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Woodsman
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I'm proud to say that my dad was able to take a nice little buck this morning in Illinois. It's muzzleloader season and he shot it with his .45cal Kentucky percussion rifle. This is only his second deer. The only hunting he does is during the gun season, and he doesn't really care if he harvests anything. He mainly just goes to enjoy the woods and my company.
He was sitting on the side of a ridge overlooking a creek. I saw the buck from my stand and then it disappeared behind my dad's ridge. A few minutes later I heard the unmistakable bark of his muzzleloader and saw the deer take off through the bottoms. I got him on the radio and he didn't think that he hit it. I told him to wait and I got down out of my tree and walked to where the deer had been. I quickly found blood, so we backed off up the hill and sat against a log for about an hour and chit-chatted about the woods, work, life, etc.
We walked down to the creek and had no trouble following the blood trail. The buck ran about 60 yards and expired right on a 4-wheeler trail. He had made a perfect shot. I'm curious to find his round ball tomorrow when we skin him. It passed through the ribs on the opposite side, but didn't make it out of the skin.
It was exciting to me to be there for the hunt with him. It's hard to beat quality father/son time in the deer woods.
Congrats Pa!
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