nhn2a
Ten Pointer
A friend of mine invited me and my 11yo to his family farm to hunt with him this afternoon. My son has killed a couple does but has never shot or even seen a buck while hunting so even though they normally only shoot big bucks they gave him the green light to harvest anything he wanted to. They normally see 20+ does and a couple small bucks at a minimum in the spot he put us. Unfortunately it was 67 degrees when we got there according to the truck so we were afraid the warmer weather may result in some later movement.
We didnt see any activity until the last several minutes of shooting light but had a 4pt appear in our blind spot directly behind us and sneak in to 75yrds before we spotted him. My son made too much noise trying to turn around and get the scope on him and he did a 180 and bounded off. Then I spotted an even bigger buck across the field at 330yrds but he was walking along the woodline so it was really hard to see him through the scope. I could make him out but my son wasn't able to. He tried everything he could to find the buck in the scope but we ended up running out of time and legal shooting was over.
3 minutes later another large 8pt walks out and walks right up to us and turns broadside at about 50yrds. My son asks if he can shoot it but I explain that its past legal shooting and so he gets a pass tonight. He even makes the comment that no one will know and its only 3 minutes. We got to have an important conversation about ethics and integrity while we waited on our ride to come pick us up. I've had this conversation with him many of times in the past but I think this is the first time it truly set in as its the first time he had to apply it practically.
Even on the drive home an hour later he was able to define integrity and ethics almost word for word how I explained it. I'm hoping it set in and that he learned an important lesson tonight even though he came home empty handed on the deer front.
We didnt see any activity until the last several minutes of shooting light but had a 4pt appear in our blind spot directly behind us and sneak in to 75yrds before we spotted him. My son made too much noise trying to turn around and get the scope on him and he did a 180 and bounded off. Then I spotted an even bigger buck across the field at 330yrds but he was walking along the woodline so it was really hard to see him through the scope. I could make him out but my son wasn't able to. He tried everything he could to find the buck in the scope but we ended up running out of time and legal shooting was over.
3 minutes later another large 8pt walks out and walks right up to us and turns broadside at about 50yrds. My son asks if he can shoot it but I explain that its past legal shooting and so he gets a pass tonight. He even makes the comment that no one will know and its only 3 minutes. We got to have an important conversation about ethics and integrity while we waited on our ride to come pick us up. I've had this conversation with him many of times in the past but I think this is the first time it truly set in as its the first time he had to apply it practically.
Even on the drive home an hour later he was able to define integrity and ethics almost word for word how I explained it. I'm hoping it set in and that he learned an important lesson tonight even though he came home empty handed on the deer front.
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