wife and son's first deer "08

[Fishpimp]

i had the best year ever. my wife and son both passed hunters safety and they got to go hunting this year. it was great i played guide most of the season but it was well worth it{ i ended up with 2 bears and a big blacktail, i passed a ton of small bucks in idaho the last weekend of season}

we were hunting a wheat field in mid october . we saw a few bucks sparing  ,just playing, but we thought we should stick out a buck decoy and see what would happen. right about dark a doe stormed up to my decoy and stomped her feet and kept blowing at it. this went on for about 5 minutes. then she all of a sudden took off.  she ran over a rise and when she came up the other side she had a huge bodied deer with her. i quickly glassed it and i saw horns but they sure didn't match the body. i told my son to take his time and get a good rest, he put up his model 99 .243 and squeezed off a shot,poof down he goes. the buck dropped in his tracks at 181 yards. it was his first buck. i think i was more excited then my son was. i got it all on film to.   
to make it even better my wife was by herself about a mile away  hunting. about 1 hour before my son shot his deer, i heard a boom in the distance. then my cell phone went off, it was my wife mumbling  about  buck,shot,kicked like a donkey, trotted off slowly with tail down, i think i hit him, etc.etc. i told her to leave it alone till i can get there.  so basically my wife and son scored the same night on there first deer about 1 hour apart. it was a long night but well worth it.
she ended up shoting a little 2x3  at 45 yards, she hit it right in the "goodie box". when i got there there was a little tuff of hair and almost no blood. there was no blood trail to follow. we would find a piece of fat or meat about the size of a grain of rice about every 10 feet. both my uncles were there and we looked for 2 hours. they were trying to calm her down,she thought she made a bad shot and maybe wounded it and was going to lose it. that would have messed her up being her first deer and all. we told her we would look all night but maybe she hit it in the leg or clipped the brisket?  then my uncle glanced to the side and saw a tip of horn sticking up. the deer was hit in the lung and liver,it looked like a grenade went off inside that deer. she nicked a rib and it had no exit wound. it was a smidge hi so it didn't really bleed externally. that deer only went 130 yards, but crashed in some taller grass.  everyone walked right past it, we would have found it but it might have been morning. my uncle has traveled the world and shot more species then he can count.  he couldn't believe the lack of blood trail from her deer. either way it came out great.

what a great year.

[huntnphool]

 

[RailRob]

nice man! great pics too..

[agchawk]

REALLY AWESOME!!! I love to see the "first timers" score.

CONGRATS to the family

[littlebuf]

sure hope that big flash light wasnt to spot the deer before youe shot it  just kiddin nice deer, good for them

[Whitetail Chaser]

Nice deer, great story!  Thanks for sharing...

[bowhunterforever]

Awsome and congrats!

[CHSNGSTLHD]

Very nice Steve, its also nice to see you over on this site! (This is "GOFISH1" on the Notebook) We need to get out for those BIG black bears!

[GrainfedMuley]

 Hey fishpimp...in pic #2...nice beard...I think I have seen that before...

[Fishpimp]

Very nice Steve, its also nice to see you over on this site! (This is "GOFISH1" on the Notebook) We need to get out for those BIG black bears!

get a hold on me on that early this week if you are interrested.
we also need to go chase some steelies

Hey fishpimp...in pic #2...nice beard...I think I have seen that before...

    it is about 3 inches longer now but it is going away in a week or 2. i haven't seen my bare chin since i was 13. 

sure hope that big flash light wasnt to spot the deer before youe shot it  just kiddin nice deer, good for them

.   
   it was to skin them with, it was a long night. 
speaking of poaching, i once talked to a guy who bragged about mounting a huge buck he shined, i told him to either mount it with his  hoof over his eyes{like he is blocking the sun} or mount it with sun glasses on  .  he didn't find it funny.  if he can't shoot a deer legaly then i don't have any respect for him. no need to poach   

[robb92]

Great story and thanks for posting the pics!!! Congrats to your wife and son on both very nice first deer!!

[firecrotch]

great story and pictures, lots of memories for that hunt

[7mmfan]

Thats a sweet story and those are some sweet bucks... but not nearly as sweet AS THAT SWEET BEARD! Right on bud great job and great memories.