Rhett Griffith
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I took my eldest son, Alexander, on his first deer hunt last evening. He is eight years old and this is the first time he has been eligible to hunt deer in Oklahoma. He told me several weeks ago that he wanted to use my flintlock to shoot his first deer instead of using a centerfire rifle, so we have been spending a lot of time practicing with it.
We hunted out of a two-man ladder stand and started seeing deer as soon as we entered the woods. Several deer walked by between 150 and 50 yards away, but I told him to be patient and wait until they got closer. After about 45 minutes, two deer approached to within 25 yards. When one of them turned broadside at 12 yards, I whispered for him to shoot, and he put a .490 roundball right behind the shoulder. :thumbsup:
The deer trotted about 30 yards, stopped, and then fell over dead. We had been in the woods for less than an hour and Alexander had his first deer on the ground. To say that he was excited would be a gross understatement. I already dread getting the phone bill next month, after he got done calling everyone he could think of to tell them the news! :haha: We're all really proud of him!
(Something is wrong with the timestamp function on my digital camera, the actual date was 10/14/2011)
We hunted out of a two-man ladder stand and started seeing deer as soon as we entered the woods. Several deer walked by between 150 and 50 yards away, but I told him to be patient and wait until they got closer. After about 45 minutes, two deer approached to within 25 yards. When one of them turned broadside at 12 yards, I whispered for him to shoot, and he put a .490 roundball right behind the shoulder. :thumbsup:
The deer trotted about 30 yards, stopped, and then fell over dead. We had been in the woods for less than an hour and Alexander had his first deer on the ground. To say that he was excited would be a gross understatement. I already dread getting the phone bill next month, after he got done calling everyone he could think of to tell them the news! :haha: We're all really proud of him!
(Something is wrong with the timestamp function on my digital camera, the actual date was 10/14/2011)
