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Thanks for sharing and congrats on providing these young men with life long memories.
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Well Done! Details on the 243 and 7mm-08 the young men used please. Need ideas for a first deer rifle for my grand daughter. 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
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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!
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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
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Great adventure, and the kids will remember it for all of their days... CP.
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Very nice great story and pics.
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There's the future! Thanks for that post iddave!
Glad to see threads like this.
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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.
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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.
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Love it. Congratulations all!
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Selmer "Daddy, can you sometime maybe please go shoot a water buffalo so we can have that for supper? Please? And can I come along? Does it taste like deer?" - my 3-year old daughter
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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*
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Well done all around. It gets no better than this.
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You da man Dave! Congrats to the boys!
Thanks for passin' our sport on
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They won't soon forget it. Excellent.
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Thanks for sharing with the boys and passing it on. And, thanks for sharing the story with us.
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WAY TO GO.
Congrats to all involved.
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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.
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... If you haven't taken a kid hunting recently, I can't recommend it highly enough. It's a little extra work to be sure, but the payoff is incredible�
Dave 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!
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