want Jess to shoot a forkin horn?? I told him ?yes she can shoot any buck that's legal; It's her first time hunting?. Kevin told us there was a forkey just around the hill. We walked over the other side, but the buck had gone into the heavy brush.
So we decided to just hunt back to the truck and go get Josh and Kenny. Jessica and I just started walking the ridge back, as Kevin hunted the edge of the of the brushy draw. We had walked about a hundred yards or so, when I looked up and saw the buck Kevin had seen. I told Jessica, ?there he is babe, go ahead and take him?. I handed the rifle to her to take the shot, went she said,?Dad, I can't shoot like this?. I had handed her the rifle, for a left handed shooter. I shoot left handed and she shoots right. So I got her all set up to shoot, went I looked up at the buck and there were now six bucks standing there. I told Jessica, ?take the one in the middle, but you need the other bucks to move out of the way?. As she stood there waiting all of the bucks turned and started to walk away, all but the one we wanted. When the other deer were in the clear, I said, ?Take him Jess?. I waited for the shoot and nothing, I said ?he's not going to stand there all, BLAAM?. She shot and the buck dropped in his tracks. I was so excited, I took off toward the buck to see what he was, when Kevin called on the radio, ?talk to me? I said, ?she got him, she got drop tine?. Kevin said he would be there in a minute. I stood there looking over the buck when I remembered what my wife said, ?make sure she is ok if she shoots something?. I went over to Jessica and gave her a hug and asked, ?Are you alright?? and she replied the greatest word a father could hear, ?I want another tag that was cool!? I was so proud of her; she made a great shoot and was excited to have taken her first dear. When Kevin arrived he gave her a big hug, then told her, ?That's my buck, I drew first blood?. I said, ?What are you talking about?? When he rolled the deer over and there was a long cut down the bucks? side from where Kevin?s arrow had glanced off the buck during bow season. Kevin took a shot at this buck, and when he let his arrow go the buck turned and the arrow just grazed the side of him, putting a small cut down the side of deer, not a fatal shot. Jessica told him sorry, but that buck was hers. Kevin gave her a hug. Then we took care of the deer and started back to the truck.
When we arrived to where Josh and Kenny were, they were so excited for Jessica. What a day, our objective was accomplished. Both kids got bucks. Jessica?s buck was 3x3 with a six inch drop tine eye guard. A very nice buck for her first. She has been hunting now for six years and has taken a buck each year. Jessica has become one of my brother?s favorite hunting partners and as well for me. She has even help pack bucks we have taken for over five mile back to camp and loves every minute of it. I have to say I have hunted all over, in many different states, and I believe Jessica?s first buck hunt was one for my favorite hunts of all of them and I never fired a shot.
By
Tim
Townsend
How old was she when she took that buck? Are your other daughters hunting by now?
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