First Day of Hunting

In this post I will tell you about the first time I have ever been hunting. I wasn’t old enough to shoot my bow yet so I went with my step-dad. It was bow season and neither one of us really knew what we were doing.

I suggested to my step-dad that we should go hunting and he agreed, so he called my uncle and asked if we could go on his land and he said anytime. Well my step-dad didn’t have a bow and bow season was right around the corner, so he got a nice bow. He bought it in September and bow season was at the end of August. Since my step-dad had never shot a bow in his life, so he had to practice religiously for about a month and a half.

Well the first day of hunting season has around the corner, and couldn’t have been more prepared if we wanted to. We had camo, scent cover up, and a bow. This is about all you need in bow season.

The first day was finally here and we headed out in the woods. We got put in the best treestand since we had never killed a deer before. We got out there about 6:30am and didn’t leave till about 10:00am. Just when I was getting bored two doe showed up. I was amazed because I didn’t think we would see anything.

We didn’t shoot them because we didn’t know if we could shoot doe or not so we held off. We told my uncle what we had saw, and he said we should’ve shot them. I was kind of mad that we didn’t because they would’ve been so easy to shoot.

We went out that night at about 4:00pm and left about 7:45pm. Well just as I was giving up hope again the same two doe came in again. This time we knew we could take them. My step-dad stood up and drew his bow back. It took a second to get sight of the kill zone, but eventually we did and my step-dad let the arrow fly.

I heard a big smack as the arrow hit the deer in the neck. It dropped where it stood and squirmed for about thirty seconds, then the deer went limp.

We were so excited, especially that it only took one day to kill a deer. It took me three years to kill my first deer. Well anyways we took it to the processors and I ate deer meat for the first time the day we got the meat back.

Picture of a whitetail deer (doe), can be found at 

http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/huntwild/hunt/wma/images/matador_sisk_pen_white_tailed_doe_smaller.jpg