We had about 35 standers on the morning hunt Friday.... and we killed 43 deer... just in the morning! Had one little 9 year old boy shoot 4 does sitting with his granddaddy... he was running around smiling talkin about how he had to shoot like 12 shells! He was all pumped and fired up! Thats the one thing I love about hunting with hounds is the kids... almost every single member down there Friday had at least one youngin' with them, and of those 43 killed, probably 25-30 were shot by hunters under the age of 15. They shot a friggin' brute on Thursday and they shot a decent sized 10 pointer on Friday. The guy who shot it gave Rebecca the horns... which was pretty nice of him... he said he's killed 40 that size in his life and all he'd do is let the dogs chew on 'em anyway. Might make her some rattling horns.

The season was 12 days old... and the deer Rebecca shot was #174 for the year... and they broke 200 by the end of the day... they've been killin' a few!

I'm still pumped for Eric getting another chance at that deer. Thats a pretty rare thing in Virginia, especially post rut and post hounds. Thats a great buck.