Our Saturdays hunt went like this.
I let her and I sleep in till 9 as I planned on us sitting mostly during the late morning and afternoon hoping we'd see more movement then. We each had a small breakfast and smoked up our clothes in the opened garage and headed out by 9:35. We got to our stand and set up just before 10am. We sat till 1:39 before seeing our first deer which was a small doe by itself coming out of a finger about 100 yards away. It crossed on over to another finger after browsing in the beans a few minutes. About 20 minutes later Karissa sees another doe pop out of a corner about 200 yards away heading away from us through a gap leading to another part of the same beanfield. At 2:10 I ask her if she's alright and if she wants to keep hunting and she said, yes, I'm good! About 5-10 minutes later I see a nice 8 point buck walking the edge of a finger towards the treestand we hunted the previous night when she shot at the small busted up 8 point. It's at the head of a long finger that comes back toward us and I told her to be ready because he might make his way toward us very soon.
About 5 minutes later I crouch down to whisper for her to keep her eyes peeled and as I look past her I see him coming our way about 50-60 yards away heading for our 18 yard chip shot lanes at the field edge. He must have caught our movement because when he got to within 10 yards of our lanes he locked up for 2-3 long minutes surveying the situation behind a thick cedar tree which was blocking our view of him. I already had the camera rolling hoping he would come on through. Unfortunately he did a 180 and simply walked away. We were both dejected but glad to have the encounter and know he wasn't totally boogered. The look on her face afterwards told be she was pumped and excited about what just happened. She said, I'm sure glad we stayed out here! I told her that bucks should be on the move and to keep her eyes peeled. About an hour later it was 3:50 and I hear her whisper, Hey daddy, you think we should leave now? I said sorry babe, but its TOO late now because its PRIMETIME! She said ok but just said she was getting hungry. I fixed that by giving her a small snickers bar and some Gatorade to hold her over. Then about 15 minutes later I kneel down again to whisper something to her and while I was communicating with her, her eyes got big and she pointed down below and the buck she shot at yesterday was walking past us at 28 yards with no shot opportunities. I still managed some great video of him and grunted to stop him for a better look and check him out. He eventually went on his way. She whispered back to me afterwards that she's glad we stayed again!
After about a half an hour I hear her whisper that she sees horns coming our way again! I turn on my camera and video another young buck(6 point) slipping up the creek about 33 yards out offering no shot but plenty of footage. She wouldn't have shot either of the last two bucks but this was definitely pumping her up!!!
Just about 5:10 she sees 5 more deer filter out into the field and all were antlerless but there were two big nanny does among the group. This brought our total deer count for the 7.5 hour hunt up to 10 total.
She was a real trooper and I'm one proud dad!!!!! This girl has got a lot of patience and is truly loving this new sport! She is all pumped for our Friday evening hunt coming up and can't wait to get back after a nice buck. She said she is willing to eat her tag if she has to because she enjoys the hunt and knows when she shoots one she is done hunting for the year. She wants to be really satisfied with what she kills and is willing to hold out. That is her choice and I'm fine with that. Plus it gives us more time to hunt together....:smiley_coolpeace:
