First deer

[drumking]

procraft - 11/7/2010 2:45 AM

looks like you can shoot deer as good as docks  congrats on your first deer how long have you been hunting

Kenneth, I sat in a deer stand with my step-dad before he died a couple of times a few years ago, but never got a shot at any deer. Then Dr Phil took me either once or twice last year and I passed up a shot on a button buck, but this year with it being either sex muzzle hunt, Phil said that if it was brown, put it on the ground. It just happen to be a nice sized eating doe. I'm happy with it.

You can't see the bridge abutments because I camouflaged the background to look like trees. emoBigsmile emoGeezer

 

[SpurHunter]

emoLaugh emoLaugh Your too funny Dickey!

 

[Hal]

WTG,very good job, emoThumbsup Like someone said, that is the best table meat emoThumbsup You can't eat horns and you have to be very careful when you clean the bucks, emoRolleyes I bet Dr. Phil knows some great recipes for venison emoSmile

 

[Gator]

CONGRATULATIONS Dickey on your 1st deer.
Great pictures also.
Now that the time's changed my fishing watch is off an hour so the fish won't know when to bite emoGeezer til I get it set.

 

[chatdc]

And now the rest of the story... Dickey has actually been on a few dove shoots with me and he did very well, considering I put him in the right spot with my gun and shells (sounds just like how he takes me fishing doesn't it?)But all kidding aside, he's really quite a shot with a shotgun. Many birds per box even on his first time out in several yrs...

Then we tried to get him his first turkey, twice. He shoots left handed and 4 jakes came up to our blind from our left side--no shot. Second time we were set up and I saw them coming in and told him to shoot the 3rd one while I held up three fingers... thinking that I was just telling him that there were 3 turkey coming in, he says yeah there's three of them and doesn't shoot because he couldn't see the small beard for sure. Next year he will get his first turkey!

Then there was the deer hunting... First of all, Dickey sits about as still as a palm tree in a hurricane video... We've only been out a couple times but I've been racking my brain to think of a way to hide him long enough to let a deer come in on him. At 68 yrs young, I always figured he needed to stay on the ground but we always got busted. (He did let a button buck walk one time while we were in a permenant tree stand at my club.) So this year I asked him if he thot he could climb with a tree stand and he never even thot twice, he said "sure".

So I blindfolded him, spun him around twice and lead him into my double secret tree stand on my favorite property in Birchwood and he went right up the tree and locked himself in. I'm standing there asking myself, "Why didn't you do this a long time ago?" Anyhow, I took my bow and walked 100yrds away and got behind a tree just in case his rifle skills weren't as accurate as his shotgun skills... About an hour later I jumped 5' in the air when I heard my muzzleloader go off. (I wasn't really sleeping, it just looked like it.) Coming back thru the woods toward him I see him standing up in the stand with both thumbs up in the air and a smile so big I thot about putting on my sunglasses!

Then he was nice enough to let me field dress it and drag it to his truck him, what a guy! Well actually, Yes he is. I just hope I'm able to learn new things as quickly as he does and remain as versatile as he is when I'm 68.

Dickey, Thanks for another bunch of good memories!

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