When my Daughter shot her first Deer last October during the Youth Hunt we high-fived and gave each other a big hug....then I bragged on her to everyone I knew!

I asked her if she wanted to stay and see how to field dress the deer and she said she would rather not so I had her walked back to the house to get Mom to come back with the tractor and a camera!

When I shot my first doe a couple of years ago, the guide took blood from the deer as she was dressingit and smeared it all over my face. She said that this was the camp's tradition.

Goodness, alot of you guys watch way too much tv.

SHE!!!???!!!

I realize that since SHE is the guide its what SHE gets paid for, but I dont think im going to let any SHE dress MY animal. SHEcan dress HER own.

I got alot of Pats on the Back - and my uncles made me feel like my Button Buck was a real trophy. That was 20 years ago - we didn't paint faces with blood or any of that BS.

FH

After everyone!

That's a great picture! It's what I try and do everytime I harvest an animal.... As far as ritual's go, I was 23 when I harvested my first deer and after being in the US Army for 4 years, I wasn't about to let anyone try and put me through some kind of "rite of passage" ritual. I did get high-fives and drank a few beers though. By the way, deer heart is quite tasty pan-fried and scrambled with eggs

Idon't eat the heart, I save it for my tiger oscar at home. It saves buying beaf heart at the pet store and one heart lasts a long time.

My families ritual is when you kill your first deer you get to smoke a cigar, kind of a rights of passage

Have you ever heard of getting your shirt tail cut when you missed a deer? the guys in Georgia would rag me about doing that when I missed.(which was alot) Although I never got it, I saw them do it to each other.