PHOTO CONTEST - March Photo of the Month "Youth Big Game Hunting"

[coastie hunter]

This is a picture of my 9 year old Son with his first Washington blacktail deer. He harvested this doe last archery season 2011. What a proud moment and a season of memories we will treasure for a lifetime.

[bearpaw]

that's awesome, good job dad.... 

[carpsniperg2]

I am posting this for engelwood who is my cousin. This is his little brothers lope from this last year.

[RadSav]

Clara's first buck!  Missouri not Washington, but one heck of a first buck - gun or bow.  Her first deer ever (a doe) was taken the day before on Thanksgiving.  Also with her bow.  I am posting this for her and her father.  They are close personal friends.

[HORSEPOWER]

This is my youngest's first buck, a little 3 pt. muley.  Not your typical pic, but I love it!  He was soooo excited!

[3nails]

 That's great Horsepower! 50+ deer and I still feel the same way with nice clean meat hanging.

[bearpaw]

some really great photos this month....

[grandpawrichard]

Okay Everybody, I'm going to close the Photo of the Month Contest Tonight at 10 PM (3/27/12). So if you don't have your photos entered Please Do So Immediately!

Dick

[bearpaw]

Bumping this up for any last minute entries

[grandpawrichard]

This contest is now CLOSED! I gave it an extra few minutes just in case there was any last minute entries.

Dick

[NWBREW]

Love that photo RadSav.    Not only is it just a great picture of a happy young hunter.....she has Safety Gear on as well. 

Funny thing is I didn't notice it at first. It wasn't until I thought....Missouri...I wonder if she was in a tree stand.

[RadSav]

Wasn't hunting most enjoyable when does and unicorns were trophies,  when Grandpa would tell us big ol' lies and we believed every word,  when the terms SCI, Boone & Crockett and Pope & Young meant absolutely nothing to us,  when we fell asleep on a deer stand because the excitement of opening day kept us from getting a wink of sleep for two days prior,  when we would stop in at the truck stop for French Toast and Butterhorns on opening day and it felt like a family reunion,  and when a simple grouse along side a dirt road would give us buck fever so bad we could not get a .410 shell into the single shot chamber?

It is pictures like these that really make me know the life path I chose was the right one.  That hunting is an honerable way to bring families together and learn important life lessons.  And, that I miss my Grandfather very much.  Great pictures everyone.  I enjoyed them all.

[Arteman]

Good post Radsav, so true.