Grandson's first deer

[Deer Slayer]

Opening day of the special youth season this year my son, Huckleberry 75, and I took his son Maddox on his first hunt. Maddox,age 7, has been wanting to go with us for a year so it was time. We climbed into the shooting house before daylight and settled in. Shortly after legal shooting time we heard a shot close by. The shot came from another shooting house that a guest and his son were in. Turned out the guest’s son harvested an 8 point that was sparing with a 7 pointer.
Soon afterwards we see a nice buck trailing a doe and yearling on the other side of our neighbors fence. Huckleberry had a good look at him and felt he was around 130”. What a great first deer for Maddox that would be. None of the deer hopped over the fence but went on. An hour later the doe and yearling returned. The doe hopped the fence and walked into the food plot and stopped at 35 yards. Maddox swiveled in his chair and pulled the trigger. Maddox was one happy camper.

 

[magna19]

Great job Maddox!!!!!

 

[swampratt]

OH YEA!! Way to go Maddox.
Good job on the family getting involved also.. congrats to all.
Did he stick around and help skin it etc??

 

[D. Hargrove]

Maddox, Huckleberry and you are blessed to have this memory ......

 

[surjimmy]

Very cool indeed.

 

[dlbleak]

Congrats! Good times

 

[Deer Slayer]

Maddox helped gut and skin. He had a gift waiting for this moment. His right of passage. He received a McCroskey elk hunter knife to start his journey with. He knew the importance of that knife and it will remain in the gun safe until rifle season.

 

[Deer Slayer]

He sure was proud of this

 

[kwaynem]

Very nice knife and congrats on the hunt

 

[makeithappen]

Congratulations to him! Awesome experience!