What a hunt and a great day it was. 6 years to the day same shooting house same crossbow that my son killed his first deer tyler was 9 years old Mike is 46 years old
This all started when my wife killed a 7 pointer last year, my co-worker Mike wanted it processed for him self. Well he fell in love with deer meat, cooking up all sorts of dishes sharing with friends and family. His mother has never ate deer in her life and she said it was dang good. His neighbors wife said she would never eat a deer, she tried some and liked it .
Well he got this wild hair and wanted to actually kill his own deer this year. I told him Id take him. He wanted to get a rifle so he did and has been shooting it this summer but I told him if you want to kill a deer NOV is your month and your best bet in tn is ML season. I told him he could shoot mine and we would go. Well anticipation was getting to him every day he just really wanted to go hunting.
I told him heck you could go during archery and take one with a cross bow, well he bought his archery license in like 5 minutes and was ready, this was like in july.
i took him monday after season was open as most hunts we did not see a thing. But for some reason we planned last week that we would go today. Weather was not good it was 85 today but what the heck you cant kill them if you are not in the woods.
about 6:20 mamma and a lil one came up the powerline, it was on. I told him to take the first deer (mamma) well she was not going to walk in front of the shooting house so i told him he was going to have to shoot out the side window.
15 yard shot she went 42 ish fell in sight. It was not that simple though the shot was perfect in but she was 1/4 to him so the exit was back she acted like she wasnt hit walked 30 yds stood there then the death wobble and dropped.
He got the taste of what every hunter that has killed a deer knows. How you can go from a high to the lowest of lows to the highest of highs in less than a minute. We were pumped when it was shot but i was un-nerverd the way she walked off but when she crashed oh man we were on cloud 9
he is freaking ruined no other words but ruined.
He is on a lease i am on 500 acres in houston county, i cant wait till he sees a buck
I will say this I have had the pleasure of putting my son, step daughter, wife and 2 of my sons friends on their first deer but putting a 46 year old co-worker and friend on one was just as exciting as all of those hunts
you would of thought a monster buck had been killed.
Cheatham county doe
dressed 85 lbs
15 yd shot
excalibur equinox crossbow
excalibur x-act mechanical broadhead