My youngest daughter has hunted hard this year and every time I've offered up "do you want to go hunting?" she has answered an enthusiastic "yes". She has killed several with a rifle and one with a crossbow in past years, and she was insistent that she wanted to connect again this year before gun season came in. We came so close on Friday evening but the young buck that night just knew something wasn't right.

Saturday evening we were hunting a double stand that I had never hunted before. The evening was pretty uneventful outside of watching a lone doe feed for about 20 minutes 200 or so yards away in a neighbor's field. Then with about 15 minutes of legal time left I saw a deer moving across our back field probably 150 yards out. We were 50 yards deep in the woods and the winds were howling, so I figured no way he could hear a grunt call. But I got on the grunt call hard anyway. He stopped, turned on a dime, and RAN right to our tree. It all happened so fast it was crazy. I stopped him with a hard grunt and Sydney thumped him at a mere 6 yards, right in the shoulder, shattering the offside leg bone. He bounded about 40 yards and crashed. I was so proud of her and she has been on Cloud 9 ever since. We took some photos yesterday in the daylight hours in between church and her basketball tournament.

Congrats to Sydney! Looks like a decent body buck.

congrats to Sydney

Nice!

congrats to Sydney!!! That is a great looking November whitetail buck.

Great photos too, what kind of DSLR setup are you using?

congrats to her! nice buck.

I shot these on a Canon 7D and a couple different lenses. Photography has been a growing hobby of mine the past 7 or 8 years. I wanted to shoot some more stuff with her and this buck, but she was "cold" and we had only a few minutes between church and her basketball tourney to get some day light photos done.

Cool. I use a canon t3 with a 50mm f/1.8 lens mostly.

I would like to get a wider lens for some more flexibility but the 50mm f/1.8 takes some great shots.

Very very nice Sydney. Congrats Dec.

Those two close ups were shot with that exact same lens.

That T3 will take great photos. In fact I am considering buying a T3 body for my oldest daughter, as she has shown an interest in shooting photos.

Nice! The T3 does all I need it to, it also is inexpensive enough for me to carry to the woods and not worry too much..

Amazon has them in stock. What are you waiting on? Buy her one!! =)

Congrats to her on a great deer.

Congrats Sydney

Congrats Sydney!
Nice pics proud dad.

That is all so cool! Congrats.

What a thrill for her and you! Nice buck!

Nice buck young lady and also great photography as well!

Great job Sydney

Awesome! Congrats!!