Guys,
What is the best hunt you've ever been on?

The best hunt I've ever been on is when my son shot his first deer ever. He did it with a bow. He used a Hoyt Intensity youth bow set at 40 lbs. I should tell you that he he is an excellent shot. 2 time state indoor champion cub division and 3rd in the nationals at the time he shot this deer. He was 12 and now he will be 20.

I set him up in one of my fence row stands about 18 feet up. It was between a picked corn field and an alfalfa field right where it tee'd into a brushy woodline that led down to a river bottom. I was sitting in a ground blind 400 yards down the fence row from him. It was Oct 17th. During the last half hour of light, a buck along with 2 does came up from the river bottom and began feeding in the alfalfa. The buck was nosing the does around. My son, Nate, grunted at the buck. He looked but went back to pestering the does. He grunted at him again and the buck got perturbed but again went back to the does. Nate grunted at him a third time and this time the buck couldn't stand it. He trotted over to the fence row to peek across into the picked corn looking for the other buck. Nate drew his bow and took a 27 yard broadside shot and hit the buck in the heart. The buck burst into the corn field and at 50 yards he dropped like a rock! My son let out a rebel yell....Yaaahh Hooooo!!

While sitting in my ground blind, natural (respect), I heard this yell from Nates direction. It was starting to get dark and I noticed something running in the field comming towards me. I'm thinking, come on ...drop, drop. When suddenly it does. Crap!!! It got back up and started running towards me again! I hunched down and got ready to put a finishing shot on it when suddenly I realized that it was Nate![:-]

He comes up to me and says, "I killed a big buck!". I asked how big? 8 points. How wide? He holds his hands about 18" apart. I go, "NoS hit!!?? I couldn't wait to go see it.

No kidding, it was 18 1/4" wide, 3 1/2 year old 8 point, grossed 122". It had a broken tip off the main beam and a broken g-2, otherwise it would have been close to making P&Y. Who cared! It was the greatest moment of my deer hunting career and still is. It was the best hunt of my life.

Here he is....