First Deer Of The Year

Yesterday Grandpa and I went up Indian river to go deer hunting. We went in to some open timber to hunt for deer. Just after we had gotten in to the open timber I decided that I was going to find a spot and sit and wait for a little while, and Grandpa said that he would got to the dry river bed and and look for rocks. I found a spot and sat and what’d for about ten minutes  then I got up and went to find Grandpa. After I had found Grandpa we walked up through the timber some more. We had walked a bit further and has I was was coming from around a tree I saw a deer standing and looking strait at me. There was a little sitka spruce sapling in the way so I could not get a super clear shot but I was afraid that the deer was going to get away so I shot. Since it was facing me strait on I aimed for the neck I dropped the deer. It was between 75 and 100 yards away when I shot it. Grandpa and I when up to it. It was a buck not a big buck but it was still the biggest buck I had ever shot. I gutted it out and then we ate lunch. After we ate lunch I turned the deer in to a back pack and we started to pack it out. We took turns carrying the deer since the deer was a little to big for me to pack out all by my self very fast so I would take the rifle and the packs and Grandpa would take the deer for a ways then we would switch. It took us about 3 to 3 and a half hours to get the deer all the way home. It was exciting for me to get the deer.first-buck-jpgfirst-buckUpdate

This bullet was the bullet that I shot this buck with we found it while we were butchering the deer. It was lodged in part of the back strap. I saw where the bullet had hit part of the neck as well.

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