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3fletch
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My daughter turned 12 in December and this was her first year to hunt. We left on Friday afternoon and when we got to the area we were hunting we saw several bucks and she was pretty excited for opening morning. Well after a sleepless night for both of us we headed out and spotted several does two small forked horn bucks and two four point bucks. We couldn't get on them early because they were 250+ yards and we only felt comfortable shooting out to 150. We let them move up into a juniper covered ridge and we followed. When we got close (120 yards) they started heading over the ridge one by one. I set up the bi pod and got her rested on it with a clear shooting lane to the deer. As they filtered by she was telling me what they were "doe, doe, small buck, small buck etc." I told her that the last two were good bucks and to try to get on one. When the last buck came into view it made the fatal mistake of stopping to look back like mule deer tend to do. She said "I see the big one" and I told her to squeeze the trigger. She shot and the deer jumped "heart shot" into the air and took off. We waited about 20 minutes then proceeded to track the deer he went about 60 yards with a perfect heart shot and no exit wound. I am one proud Papa. I will post the field pictures when I get them from my buddy. But here is the deer back at our meat locker.
I'd rather be huntin!!!!
I'd rather be huntin!!!!
