Got all settled in opening morning, and just as it starts cracking light we can see 2 deer coming down the field edge from the east, headed straight to us. I could make out that one was a doe and the other a nice buck. They get to about 80 yards and the doe starts feeding, as the buck stands guard not 10 yards from her watching her every move. She would take a step, and he would take a step. They were almost in sync with each other. This whole time the buck is facing straight on to us, and I wasn't letting Hunter take that shot. We just watched and waited as the minutes (that seemed like hours) passed for a chance at a nice broadside shot. As she fed, she was gradually working her way to where she would eventually walk past us, so we waited. All of the sudden the doe throws her tail up and runs right down in front of us and stops at about 45 yards, and when he stopped he was standing broadside just behind her. Hunter took careful aim and touched it off, sending the buck on about a 40 yard death run. The Barnes Expander had center punched his heart. To say Hunter was excited would be an understatement. The boy was a an emotional mess for about 10 minutes afterward. After a bunch of hugs and a few tears, we went to find his prize and this is what we found..... SO PROUD OF MY BOYS!!!!!

lol great buck, congrats to you both.

WOW! Look at the width on that Indiana Eight!
A BEAUTY! BIG congrats to Hunter, and to you as well, Steve... great memories!!
VERY NICE

very nice!

Congrats to both of you. There is no better father son time than that!

Sweet! Love the kids stories.

Sweetness!

Love the Rossi youth mini-loader too!

nice buck for the young man and he did good, bet his stomach was churning as he waited for the perfect shot.

Congrats to you both!

congrats to you both, boys are a chip off the OLD block Scudder!

Great stuff right there, congratulations to both of you!!!

Great job young man!!

Thanks everyone. He is still grinning from ear to ear.

Great job to the little man and to dad for great coaching. It was worth the time waiting!!!!!

Fantastic! Great looking buck, Hunter.

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Durn look at that buck! Wow, congrats to the young man!!

awesome

congrats young man

Awesome!! Congrats

A lifetime memory for the both of you. Awesome!

Congrats, that's a really nice buck !!

Thanks guys... Now to hopefully get his big brother on one yet this year.

That is a great deer! I need to get down there (again!) and let him show me the rack, and tell me the story!!

C'mon down. I know he'd be more than happy to tell you all about it. Will say this tho, if yer gonna ask him about the loins, I know what he'll tell you. He was asked once already...

Dammit!!! guess I'm gonna have to kill my own deer…..

Sounds like he's not falling for the "let me cut out those poison glands for you" trick....ha!

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Nope, he won't fall for that one anytime soon... ... The boys love eating their deer. Whenever they see steaks laying out thawing, they ask "Whose deer are they from?? Are they from mine???"... Ended up with 76 pounds of bone free meat from Hunter's deer. When we went to pick it up, we had to use 2 coolers. I grabbed one and headed to the truck and was going to go back for the other one. When I got to the truck I looked back and Hunter was toting the other one. He was about 5 different shades of red and grunting with each step, but he was so excited about getting his meat back that he packed it out all on his own.

Couldn't be any happier for you guys!!!! Congrats on a biggin'