Opening Day afternoon hunt

[Jamebo]

Well, what an afternoon my 10yr old son and I had. We had a nice setup on the edge of lots of oaks sitting between a couple of trails feeding into it. The wind was right for that eve, so we headed out at 3:30pm. The action started early with does coming out around 5:30 feeding on acorns and new growth coming up. A big 6ptr came out and I ended passing a smaller 8ptr that came within 10yds. Twenty minutes later, a real big 8ptr came up another trail and ended up within 10 yds of us. I had no shot and was waiting for this buck to keep walking by so I could get an arrow off. Well, he ended up stopping at 10yds and scanned the clearcut in front of him. As he was scanning, my boy moved a little and you know the rest of the story....busted. It really was a cool experience even though I didn't put my tag on him, I must say. I sat there for a moment and remembered back when i was his age and thought how cool that would have been to see a 8ptr that big at such a close range. I havn't even lost sleep over it, just cool to have a setup work that I scouted for a year ago. Maybe my arrow may find that buck another day.

[DEERSLAYER]

A great shared memory that will be cherished for a long time to come.

[dan]

[Matt3]

Very nice. The memories are better than the kill

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[Scot]

A great experience to share with your son!

[headgear]

Cool story, like you said sometimes the experience is just as good or better than the kill.

[Stanley]

Sounds like a good hunt to me.