Author Topic: Doe tag filled by 10 yr daughter (Read 4357 times)

PA BEN · « **on:** October 18, 2009, 06:42:38 AM »

This is my daughter's second deer. She didn't get one last year. Her first was a doe when she was 8. We put in for the partner draw for doe tag in unit 603, my wife daughter and myself drew. I usually go home to Chewelah to hunt and haven't hunted blacktails over here since we moved over 4 1/2 yrs ago. So she's the first to get a westside blacktail in our family. My wife took the last picture w/her playing with her yo yo while I was doing the work, 10 years old's. It was a 80 yd head shot no wasted meat. Win. Youth Mod. 70, 7mm-08

ponyboy156 · « **Reply #1 on:** October 18, 2009, 07:29:21 AM »

Congrats to her..... and you!

MagKarl · « **Reply #2 on:** October 18, 2009, 07:32:20 AM »

Very nice PA Ben! As the father of 3 young girls, I really appreciate your posts. I'm looking forward to the days when mine are old enough to hunt.

Buschingc · « **Reply #3 on:** October 18, 2009, 07:45:31 AM »

Congrats..... Way to go..

runamuk · « **Reply #4 on:** October 18, 2009, 08:19:43 AM »

That is awesome ....

robb92 · « **Reply #5 on:** October 18, 2009, 08:31:15 AM »

Congrats!!!!!!

KillerMiller · « **Reply #6 on:** October 18, 2009, 08:34:21 AM »

Cool!! I can't wait to get my daughter out for her first hunt. Keep up the good work.

WAPITIHUNTER · « **Reply #7 on:** October 18, 2009, 08:57:38 AM »

Man it's a good thing someone is puttin meat in your freezer. That is awesome.

Congratulations and good job to her on not wasting any meat!

runningboard · « **Reply #8 on:** October 18, 2009, 09:22:46 AM »

congrats to her for a job well done, not gonna let my kids see the yo-yo picture though!

markts · « **Reply #9 on:** October 18, 2009, 09:25:55 AM »

Congrats to you and the family. I cant get any of my daughters interested in more than a drive in the woods

Mark

jae · « **Reply #10 on:** October 18, 2009, 10:42:54 AM »

That is Awsome! Nothing better than creating a lifelong memory for a child.

jae · « **Reply #11 on:** October 18, 2009, 10:50:07 AM »

Quote from: markts on October 18, 2009, 09:25:55 AM

Congrats to you and the family. I cant get any of my daughters interested in more than a drive in the woods Mark

I feel your pain!
My Daughter hunted for two years, at the age of 12 (for four days) and at the age of 13 (for one day) now at 15 I am lucky to get her away from her friends or activities for a drive in the woods also. She had a doe tag when she was 12 and turned down a doe the first day, stating she wanted to kill a buck. I sure wish she would have shot, maybe she would have got the hunting bug.

Aneoakleaf · « **Reply #12 on:** October 18, 2009, 10:50:53 AM »

Way to go!!
That's a big doe!!

Lots of good eating there!!

shoot-em-dead · « **Reply #13 on:** October 18, 2009, 11:00:55 AM »

nice job- congrates. This is my daughters first year hunting and she is doing muzzle. There is a late season so she still has a chance and I hope your daughters story inspires her.

NWBREW · « **Reply #14 on:** October 18, 2009, 12:00:52 PM »

Awsome....Congrats to the mighty hunter. Thats great to see.

cascademountainhunter · « **Reply #15 on:** October 18, 2009, 12:04:52 PM »

congrats to her!!!

ratherhunt · « **Reply #16 on:** October 18, 2009, 12:53:13 PM »

Congratulations to her and you , nice deer. I was hoping to take my daughter out this year but she seems to of lost interest at least on deer with a rifle really disappointing but I have not given up yet. I have 3 daughters and the oldest 2 have no interest at all in hunting,I think its a recoil issue with this one all she wants to do is grouse hunt with her .22.

Gutpile · « **Reply #17 on:** October 18, 2009, 02:13:55 PM »

Awesome!!! Looks like your daughter is as interested as mine during the real work though. That pic is priceless.

PA BEN · « **Reply #18 on:** October 20, 2009, 06:56:56 AM »

Quote from: ratherhunt on October 18, 2009, 12:53:13 PM

Congratulations to her and you , nice deer. I was hoping to take my daughter out this year but she seems to of lost interest at least on deer with a rifle really disappointing but I have not given up yet. I have 3 daughters and the oldest 2 have no interest at all in hunting,I think its a recoil issue with this one all she wants to do is grouse hunt with her .22.

The trick I learned a long time ago with my girls is a long walk w/no deer makes them not want to go out. When I lived on the Eastside I would do my scouting and sit the kids down in fields or in the woods where the deer move through. Make a good rest for the gun for a clean shot. And when your girl wants to go home it's time to listen, girls like it fun. It's legal to bait deer. So I would set up my ground blind and put out apples and grain, (Cob). We would sit a spit sunflower seeds. I use shoot sticks so the kids are very steady. Have them go out with you when you put out bait. As far as recoil goes, I use youth mod. guns with a good recoil pad. 243 and 7mm-08. I have them shoot from a good rest. I also drop an empty round in when there not looking to see if there flinching. When they say I kicks, I tell them you will never feel the gun go off when you shot a deer. Everyone of my girls on there first deer said I never felt the recoil. It's the first words out of there mouth. When my oldest daughter was 13 I didn't have a gun for her to hunt that night, I had my other two guns w/two of my other daughters. So I asked a buddy if he would sit w/her and use his 7mm Rem. Mag. he was tagged out. she said does it kick I said O yes, but you will never feel it when you shot a deer, she said ok. She killed a 3 point at over 300 yds that evening. BTW, I used a ground blind with apples for these blacktails. They will pattern like a whitetail if you feed them. When your daughter gets older and can handle the wt. of the gun better, they will go on walks w/you. It's hard to get a good rest for a small kid. The goal is to get them on deer and get them into hunting.

bearpaw · « **Reply #19 on:** October 20, 2009, 07:26:05 AM »

that's a happy girl....it's great you made the time to get them all hunting...

Machias · « **Reply #20 on:** October 20, 2009, 08:12:54 AM »

Way to go! Congrats!!

Fishhog · « **Reply #21 on:** October 20, 2009, 08:14:47 AM »

AWSOME !!!! Tell her congrats !!!!!!

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