Post by JLeMieux on Oct 21, 2017 8:09:08 GMT -6
I typed this story up twice last night and managed to delete it each time while trying to load a picture. Here's a slightly abbreviated version.
My dad has only hunted deer about 4 or 5 times in his life. He's never even seen a deer while hunting. With him going into semi-retirement and my mom passing last year, he has a lot more time on his hands these days. I finally convinced him to start hunting with me this year and I paid for him a membership in my lease in Natchitoches.
I got him a spot fixed up and put my box stand on it for him. He's a veteran, so we decided to take advantage of the last day of youth/veterans week. At the last minute, I scratched my plan to sit another stand and film him instead. It was slow until a young 8 pt stepped out to the edge of the lane at about 60 yds. It starting walking across as we were getting the gun and camera on him. I mama's for him to stop 3 times, then whistled and yelled. Just before he got to the other side he started stopping and my dad shot. The buck jumped into the air and dust flew everywhere. He ran like he was hit, but I couldn't tell much about the shot. Eventually we got down and found a great bloodtdrail. I decided to go ahead and start tracking and 50 yds later we jumped him. It had been 50-55 minutes since the shot and I was surprised he was still alive based on the amount of blood. We backed out and came back 2 hrs later with a little help from my buddy.
Long story short we jumped him again and had to put another bullet in him. The first shot was through the front shoulder but no idea why that deer didn't die immediately. Regardless, my dad shot his first deer and though I didn't do a very good job, I got it on video.
My dad has only hunted deer about 4 or 5 times in his life. He's never even seen a deer while hunting. With him going into semi-retirement and my mom passing last year, he has a lot more time on his hands these days. I finally convinced him to start hunting with me this year and I paid for him a membership in my lease in Natchitoches.
I got him a spot fixed up and put my box stand on it for him. He's a veteran, so we decided to take advantage of the last day of youth/veterans week. At the last minute, I scratched my plan to sit another stand and film him instead. It was slow until a young 8 pt stepped out to the edge of the lane at about 60 yds. It starting walking across as we were getting the gun and camera on him. I mama's for him to stop 3 times, then whistled and yelled. Just before he got to the other side he started stopping and my dad shot. The buck jumped into the air and dust flew everywhere. He ran like he was hit, but I couldn't tell much about the shot. Eventually we got down and found a great bloodtdrail. I decided to go ahead and start tracking and 50 yds later we jumped him. It had been 50-55 minutes since the shot and I was surprised he was still alive based on the amount of blood. We backed out and came back 2 hrs later with a little help from my buddy.
Long story short we jumped him again and had to put another bullet in him. The first shot was through the front shoulder but no idea why that deer didn't die immediately. Regardless, my dad shot his first deer and though I didn't do a very good job, I got it on video.
