Home Forums Hunting & Shooting General Big Game Three boys and three first deer.

Thanks for sharing and congrats on providing these young men with life long memories.

Levi used a Marlin XS-7 in .243 (youth model) with some 85 grain HPBT Gamekings I loaded up. Couldn't be more impressed with the rifle. Picked it up for less than $300 new, and it shoots everything I've fed it well.

Rowdy and Levi used Rowdy's Model 7 in 7mm-08. It started out life as a .243, but teaching all the neighbor kids to shoot has a price (cooked barrel). Picked up a take-off 7-08 tube for cheap and had local smith swap for $50. It shoots 120 TTSXs well, and has accounted for three deer and a cow elk this season. Bullet has performed excellent, with no drama and none recovered.

Dave

I don't know how it could be better. Thanks for the well written post and great pictures. Really something about your boy taking his grandfathers knife. Good on you!

Good on you, Dave.

I have been blessed to be with my own son and my wife when they got their first deer. I have also been blessed to be with other children whose parents weren't able to take them hunting and it was a great feeling as well.

You have done a great favor for these boys and they will never forget you or the time you spent with them.

No man is diminished for time he spends with a kid.

God Bless!
CT

Great adventure, and the kids will remember it for all of their days... CP.

Very nice great story and pics.

There's the future! Thanks for that post iddave!

Glad to see threads like this.

Mike

Thanks for the story and pics, congrats on a great hunt! I've got 4 girls, a couple have been out moose hunting with me, but they haven't bagged their own yet.

What a great story and great hunts. I only wish you had let your son tag along and "help" on the last hunt. I think he deserved it.

Love it. Congratulations all!

Awesome job - well done!

Well done Dave. Seems you've been in on about a dozen kills this year.

I've had the pleasure of meeting Rowdy - he is a fine lad indeed and quite mature for his age. He's a yute, going on 40 - and the honey's flock to him. *grins*

Well done all around. It gets no better than this.

You da man Dave! Congrats to the boys!

Thanks for passin' our sport on

They won't soon forget it. Excellent.

Thanks for sharing with the boys and passing it on. And, thanks for sharing the story with us.

WAY TO GO.

Congrats to all involved.

Congrats to Rowdy, Levi, and Bode!

You young men did real well.

You also had a great "coach"

Thanks for sharing, it made my day.

Great job....

Dave -

First, thanks for the story and "Congrats!" to everyone involved.

Daughter #1 got her first big game animal ever last year - a Wyoming antelope doe. It was pretty awesome for me to watch. She is moving back to Colorado from the east coast in a couple months and will hunt elk for the first time next fall. The .280 I just bought was purchased with her and that hunt in mind.

Good job on helping all three kids fill their tags!