been so busy as of late but i had to ,like any proud father would share in sons first deer hunt here in michigan,,for the youth season here sept.26,27 son was more than ready,and earger to go. as he deiced to use his muzzleloader cva magbolt 50 inline. he used a sabot hornady 240 grain xtp on top of 2 50 grain 777 pellets. my old muzzleloader i gave him,when i bought my t/c encore pro hunter 209x50. his cva was topted with a nikon 3x9x40. on the night of the 25th son was to excited to sleep,he was up all night,playing moder warfare 2 to help him pass the time,,i was finally finished packing gear,and washing hunting cloaths at 1:00 am before that i worked all day,then did brake job on other sons car. yes i was tired by 1:00am. so i went to bed. got up at 5:00am to leave for our 2 1/2 hour drive,,was at our location by 7:30 am. did some stalking,really didnt exspect to see anything,so it was more quality time,and getting him warmed up for what was to come for our after noon hunt. we went back into town got something to eat,and went to cabin to make him rest,and get some sleep,i told him i dint want him in the climber with a gun,being tired. so i got him to sleep 2 hours. then got him up to go out again. we made it to one of my 6 hot spots,and was up the trees by 3:30 ish ,,sitting there a short while i had the video camera so used it showing how high up the tree he was,,the senery,and at times,filming his excitement watching him scan the cattails watvhing for deer,while eating his beef jerky. at about 3:45 the action started to heat up,,he passed up 3 does that came in within shooting range he decided to pass on. to back track just a tad,,on our drive up i told him if he shoots,and gets a buck id give him my 45 xd..keep that in mind, anyway as he let the does walk,a shot while later we had 2 more come inunder our stands,he let them go as well,,,ahour or so passed,,and a spike,and button buck came in,and bedded right under us! was there for about a hour 5 min. then wondered off. im thinking all this time,,he was unable to kill,or shoot any of these deer weve seen. when they left the area,,he asked to sit on the ground as he was cold,,getting real close to prime time,,we got down in a timely fashion,and sat on the ground 10 to 15 ft from stands. he said it was much better as he was cold in the tree. while sitting on the groud,we heard 2 bucks sparring,witch son thought that was real cool. at 7:25 pm i knoticed a nice 5 pointer comming our way,nice body mass 3 point on his left beam,2 points on his right beam. all i said was here comes a buck,,,he was cool as can be, watched the buck close the distance. then the buck turned,walking right to us head on. he cleared the berch trees,and was 15 yrds,in front of us,stopted and was looking arround. before i knew it son shot!,,and dropted him in his tracks! i was filming the whole thing,and son looked over at me,and said deals a deal,the 45 xd is mine-lol-lol i told him you little ****!! its like you planned this-lol he was shacking from nerves,trying not to show excitement,but then said, did i do ok? i said you kidding me,,you did that like a seasoned pro. we waited 20 min. to cam down,and let him die out,but to be honest i think he was dead before he dropted. we both just sat there and shared this moment in my sons life,first deer hunt,first buck. as i feild dressed him out,,the bullet hit the lower main artery,entered the heart,lungs,liver,and stoped in the stomach. it was an impressive shot. took us 2 hours to get him out of the woods on deer cart back to the car,and another 1/2 hour to the processors. we then celibrated with a nice dinner. at witch point i told him we still have sun to get him a doe. he said no,i think ill use that tag for regular season when we all go out. so sun we sleep in,then went back out to collect our climbers.while we were out he wanted to shoot his new 45 xd,,i had brought some 180 grain devistaors i made ,casted for him to shoot,he was shooting apples of a apple tree hitting everyone,not missing a single one. so i guess that answered the question if he could handle a 45 acp. then when we started back home,i pulled the car over,walked arround to his side,and opened the door and said,ok you drive me arround,,he looked at me like noooo way!! i said you got to start learning sometime. so he drove about 3 miles,and did well. on the way home he told me it was the best wkend hes ever had. and i was proud to be part of it,and there for him.
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You now have a life long "huntin pardner" .
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Congratulations to your son on his first deer and to you dad for being an outstanding father.
