Saturday morning after a fantastic breakfast from our chief cook Bill Meyers(sausage and biscuits) we had our seven youths on stand well before daylight. By noon we had one mature doe taken, skiinned and quartered and in cooler.

After a quick lunch of pulled smoke wild hog plans were being made for the afternoon hunt. One Youth(Colt) wanted to go deer hunting "now", so off we go to his shooting house. I told his dad "call me when he wants to come back no way can he last until dark". An hour later I get a text message with update....



At 3:00pm another youth and dad leave only to return 30 minutes later, another mature doe taken. Walking to the stand they caught a doe feeding in the middle of the road. One shot and dead in her tracks! Drove the truck to her to load no tracking! Two deer the first night and a couple misses by the other youth hunters.

Sunday morning comes and we have 5 youths out in stand before daylight. First to shoot is my Grandson AJ. I get the text "dead doe dropped on the spot". I asked them to exit the stand and sneak out as we had another youth nearby, this is all before 8:00 am. Shortly after 9:00 am I get another text....



Colt AJ's best friend has his first deer. We go and recover both deer, AJ and Colt dragged(with help) their deer, field dressed them and with mentoring and a little help did the butchering. Following are some pictures.



The boys and the work after the "fun"



Work smarter not harder, a sawzall in a hunters hands is a vital tool! YES..... we let them do it ALL



Here's Bobby with his first deer, Bobby killed is first turkey also this past spring at our youth hunt.



3 mature does and one doe fawn. we did well and I can tell you the youth had a ball.

Anyone who attended please feel free to add comments and pictures you have. Three of the four successfull hunters took their first deer ever. Great food, great experiences, great friends, we had it all.

We had a previous youth hunter and dad join us JKD and son Chris, they coyote hunted Saturday evening. Other of the youth went fishing, squirrel hunting,dove hunting and even found time to pass the football in down spare time. Television was not turned on until after dinner 9:00pm on Saturday. Can't wait until our next youth hunt!