Im am sick SICK SICK !
I took a friend of my sons deer hunting yesterday to Tennessee ...he is in his mid 30s and has hunted some but has only taken one doe in his life and that was last year ... while we were riding to the property I hunt I was telling him with the wind we had it would be best for him to hunt a stand that my son normally hunts ... I was hoping he would at least see a mature doe ... I told him there were two yearlings in the area ..one doe and one button buck and DO NOT shoot either if he saw them ...I told him they were small and normally were together ... I put him in his stand and went to mine ...the wind was very cold out of the north ...at about 4.45 I heard a shot so I was excited that he may have shot a buck or even a doe ...when I got to him I asked what he had shot and he said a doe ...we walk to where he said the deer fell and as we approched the deer got up and ran down into a bottom ...it was getting dark so I started to blood trail the deer ...after about 45 min. he was wanting to leave but I made him stay with it ..about 10min later I saw eyes looking back at my light ...it was down but still alive ...I got a sick feeling this was o ne of the yearlings ...I held the light on the deer at about 40 yards and he shot again puting the deer down for good ..as we approched the deer my worst fears proved to be true it was one of the yearlings and it was the little buck ... I WAS SICK not to mention AGRAVATED ..this deer could not have weighed 40 lbs ...he had blown out the left rear quarter ..and then had to shoot it again ... I made him drag the deer up hill by himself ...and we did not talk all the way home ... he got his things out of my truck ..got his deer and I left ... after thinking about it over night I feel that I was just as resposible as he was for the deer ... I shoulld never had put him in that stand ... I should have taken his experence in mind and put him somewhere else ...I thought about this all night and I am still sick about it ....[:@]
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