Daughters first buck
#1

She had a heck of a time with buck fever. She has been killing doe now problem for a few years but boy did we find out she has major buck fever. She missed a 160 inch buck first morning and this buck was the 3rd one in range Saturday evening. I kept telling her you gotta get it done because your not going to just keep getting chances and the deer proved me way wrong. Fourth chance at a buck in 2 days and she finally got it done. Not much comes easy to her but she is very successful anyway because giving up is something she just does not understand. She absolutely has no idea how to quit at anything.


#7

I think she's got a good teacher Rock. I expect many more big ones in the future for her.
Question: did you intentionally start her out on doe? Or just hadn't previously had a chance at a buck?
-Jake
Question: did you intentionally start her out on doe? Or just hadn't previously had a chance at a buck?
-Jake
#8

They don't make a good shotgun that fits her so its chaos if they don't present a shot where we want them to. The bigger bucks were in her range they just were not willing to allow her the time to get on them. Kind of a situation where the more mature the deer is the less room for error.
Turns out this buck met our skill level leaving her a lot of room for error. I'd say we need to get at least one more buck in this class under her belt unless of course we get lucky.
Its kind of a double edge sword, I'm glad she has the passion to produce buck fever but its definitely a struggle and the more she messed up the worse the nerves got.
#9
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: NE Kansas
Posts: 1,067

Congrats to you Rockport!
My grand nephew got a first deer a couple of weeks ago. He'll be at his grandpa's in a couple of days where I can call him and let him tell me all the details. If I'm proud of him, I can only imagine your pride as father.
My grand nephew got a first deer a couple of weeks ago. He'll be at his grandpa's in a couple of days where I can call him and let him tell me all the details. If I'm proud of him, I can only imagine your pride as father.