Proud Dad here!

[PolarBear]

This is my 13 year old daughter's second year of deer hunting.  Last year she got a nice 2 point blacktail and made a textbook, perfect shot.  This year she had been passing on bucks left and right during regular season saying that she wants a bigger one.  Fast forward to today.   We had planned to go for an evening hunt after she got out of school.  I happen to have the day off.  As I pick her up I ask "Ya ready to go huntin'?  "The weather is just right".  She asked if we could wait until tomorrow.  I asked why.  She then tells me that her best friend since age 5, who she went through hunter's ed with has been hunting for 3 years and still hasn't gotten a deer and that she felt bad.  To make things worse, her friend's dad has barely hunted with her this year and has picked this week to go hunt out of state and leave her behind.    My daughter tells me that she knows that the conditions are perfect right now but she wants any buck that we see for her friend to be able to shoot it and then maybe my daughter would shoot the next one.    So, her friend is spending the night so we can hit it early in the AM and try our hardest to get that lil gal her first buck!  I'm so proud of my daughter for thinking of her friend first instead of herself!  You don't see that very often in kids these days.

[vandeman17]

Very cool. Proud papa!

[runamuk]

That is awesome and good luck tomorrow.....

[Boss .300 winmag]

 

[BOWHUNTER45]

that's so cool she understands the meaning of being with friends and family and she could careless if she shoots the deer or not  To her 

[Natures Way]

Good luck to all of you!

[mdbuck5x5]

That is awesome 

[jollyskwala]

You ROCK!!!!!!!

[wadu1]

that's so cool she understands the meaning of being with friends and family and she could careless if she shoots the deer or not  To her 

Dad; You have a special young lady in your daughter, knows more about friends and family than most people.

[mrmoskillz]

This is awesome post up some pics toomorrow

[rosscrazyelk]

As I have said before. I love hearing when kids harvest animals.. Congrats

[runningboard]

awesome young lady, shows what kind of parents raised her, good on all of you   

[SemperFidelis97]

You are doing something right with your kids keep it up, and good luck.

[deerhunter_98520]

 

[Ice monkey]

Awesome!


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[PolarBear]

Thanks folks!  We are really looking forward to tomorrow.  Yeah, I have to say that both of my girls are very kind hearted and think of others before themselves.  We consider my daughter's friend as our own kid as well.  Hopefully we will have a couple of bucks down and 2 very happy girls tomorrow!  We have 30-40 mph winds and rain right now, it should be perfect for hunting blacktails in the NW jungle!

[akirkland]

Love this post. It speaks volumes of you and your wife's parenting. Great job Polar.

[PolarBear]

Thank you, I really appreciate it!

[jay.sharkbait]

Love this post. It speaks volumes of you and your wife's parenting. Great job Polar.

I agree

[buck man]

You've got a good girl there!!! :tup:go get em and good luck!

[Birdguy]

  Way to go Dad and Daughter..... Bring on the pictures of two happy girls and two great aniamls 

[SkookumHntr]

That would make me proud too! I cant wait for my daughter to beable to hunt! Just acouple more years to go!

[PolarBear]

Thanks for all the kind words everybody!  We gave it our all today with no luck.  We covered several miles of wetside jungle and 10 year old reprod on foot.  We snuck up on a doe and stayed with her for an hour 1/2 or more with no other deer around.  We set up next to a big marsh surrounded by timber and a super fresh rub.  Rattled something in but all we could tell is that it sounded like a doe came in and a buck followed and mounted her.  We heard what sounded like a doe laboring and another deer, probably a buck grunting and tearing up the ground.  The brush was so thick that we couldn't see a thing and once the grunting and groaning stopped they left.  We could not call them back for anything even with a good scent trail and the wind (about 20 mph) in our faces.  Maybe we didn't give the buck enough time for his refractory period.    We are working on details for tomorrow.  It might be myself, my daughter, her best friend and the son of another friend, all of them under 13.  If I can keep them from being goofballs in the woods (save that for the truck  ), it should be a fun time.  If we are not able to fill any tags tomorrow, I have promised that one weekend very soon I will give all the kids a coyote clinic and teach them how to call and snipe song dogs. 

[Birdguy]

Good luck tomorrow and the coyote hunting is a great idea. Gives the kids the chance to hunt out side of our short deer season and when they connect it does great things for the confidence of the kids...worked great for mine anyway  .

[Birdguy]

After shooting light, no report....hoping for good news  .

[PolarBear]

Well, all plans kinda fell apart yesterday.  My daughter's bestest friend decided to go road hunting with her Grandpa and my buddie's son went out for about 2 hours with his Dad in the morning.  Neither one of them saw any deer.  My Daughter and I took a little hike in the morning monsoon and discovered that the deer were in hiding and not willing to come out and play no matter how hard we tried.  We decided to take a road trip to dry out (both soaked to the drawers) and find a completely new area to try as a last ditch effort. Unfortunately, all we found was Weyco and Western Pacific land that was either permit only or walk in, which would have fine except for the 5 rigs at every gate, or state land that was closed due to vandalism.  We wound up driving through 3 counties looking or land to hunt before we got fed up.    We should have gone to Shelton where I know there is open land instead but we wanted to try something new.  Oh well, my daughter still has late muzzy elk.  Unfortunately, her friend is done for the year for big game.  We still have coyotes and a BB gun shoot to look forward to keep them in the game.