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Post by wtlhaven on Sept 28, 2009 20:08:59 GMT -5
Tristan made a great shot over the weekend to take his 5th deer of his short hunting career. We seen 3 early feeding on a clover plot, and 2 of them fed through fast and headed back to where we planted some beans back the end of June. So we decided to head back to the bean patch but scratched the idea of sitting in his ladder stand that over looks the South end of the beans, which was wrong for the wind anyway, and decided to set up at the other end of the bean field in the corn rows that I had planted just for the purpose of dropping a blind in to hunt with a South wind. It worked out great. We had 3 bucks and 2 (what I thought) were does work out of the timber. They all came out right by his ladder stand. The biggest buck fed a mere 15 yds of that stand. After 15-20 minutes or so, the two "does" slowly started feeding toward us. They got to 78 yds and almost acted like they were going to either go back the other way or step in the woods, so I told him to go ahead and pick his shot. He made a great slightly quartering away shot with his .45 Rossi muzzleloader. It ended up being a button buck, but it don't matter to me what it was. As far as I'm concerned, he can shoot anything he wants granted that it's legal... I couldn't be prouder and he's not gonna stop wearing his smile for a while.  I also am attaching a pic of the 10 point that was in front of his ladder stand. He's dieing to get in that stand now come bow season, granted the wind allows him too.   |
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Post by whitetail1 on Sept 28, 2009 20:22:01 GMT -5
Congrats to you and to Tristan. I hope he gets an opportunity at that 10 pointer.
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Post by woodmaster on Sept 28, 2009 20:42:16 GMT -5
Congrats!
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Post by raporter on Sept 28, 2009 21:26:31 GMT -5
Great shot Tristan. Lots of happy dads on here.
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Post by bsutravis on Sept 28, 2009 22:15:37 GMT -5
Great doe! Congrats!
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Post by ridgerunner on Sept 29, 2009 5:54:59 GMT -5
Nice one! Congrats.
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Post by turkeyscout on Sept 29, 2009 7:16:58 GMT -5
and you should be proud! i have seen this little guy(tristan) photos many times. hunting with family and making memories ,"just doesn't get any better than this!" thanks for sharing...TAKE A YOUNGSTER ON YOR NEXT OUTDOOR EXPERIENCE.......WTLHAVEN DID!................turkey scout
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Post by dbd870 on Sept 29, 2009 7:18:35 GMT -5
Nice shooting Tristan- way to lay it in there, Congrats!
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Post by HighCotton on Sept 29, 2009 7:47:45 GMT -5
Good shootin' Tristan! I'd say from the pics - great shot. Looks to me, that given the chance, that 10 point is history.
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Post by davepowers on Sept 29, 2009 16:53:12 GMT -5
Nice job. How old is Tristan? What load and bullet weight did you use?
Dave
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Post by wtlhaven on Sept 30, 2009 10:57:22 GMT -5
Thanks to everyone for the nice words. He's still stoked and is really anticipating getting back out there with his bow. This is his first year with a bow, so we'll see how it works out. He's been shooting all summer long and is doing really well with it out to 20 yds. Now if he can just contain his nerves to make the shot.... LOL
davepowers..... Tristan is 9 years old.... He is shooting 80 gr of 777 and a 200 gr T/C Shockwave.
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Post by lucky on Oct 1, 2009 9:36:50 GMT -5
good job guys. thats the way to keep kids out of trouble! keep em in the woods and teach em life lessons.
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Post by Woody Williams on Oct 1, 2009 9:38:40 GMT -5
Congratulations!!
That young man is pretty consistant with laying them on the ground.
Good luck on the ten pointer..
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Post by Decatur on Oct 1, 2009 10:08:48 GMT -5
Awesome!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2009 7:17:01 GMT -5
Nice job! And a good lesson in patience watching that 10 pointer walk by!
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