Gobble Gobble
Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2005 4:46 am
Took my stepson huntin up in Clay County, TX. My sister and her husband have a nice ranch up there. This weekend is a "Special Youth Season" for those 16 and under. My stepson is 10 and has yet to kill his first deer.
We were hoping for a deer to wander by the feeder. One little doe showed for a bit and he passed on takin a shot. He missed a nice buck from this spot a couple of weekends back and he was hoping for another crack at the bucky boy. We had a good time watching these clowns scarfin up the corn.
Before any body gives me any flak about huntin by a feeder, I'm not hunting. I want the boy to get one and learn how to handle his first one correctly. I'll teach him to still hunt when he can go for more than 5 seconds without talking about something. I don't own a kid sized centerfire and at the rate he's growing, I'm not going to invest in one. Full sized rifles are still a bit long for him so he has to shoot from a rest. I've got him waggin my old 257 Roberts that I built on a Mexican small ring 98 action back in 71. Got him wearing ear protectors too. He griped a bit at first and then I reminded him how deaf I am now and asked him if he wanted that.
We were hoping for a deer to wander by the feeder. One little doe showed for a bit and he passed on takin a shot. He missed a nice buck from this spot a couple of weekends back and he was hoping for another crack at the bucky boy. We had a good time watching these clowns scarfin up the corn.
Before any body gives me any flak about huntin by a feeder, I'm not hunting. I want the boy to get one and learn how to handle his first one correctly. I'll teach him to still hunt when he can go for more than 5 seconds without talking about something. I don't own a kid sized centerfire and at the rate he's growing, I'm not going to invest in one. Full sized rifles are still a bit long for him so he has to shoot from a rest. I've got him waggin my old 257 Roberts that I built on a Mexican small ring 98 action back in 71. Got him wearing ear protectors too. He griped a bit at first and then I reminded him how deaf I am now and asked him if he wanted that.