This was the best hunt I've had in the woods in 24 years - even better than my first deer. I had the opportunity to take my son with me and scored. I have a stand positioned down wind of my stand approx 15 yards for my son to sit. I have been so busy this year that I haven't hunted as much therefore his time in the woods was diminished as well. But we were able to get out a couple days in late season.

The story goes like this: After kicking deer out on the way to the stand at 3p, we finally got settled. About 4:30 I saw deer coming in from the ditch line about 200 yards out. I motioned to my son who picked them up right away. We both watched the deer make their way over and eventually three wound up in range. I decided to take the nearest doe as the shot was there. She wound up busting me by looking up before I was at full draw, but only moved off a few yards (behind a bush of course). So being at full draw I decided to take the far doe which was equally as nice. My son got to see the entire thing - from deer moving in to draw to shot to deer dropping in sight. He was so excited he was nearly screaming. He also said he was shaking in his stand when the deer were under us. It was so cool. We had the deer gutted and in the truck before dark. What a hunt.

Take your kids hunting. No kids? Take someone else's kids hunting.