I figured I'd share the story of my first deer. I know I love reading hunting stories so please post yours too!
I grew up with my dad being an avid hunter, he took me a few times but I always wanted my first deer to be a buck so I passed on the does I saw when I was younger. Time passed and as I got older I never really had a place to hunt or a firearm to hunt with. But that changed when the 2011 season rolled around, I finally had access to miles of forest and a great rifle. I bought my big game gun license and eagerly awaited rifle season! Luck would have it that come rifle season, I was sick... Bad case of bronchitis. I was DETERMINED to get a deer this year! Opening Day I woke up at 4 am and got ready, rode the 4 wheeler to an area I had scouted out and walked back into the woods. It was very cold and felt horrible on my lungs, I got seated right at 6am and waited. Daylight came and no sign of a deer. The longer I sat, the worse I felt until at 730am I decided I was just too sick and needed to go home. I'd almost made it out of the woods to the edge of a field where to my surprise stood a deer. It was buck only so I was praying it had antlers. I looked and could just barely see that it did, in fact, have legal antlers! My heart about dropped when he turned and trotted away from me but he stopped just at the edge of the field before entering the woods and disappearing from sight. I pulled my gun to my shoulder and took aim, standing. I started to jerk the trigger and then stopped myself, knowing I'd miss if I did. I took a deep breath, steadied and squeezed the trigger. I was deafened by the sound emitted from my gun but saw the buck kick like a bronco and take off into the woods at full speed. This was the first deer I'd ever shot at and the first buck I'd ever seen hunting! I was so worried I had missed but knew I should wait before going to check it out. After a very long 10 minutes I walked across the field to see if I had got him. When I came to where he was standing there was blood, and ALOT of it. I followed the 'blood path' and found him laying just inside the woods. I approached with caution but he had expired, i started counting points! He was a 6 pointer and around here, that's a good buck! He had nice tall antlers which were really funny colored, very dark all over. I field dressed him and had hit part of his heart and lungs! I grabbed his antlers and started dragging, during all the excitement I had forgotten how sick I was lol! I had to take off my coveralls and just wear my orange I got so hot! But I finally got him out of the woods and back home. Now he's mounted on my wall and im addicted to hunting!
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