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This is my daughter Gabe and this past weekend, she shot this 134# doe at 80 yards and center punched the heart. The doe blew through our stand and we actually stalked out in the field to get the shot. The doe sensed us and took off on a dead run. Having watched Randy Anderson stop Coyotes on Primos with a bark, I barked at the doe and she stopped dead and looked back at us. Resting on our stoney point shooting sticks (sorry for the plugs but if any commercial entity is reading, we would love a corporate sponsor!) Gabe touched it off and there was no doubt in my mind that she hammered her. To top this all off, I bought this disc elite from Shawn T here on the site and have spent hours at the range with Gabe teaching her the art of muzzleloading and building her self confidence while shooting. There is no taking her back to shotgun hunting, she is absolutely hooked on the "one shot challenge"!
On day two of the hunt, I took this young man out for another round. Unfortunately, his father passed away at a very young age 6 months ago and his mom was reluctant to let him go alone. I took him to the same farm that Gabe scored on and he took this doe. I realize that it is a small one but southern Michigan is crawling with them and the farmer specifically asked us to harvest does if we were able. He sized it up for quite some time before deciding to harvest her and she was travelling totally alone. I was really impressed that he glassed her for minutes making sure he didn't mistakenly shoot a button buck.
Both kids helped me butcher and donated a large portion of the meat back to the farmer that let us hunt his land. Sadly, he said that this was the first time he was rewarded that way by anyone that he had let hunt his farm. I think the kids solidified their place on that farm for the future.
For the sake of brevity let me suggest that any of you who hasn't tried this do so. This experience proved to be as rewarding for me personally as any deer I've ever shot. I am sure that I have secured two young hunters that will add to our shrinking numbers. Thanks to Shawn T for assisting me in making this happen!!!
Hopefully more success to follow!
Darrell
This is my daughter Gabe and this past weekend, she shot this 134# doe at 80 yards and center punched the heart. The doe blew through our stand and we actually stalked out in the field to get the shot. The doe sensed us and took off on a dead run. Having watched Randy Anderson stop Coyotes on Primos with a bark, I barked at the doe and she stopped dead and looked back at us. Resting on our stoney point shooting sticks (sorry for the plugs but if any commercial entity is reading, we would love a corporate sponsor!) Gabe touched it off and there was no doubt in my mind that she hammered her. To top this all off, I bought this disc elite from Shawn T here on the site and have spent hours at the range with Gabe teaching her the art of muzzleloading and building her self confidence while shooting. There is no taking her back to shotgun hunting, she is absolutely hooked on the "one shot challenge"!
On day two of the hunt, I took this young man out for another round. Unfortunately, his father passed away at a very young age 6 months ago and his mom was reluctant to let him go alone. I took him to the same farm that Gabe scored on and he took this doe. I realize that it is a small one but southern Michigan is crawling with them and the farmer specifically asked us to harvest does if we were able. He sized it up for quite some time before deciding to harvest her and she was travelling totally alone. I was really impressed that he glassed her for minutes making sure he didn't mistakenly shoot a button buck.
Both kids helped me butcher and donated a large portion of the meat back to the farmer that let us hunt his land. Sadly, he said that this was the first time he was rewarded that way by anyone that he had let hunt his farm. I think the kids solidified their place on that farm for the future.
For the sake of brevity let me suggest that any of you who hasn't tried this do so. This experience proved to be as rewarding for me personally as any deer I've ever shot. I am sure that I have secured two young hunters that will add to our shrinking numbers. Thanks to Shawn T for assisting me in making this happen!!!
Hopefully more success to follow!
Darrell
