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How'd everyone's opening weekend of general firearms season go? Let's see some nice pics!

We had a pretty good opening weekend for a change. My buddy and his son had to work Saturday, so I stayed close to home and hunted my spot I have hunted for years. The landowners will only let me hunt this spot, so I found another spot for the 3 of us to hunt closer to their house. I didn't see a thing opening morning, but I heard a ton of shots. At noon, I decided to run up to our other spot. I climbed into my buddies tower stand at 1:00. I figured since I was there alone, I would hunt his spot. This is only our second year hunting here, and have not gotten a deer here yet. About 2:30, my buddy text me and told me he was getting done in about 15 minutes, and was wondering if it was worth it for him to come out. He has a ways to drive from work, and he had to stop at home first. Told him it was up to him, but if he did come out, to go sit my blind since I was in his. I should add, that this spot isn't very big, and about 3:30, I watched him walk out to my stand. He crawled in the blind at 4:00, and at 6:00, I heard him shoot! I text him and asked him if that was him, and he said, yes, he is down!! Here I had been sitting since 1:00, and hadn't seen a thing, and he comes out for 2 hours, and shoots his biggest buck to date. No monster, but a very nice one for him. I couldn't be happier!! He has done so much for me over the years, and I really wanted to get him a deer. It had been almost 8 years since he shot his last one. Here he is with his buck. He took it to the taxidermist, and is going to have it mounted.

That takes us to day 2. His son got the day off, so it was going to be the 3 of us. His son got his first deer 2 years ago using my muzzleloader. He was hooked. He went out and bought his own CVA Wolf last year. We got in our blinds about a half hour before shooting time. Wasn't long, and I see a buck walking straight down the fence line headed right to me. He came right to my blind, and walked right passed me. It was a few minutes before shooting light, so I let him go. I knew that the direction he was going, he was going to walk past Jacks stand. Jack is my buddies son. It wasn't more then a few minutes later, when BOOM!!!!! I sent him a text asking him if he got him. He replied I sure did!!! I was just as stoked as he was!!! What a great weekend. I stayed in my stand for another hour and a half, while him and his Dad gutted his deer. Then we headed to my house to butcher their deer for the rest of the day. We still have my tag, and 2 bonus tags left. Hope this weekend goes just as well as last.

Awesome job. Looks like a great opening weekend!! Doesn't have to be a huge monster buck to make someone happy like these stupid "professional" hunters need. I'm sure that deer is a trophy to him and if I had the chance to, I'd take that deer in a heartbeat if he came to my stand. Same goes for the kid! It's memories like that on opening weekend that truly matter!

Looks like a fun couple days of hunting.
-Jake