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<blockquote data-quote="chenocetah" data-source="post: 717294" data-attributes="member: 13521"><p>This thread reminded me of my oldest sons first hunt alone when he sat in a deer stand by himself (he was 7 yrs old at the time). He had been hunting with me since he was 3 and had taken a good many deer while he was in the stand with me looking over his shoulder. I had sat him up on a food plot lane one evening that was about 125 yds long and left him with one of our company radios and his trusty little single shot 223. About 30 min before dark I heard a shot ring out from towards his stand as I was hunting myself in another stand about 500 yds away with my youngest son who was 3 at the time. I patiently waited for him to contact me on the radio, wanting him to be a man and take charge of these situations by himself, but after about 5 min I couldn't stand it anymore and called out over the radio to him. You know as a father you begin to worry about all the things that can go wrong and wonder if he has shot himself or fell out of the stand or Lord knows what else. My brain was racing as he came back on the radio and said he had shot at a doe and he missed it. Well, you know what's coming now. Old Dad is going to try and still be the guru and know-it-all on the radio. We all know that many times a deer takes off at the sound of the shot and it might appear that the shot missed, but in actuality the deer has suffered a mortal wound. So......Here I am on the radio for the next minute or so giving my son a pep talk and telling him not to be so discouraged because he may not have missed and I knew he was a good shot and I would go get the coon hunting lights and we would look for blood and try and find his deer and to just try and concentrate on where the deer was standing when he shot so we would know where to start our search when I got there. My son came back on the radio and just calmly said he knew he had missed because the doe he shot at was at the far end of the food plot and it was STILL STANDING THERE EATING!! We have gotten many laughs out of that story over the years. My sons are 21 and 17 now and we spend every minute we can hunting or fishing together when we're not working.</p><p></p><p>I luv herfrds - You are doing the best thing you can ever do in spending time with your son outdoors and no matter how many deer your son harvests in the years to come, or how big a deer he ever gets in his lifetime, you can never get the first one again. I hope it comes soon for both of you. Good Luck!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chenocetah, post: 717294, member: 13521"] This thread reminded me of my oldest sons first hunt alone when he sat in a deer stand by himself (he was 7 yrs old at the time). He had been hunting with me since he was 3 and had taken a good many deer while he was in the stand with me looking over his shoulder. I had sat him up on a food plot lane one evening that was about 125 yds long and left him with one of our company radios and his trusty little single shot 223. About 30 min before dark I heard a shot ring out from towards his stand as I was hunting myself in another stand about 500 yds away with my youngest son who was 3 at the time. I patiently waited for him to contact me on the radio, wanting him to be a man and take charge of these situations by himself, but after about 5 min I couldn't stand it anymore and called out over the radio to him. You know as a father you begin to worry about all the things that can go wrong and wonder if he has shot himself or fell out of the stand or Lord knows what else. My brain was racing as he came back on the radio and said he had shot at a doe and he missed it. Well, you know what's coming now. Old Dad is going to try and still be the guru and know-it-all on the radio. We all know that many times a deer takes off at the sound of the shot and it might appear that the shot missed, but in actuality the deer has suffered a mortal wound. So......Here I am on the radio for the next minute or so giving my son a pep talk and telling him not to be so discouraged because he may not have missed and I knew he was a good shot and I would go get the coon hunting lights and we would look for blood and try and find his deer and to just try and concentrate on where the deer was standing when he shot so we would know where to start our search when I got there. My son came back on the radio and just calmly said he knew he had missed because the doe he shot at was at the far end of the food plot and it was STILL STANDING THERE EATING!! We have gotten many laughs out of that story over the years. My sons are 21 and 17 now and we spend every minute we can hunting or fishing together when we're not working. I luv herfrds - You are doing the best thing you can ever do in spending time with your son outdoors and no matter how many deer your son harvests in the years to come, or how big a deer he ever gets in his lifetime, you can never get the first one again. I hope it comes soon for both of you. Good Luck!! [/QUOTE]
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