November of 2019 I built a bow for my cousin for his birthday. He has never owned a bow of any kind and he dove into Trad head first! He practiced his but off all year to hopefully be ready to hunt this year.
I have been teaching him as much as I can about bow hunting and about how I go about hunting our highly pressured public land.
He's had a lot of ups and downs this season including a miss on a decent 10 point and even running over his bow ! But he stuck with it.
As some of y'all know I haven't been able to get out much myself this year due to my wife's health issues but she has been feeling pretty good the last few days and yesterday I was able to venture out.
So Tommy and I decided to hunt together and we went to a spot where I knew we would have a real good chance of at least seeing some deer and possibly get a shot. I even told him on the way in one of us was going to kill a deer today !
As luck would have it I didn't see a single deer but got a text from him about 15 minutes before dark saying that he had shot a buck. So I quickly loaded up and headed his way. We were hunting the Leeward side of a ridge with some thick bedding we were about 400 yards apart. When I got to where he was he had already recovered and field dressed it.
I was SO pumped for him!!!
I honestly don't think he realizes the difficulty of what he achieved his first year hunting traditional! First year bow hunting ever, with traditional gear, on highly pressured public land! I don't know who is excited more, him or me!
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Well done. :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Awesome Congratulations and Well Done!!!
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Congrats nice bucks.
Excellent story....congrats!
congratts! on your first. :thumbsup:
Big congrats to your cousin on a fine buck !!! Hope your wife keeps improving :thumbsup:
Congratulations to ya'll!
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you're a good man Randy! :campfire:
Excellent! Quite an accomplishment!
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Well done...
,,Sam,,
Outstanding! Hopefully your cousins sticks with it and comes to realize what a special thing he did in his first Trad season. Nice Story! Thanks.
Well done!
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Bisch
Well done gentlemen and good shooting Tommy. Congratulations on the first of many.
That's a heck of a first trad kill! :thumbsup:
Well done. Congrats to both of you. :thumbsup:
Deno
That is a really good first hunt. Congrats!
Awesome! It's gonna be hard for him to to that! He set the bar pretty high.
Glad to hear your wife is better.
Congratulations, I'm excited for both of you!
Gotta love good news and good stories right now!! Awesome stuff!
Nothing to it. :bigsmyl: Good job thats fantastic.
Great job all around! Congrats! :thumbsup:
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Congratulations.
Awesome!
Excellent job!