Race's First Deer!!
Well, the key to life is being in the right place at the right time and being flexible! My cousin Thad, his wife Wendy and their two kids Race 12 & Riley 11 live behind us about 1/4 of a mile. This is Race's first year hunting and he and Thad have gone up to Eli the past two weekends hunting. He says people have been teasing him because he hasn't even seen a deer. Well this weekend Wendy is up in International Falls and Thad took Riley to Hockey practice so Race was home alone sitting in his parents room watching TV. He said he looked out the window and there was a 5 point buck in the back yard. He tried calling his dad, but didn't get an answer so he grabbed his shotgun, stepped out the back door and fired. He figures he missed with the first shot and so he shot again. This time he got the deer about 100 yards from the house! He called our house right away at about 8:45am to see if David knew how to gut a deer. David said no, sorry he didn't know how but the Uncle Kenny would. So, we called Uncle Kenny and David and Kenny headed back to take care of the deer. Mom, Chance, Jordyn and I got ready and went up. We got the deer gutted and drug up into the back yard when Thad got home. Boy was that kid proud and rightly so, GOOD JOB RACE!!!!
Of course little Miss Jordyn had to get into the action. Uncle Kenny has been saying that he was going to take her out deer hunting with him, I guess this is as close as it gets this year.
I told her the key to life is being flexible. One minute dad is feeding her breakfast and the next minute we are in the woods gutting a deer!
posted by Colleen @ 8:24 AM
4 Comments:
Dumb question, but did he use a shot gun with a slug load in it? (I'm assuming he did) 100yrds...Good shot.
That is a great story!
I laughed about David gutting the deer...I can't even picture it! That man is a house builder!!
No to Colonel Havoc. I think he shot the deer closer to the house but by the time it dropped it was about 100 yards.
To Jenny, thank goodness my husband doesn't know how to gut a deer. You don't know how many times a year I thank God that my husband doesn't hunt. No offense to those that do, but I didn't want a hunter or fisherman!
that is a great story colleen! Thanks for the playdate yesterday we had a blast! Nice deer Race!
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