I invited a friend of mine and his son to come over to my place to hunt the last weekend of the VA deer season. He's been hunting w/his son all season and hasn't even had a decent shot yet. So, I put him and his son in a tree that I knew they would at least get to see a couple of does. I was in another tree about 800yds away and just about a half hour before dark I heard several shots. I climbed down from my stand at dark and walked over to where they were hunting and both of them were standing over a couple of doe's. The father was so excited that he could hardly speak, both of them shot a doe each. This was only his second deer ever and it was his 12yr old son's first deer. The pride eminating from this father for his son made me realize how fortunate this kid was to have a parent that cared that much for him. I thought he was gonna start tearin up.

After we hauled the deer back to my barn and finished field dressing both does, I found the slug from his son's deer. I told him he has just had the perfect hunt. He witnessed his son's first deer kill, they both got a deer at the same time and he even got the bullet from his kids deer.

I told him that the only thing that could have made that weekend any better was two tickets to the last Redskins game of the season, which they had.

It's nice to see that there are parents out there that will devote so much time and energy with thier kids, and realize it's not about harvesting something everytime you go hunting but the quality time you spend with your kids.