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A Good afternoon
One afternoon my dad and I decided to go hunting. We climbed to our stands, and I texted him to tell him I was in all right. Then I put an arrow in my bow and hung it on the bow hanger. It was a nice afternoon; the little birds were chirping; the fat squirrels were barking. The farmers had taken half the corn off, and they had beans cut and tilled up, so a wonderful smell of fall filled in the air.
As I sat in my stand, I heard a crunch, so I looked. There has a doe and little buck, so I let them walk. There was a field that I could barely see, but I saw a buck. It was a nice buck. Then it left, and I didn’t see it anymore. I sat there and texted my dad to see if he had seen any. He said, “Yes.” I was kind of jealous because I didn’t have one yet, and he shot one earlier in the season. I sat there playing a hunting game on my phone until the deer moved, and but I didn’t see any. I was sitting in a bottom of the ravine, so it was darker there faster. It was dark for me, but the field I could still see.
I climbed down and something told me to put my arrow back in my bow. Unsure why, I did anyway. I started slowly walking up the ravine and looked at the top of the field; then I walked the field line. I looked up and saw there was a deer, and it was a buck. I jumped on my knees, and I saw it was headed to my dad. I told him, “Sit tight.” A big buck is headed your way. Then I snuck over to a big bush, so it would hide me. I heard it start lightly jogging through the corn. I looked up, and he came right to me!
Stunned, I stopped him about twenty yards from me. Anxiously, I shot. I just remember the sound of the arrow leaving and listening to the “thwack” sound it made when the arrow hit him. I started getting nervous. I just thought to myself, ‘Big Buck Down.’ I watched him run away, listening to the corn break. I was excited because I knew I made a good shot, so I called my dad and told him, “I hit him good.” I was watching the deer as I was talking to him. I didn’t see the deer enter the woods, but I was not sure. My dad walked to me; then we talked about it, and then we started to trail the deer. I couldn’t find blood, and I was getting worried because I thought I had a good shot. I cut to the other field. I walked in between the field lines, and I found blood! I was delighted. I was the happiest kid in the world.
We followed it, and my dad kept telling me to shine in front of me because he thought he saw it. I didn’t; then he told me to again. I did, and there he lay, my first buck with a bow. Cheerfully, I elevated his big rack. It was the heaviest deer I’ve seen around here. He was heavy as a horse. Then we gutted it. I won’t soon forget as I stuck my hands in the deer and watched the steam roll out of his belly. We loaded the buck. The next day I went to the check in station and weighed him, and he weighted 220 pounds field dressed. The deer had eleven points. I was proud.
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