I got the opportunity this year to take my bro-in law on his first hunt on Thanksgiving day. He had shotthe rifle some and told me he was feeling pretty confident, cool deal I thought. So we go hole up in a draw and wait for some deer coming off of of a wheatfield to bed up for the day. Been sitting for no longer than thirty minuets and see some does way off about 800 yrds. I can see he is already shaking and tell him to breathe and dont over think it. Well we watch as they mill around for a while and all of a sudden I see a nice 8 chasing a doe down a fenceline about 150 yrds away from us. I tell him to get the gun up and that there is a buck coming in fast. He panics gets fumbly and finally gets the gun up on the shooting sticks. The buck chases the doe about 75 yrds right in front of us and she stops, he started rubbing a tree and was facing away from us, by now my bro in law is in bad shape he is shaking like a leaf and I know he hasnt taken a breath since I had said buck. Finally the buck turns and I stop him, I say "shoot him when you feel like it" and he fires off a round. I see a dust cloud right above the deers back and the buck runs right to us and stops about 25 yrds off. He looked like a monkey humping a football trying to get the gun pointed in the right direction, the buck spots us and runs off down the draw........no luck. The best part of this Is igot it all on video so over thanksgiving dinner the whole family gets to see it.

Now the pm hunt...... we set up about 75 yrds off of a wheat field, deer are filing in quick. He is getting shaky again I can tell, expecially when a pretty nice 6 comes out. He wants to shoot him now but I ranged him and he was about 200 out, I tell him lets wait and he might come closer. Ends up the buck doggs a doe out right in front of us, with bow range not 40 yrds out. Again the monkey humping football scenario trying to get the gun up, no luck the doe peggs us and trots the other way, he cusses under his breath for a few minuets. They are back to about 200 out so we wait. The buck doggs the doe off of the field and back into the brush. Make a long story short at last light I range a doe exactly 186 yrds off I know the rifle is sighted in for 100 yrds so I tell him just hold on her upper 2/3 shoulder. He takes his time and fires one off. I watched her tuck tail and go back to the brush. Knowing it was a good hit I tell him that I am not sure and we had better wait for a little bit. He wont wait he runs to the spot where he shot and no deer he was bummed. I had seen where she ran in the brush and I kinda moseyed over there while he was looking for some sign. I called him over when I spotted white belly and he freaks out, he is rolling around on the ground hooping and hollering I was craking up. He gets his hands on her and cant even talk. Now keep in mind this guy has never been hunting, he was raised up in the city and besides a few fishing trips we went on this summer has had very little outdoors experience. It was a blast to see his expressio when he was standing behind his trophy, I was as happy for him as I have ever been for myself. In all of the comotion nethier of us realized that he was a little close to the scope, you can see in the pic right between his eyes. A great day for the both of us, he is itching to come up and video a bowhunt for me over christmas break.

The best part is he makes a perfect shot at 186 yrds puts the doe down in40 yrdsand misses the buck at 75, I wont ever let him live that down.