“Probably,” I replied. I put my camouflage on and harness on and walked out to my stand. Crunch, crunch as Dad and I hurried out to my stand. I get in the tree and put the strap around the tree and tinted it so I don’t fall out of the stand.
“If it has antlers shoot it and good luck,” said Dad.
“I will and thanks,” I replied. A red squirrel ran around for about 30 minutes and then it when quiet. 30 minutes later 3 does trotted, a mom and her …show more content…
We gut the deer and we figured out it was a double lung shot, but it didn't exit the deer so that is why there was so little blood. I dragged the deer to the road as my dad went and got the mule, a Utility Terrain Vehicle (UTV) it is like a four wheeler but with a cargo bed. We loaded the deer in the bed of the mule and I drove it back to the cabin after we went and got my bow from my stand. We washed him up with the hose behind the cabin, and then hung him up on the meat pole to let the blood drain. I told them how he came in and Dad said “I didn’t see a deer till you shot.” “Yeah, he looked bigger that he was,” I replied. He was 2 ¾ inches so he was barely under legal because legal is 3 inches, but from 60 yards from when I first saw him I thought he was over 3 inches. I had to use my antlerless tag for him because he was under 3 inches and it was a week before gun hunting.
It was a good bow season as I shot my first deer out of a stand that my uncle Tom usually shoots a deer out of it every year and to get my first deer out of it is very exciting and it was at my cabin was even better. I learned it is not about shooting a big buck right away, but you need to know what it is like to shoot a deer before you shoot a