Smiles don't get much bigger than that!!:happy0001: Congrats to your grandson.

That's awesome! Congratulations to you guys!

Opener in PA went well. Other than a farm my family has hunted for over about 120 years is now leased out to a group from Pittsburgh. :nonono2:

So we lost our best place there. But again... I don't blame the owner (a now older retired man who bought it) for making money. Just sucks losing a property we've hunted for so long. My grandpa shot his first deer there back in the 40s. His dad may have shot his first deer there...etc.

But we had a good opening weekend. Hunted hard Saturday. Hunted Sunday morning then went to church and went back out for the afternoon to do some drives.

Dad got a nice 7 point.


two youth hunters got doe
Another youth got his first buck that wasn't a spike


and Jayden got another doe. That's three deer in a week for him and his .350 legend.

Another 5 point was taken by an uncle. I don't have pictures of that one.

I'm hunting Ohio for the week now. Hoping to put a tag of my own on something with horns.

​​​​​​​-Jake

Way to go!

I just wasn't feeling it today. Hunted pretty hard Saturday-Monday. Had some other stuff going on today that I couldn't get out in the morning.

Decided I'd get my nine year old out for the afternoon(on an apprentice license). I was going to wait until next year for deer, but just felt like taking him.

Glad I did. We were in the woods less than twenty minutes when I saw this little doe working her way towards us. Got the boy stood up and on a good rest and then walked him through it. "Wait, wait... Let it come a little further... Wait for it to stop... Can you see it's chest?... Ok when you're ready put the cross hair on the chest and press the trig...BOOOM"

Man was I excited. Perfect double lung. It ran about 50-60 yards and dropped. He watched it drop. We called his mom up and she brought the other kids out for the "tracking" I had him follow the blood trail to it.





-Jake

Congrats to your son and to you for taking him hunting.

live weight 230 lbs

Some fine animals here. Congratulations to all involved!

Got the two boys deer done and hung up. They're both happy.


I wasn't sure what to do with the doe. I wanted to do something since it was his first deer. I think it came out good for a doe.

-Jake

That’s cool. Great idea Jake.

Here’s my 2021 buck.