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<blockquote data-quote="Shoot 708" data-source="post: 1028643" data-attributes="member: 57607"><p>I got our son the first bow in the family 2 years ago. In Utah, youth hunters can hunt deer all 3 seasons using their rifle tag. We thought it would be good to give archery a try, no extra tag needed. He's become a good shooter. Unlike me, this kid has NO buck fever no matter the situation. At 15, I will give him first shot at anything we are going after. He got a good chance at a nice mule deer this year we had put the stalk on. We came around some brush into a clearing and there was the deer we had seen earlier. Pretty buck in the velvet, glowing in the evening sun. My job was running the range finder, the buck was looking straight at us, I didn't think he would give me time to range him. So I'm whispering "get on him, get on him". My son's whispering "range him, range him" as he draws back. I guess 35 yards, "use your second pin, if he turns shoot". The buck took a couple steps away from us but kept his eyes on us. That gave a pretty good broadside presentation, my son sends the arrow. We hear the arrow bounce through the brush Behind the deer. Deer runs off. I gather my senses, take a couple steps forward and range the oak bush behind where the deer was standing. 25 yards. We look for blood, we look for the arrow. Can't find either. I'm in trouble for not doing my job, my son can't believe he missed. We decide it must have just barely gone high over the back. I'm still shaking, my sons not at all. 3 weeks later my son gets his deer with the muzzle loader, not as big as the archery buck but a challenging 80 yard shot through a thick aspen grove. 8 weeks later I redeem myself with a nice buck opening morning of the rifle hunt. It's not til a few days later that we discover, while processing the head for an European mount that I shot the same deer he had taken the shot at. He didn't miss after all. I need to figure out how to load pics and should do our hunt experience as its own thread. But it looks like we need to "stick with it" and put archery elk on the bucket list now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shoot 708, post: 1028643, member: 57607"] I got our son the first bow in the family 2 years ago. In Utah, youth hunters can hunt deer all 3 seasons using their rifle tag. We thought it would be good to give archery a try, no extra tag needed. He's become a good shooter. Unlike me, this kid has NO buck fever no matter the situation. At 15, I will give him first shot at anything we are going after. He got a good chance at a nice mule deer this year we had put the stalk on. We came around some brush into a clearing and there was the deer we had seen earlier. Pretty buck in the velvet, glowing in the evening sun. My job was running the range finder, the buck was looking straight at us, I didn't think he would give me time to range him. So I'm whispering "get on him, get on him". My son's whispering "range him, range him" as he draws back. I guess 35 yards, "use your second pin, if he turns shoot". The buck took a couple steps away from us but kept his eyes on us. That gave a pretty good broadside presentation, my son sends the arrow. We hear the arrow bounce through the brush Behind the deer. Deer runs off. I gather my senses, take a couple steps forward and range the oak bush behind where the deer was standing. 25 yards. We look for blood, we look for the arrow. Can't find either. I'm in trouble for not doing my job, my son can't believe he missed. We decide it must have just barely gone high over the back. I'm still shaking, my sons not at all. 3 weeks later my son gets his deer with the muzzle loader, not as big as the archery buck but a challenging 80 yard shot through a thick aspen grove. 8 weeks later I redeem myself with a nice buck opening morning of the rifle hunt. It's not til a few days later that we discover, while processing the head for an European mount that I shot the same deer he had taken the shot at. He didn't miss after all. I need to figure out how to load pics and should do our hunt experience as its own thread. But it looks like we need to "stick with it" and put archery elk on the bucket list now. [/QUOTE]
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