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LAST EDITED ON Nov-08-12 AT 10:21AM (MST)[p]Hey all,
I got my very first bull elk (see other post in the Monster Elk forum), and thought that was going to be the highlight of my hunting season. Well, I was wrong...my 16 year old daughter Whitney shot her very first buck on the evening of opening day of the general rifle hunt on the same public land we've been hunting for years! Her and I were driving along a dirt road on the mountain getting ready to head back to camp. Two small bucks ran across the road about 50 yards in front of us. They started heading up the hill into the trees so we slammed on the brakes and got off the 4wheeler. She grabbed her rifle and loaded a round into it while I was whistling trying to stop the bucks. She ran into the trees to try and get a clear shot at one of them. Both bucks had stopped some distance up the hill in the trees. Without even a dead rest (she said later that when the shot presented itself, there was no tree nearby, and she didn't have time to set up a rest...she's never done that before!) Whitney shot and dropped one of them on the spot with one shot from her .223! 75 yards, through the trees ,uphill, with no rest! She is awesome! All that range time paid off. This isn't her first big game, as she has taken a couple of doe antelopes before, and her and her friend (also a girl) were both featured on Adam Eakles show "Snapshot of the Week" last year with their doe antelopes, but this is her very first buck. This is by far the biggest highlight of my hunting season this year and I am really proud of her. She has put in (semi reluctantly I might add...she's more into boys these days...) hours upon hours of range time and has shot literally hundreds of rounds from her rifle. All of you fathers reading this with young sons or daughters know exactly how I felt. I took the head in to have it Euro-mounted, and I also took the hide in the have a blanket/throw made for her. It's cool as there is just a single bullet hole in it! Here are a couple of pics.
I got my very first bull elk (see other post in the Monster Elk forum), and thought that was going to be the highlight of my hunting season. Well, I was wrong...my 16 year old daughter Whitney shot her very first buck on the evening of opening day of the general rifle hunt on the same public land we've been hunting for years! Her and I were driving along a dirt road on the mountain getting ready to head back to camp. Two small bucks ran across the road about 50 yards in front of us. They started heading up the hill into the trees so we slammed on the brakes and got off the 4wheeler. She grabbed her rifle and loaded a round into it while I was whistling trying to stop the bucks. She ran into the trees to try and get a clear shot at one of them. Both bucks had stopped some distance up the hill in the trees. Without even a dead rest (she said later that when the shot presented itself, there was no tree nearby, and she didn't have time to set up a rest...she's never done that before!) Whitney shot and dropped one of them on the spot with one shot from her .223! 75 yards, through the trees ,uphill, with no rest! She is awesome! All that range time paid off. This isn't her first big game, as she has taken a couple of doe antelopes before, and her and her friend (also a girl) were both featured on Adam Eakles show "Snapshot of the Week" last year with their doe antelopes, but this is her very first buck. This is by far the biggest highlight of my hunting season this year and I am really proud of her. She has put in (semi reluctantly I might add...she's more into boys these days...) hours upon hours of range time and has shot literally hundreds of rounds from her rifle. All of you fathers reading this with young sons or daughters know exactly how I felt. I took the head in to have it Euro-mounted, and I also took the hide in the have a blanket/throw made for her. It's cool as there is just a single bullet hole in it! Here are a couple of pics.