Sons first Flintlock kill - late season PA

[upperplains]

You can't buy that with money. Love it.

 

[Skychief]

Great post! Congratulations to your son and good on you dad!!

 

[zerosprk]

Excellent, congratulations to you both! Thanks for sharing your story.

 

[david w]

Congrats to your son! How old is he? My dad never took me hunting. He was not anti hunting, but did not like the taste of wild game. He bought me a shotgun for Christmas when I was 16 and allowed me to hunt.
I wish Arkansas had a flintlock season like PA. I'm in much disfavor on the in-line guns.

 

[Bowhunter73]

Congrats on a great hunt and his determination to stay and hunt even though he was really cold. Thumbs Up

 

[bushytail]

Congratulations! I love your story too. Make more memories while you can. You never know what will happen in the future.

 

[dhaverstick]

Proud of him for sticking with it! Congratulations, young man!

Darren

 

[smo]

Congrats too you both!

 

[Lippy984]

Great work kid…that’s the stuff he’ll never forget.

 

[rt2bowhunter]

Love seeing pics of kids and dead deer. Congrats to the young hunter!

 

[Euan]

Congratulations young Man. Well done to you both.

 

[Bibs]

Nice going

 

[Yewbender]

Congrats to both of you

 

[hanshi]

Now that is outstanding! Congratulations on a fine deer.

 

[Penske]

Congratulations on your first deer. Great to see a young hunter coming up in the ranks. Congratulation to Dad for teaching him well. Just remember the responsibility we have to the animal to make the best possible shot we can or even to not shoot if we feel we can't. Give thanks to the deer for giving it's life to provide nourishment to us and our family.

 

[Britsmoothy]

I am amazed you both stuck out there in that cold. Well done. The team

 

[Marshhawk]

Well done Joey , there is nothing like getting a one shot kill on your first deer . The way to find blood spots is use a stick (or your rifle ) and lay the end on the first blood spot then point it in the direction the deer went , use the stick as a marker to search along to find the next spot , move it side to side if needed , then repeat moving the stick at each spot , you can find the tiniest spots using this technique .

Nice technique. I learned the old toilet paper method. Put one square at each blood spot. Keep that up til you find the deer. The TP deteriorates pretty quickly outdoors, but I go back and pick it up.

 

[Britsmoothy]

Nice technique. I learned the old toilet paper method. Put one square at each blood spot. Keep that up til you find the deer. The TP deteriorates pretty quickly outdoors, but I go back and pick it up.

Get the fancy patterned ones for in snow, top tip

 

[Marshhawk]

Get the fancy patterned ones for in snow, top tip

Ha! That makes sense. I've never seen snow here during the deer season, so I use white ... it shows up well in LED light.

 

[Toneloc]

Good discussion on tracking methods. Have done the TP method before, works really when you only have one person. The stick method sounds like something I'll need to try next time we get on a tough one. When we jumped her after picking up the track immediately, I left my hat at the last blood. Then when we came back to pick up the track, I'd have Joey stand at last blood while I was searching out forward. Every time I found blood, he'd move up. One thing I've picked up over the years that really helps is looking for broken sticks/brush, kicked up tracks, etc. not just blood. On this track, there was some golden rod, and we could see where the loose duff from the golden rod had fallen fresh on the spotty snow. This helped us bridge between the blood specs.

Joey was super confident in his shot location when the gun went off, but I still had doubt creep in after jumping it. Probably one of my favorite feelings in hunting is that rush when you find the animal after letting that doubt creep in.