First Blood

My nephew Isaac went with me last year on the youth hunt and as you can tell he had some good luck. We were there about 30 minutes before daylight and got ready for what turned out to be one heck of a morning.

It was about 6:30 when we saw our first deer. We were hunting in a stand of 15 or 20 year old pines that had been thinned earlier that year. There is a road that goes in front of the shooting house from left to right. Then there is a lane cut in front that runs in a straight line for about 150 yards before it makes a turn, and one that runs behind it for about 130 or 140 yards before it goes up a hill.

This shooting house sits in a pine thicket that was heavily traveled before they thinned the pines. Now it has four shooting lanes, ranging from 60 to 150 yards.

So back to the hunt, about 6:30 we had two does walk out on the lane in front of us at 114 yards. Isaac never had shot at a deer before so I told him if he had a shot on the biggest one to steady up on the shoulder and squeeze the trigger. She hit the ground.

We gave her about 30 minutes before we walked down to see her. In the 30 minutes we saw another 6 to 7 deer, all does except for one small 4 pointer. When we walked up on his doe, we jumped two deer and they run toward another youth hunter that was hunting near us, so we decided to get back in the shooting house.

After about 10 minutes in the stand, the other hunter shot. Then we sit for another 20 minutes and Isaac looked up the road and started saying there was a buck. I turned to look up the road and there was a buck at 107 yards. I looked at the buck with my binoculars and told Isaac if he wanted to shoot him that he needed to steady up on his shoulder and squeeze the trigger.

Down he went. He couldn’t wait 30 minutes before he went to look at this one. We got to him and he was 15” inside spread 6 pointer. This was one heck of first buck.

When we got home to his dad, everybody was as excited as me and Isaac so we took pictures and smeared a little blood on him for tradition and a little future luck.

Isaac’s First Blood Video

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