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Wife's First Deer
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11/18/14 02:56 AM
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Joined: Jun 2014
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Mountain Man
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Went out to the lease this last Wednesday since I had a few days before I start a new job. I got a call from my wife on Friday and she told me she was thinking about coming up to the lease. One of my buddies came up Friday and he brought his wife with him to the lease. I called my wife and let her know she would not be the only woman in camp and that sealed the deal, she was coming. Luckily one of my other buddies was coming up Friday also and my wife was able to ride up with him. My wife has hunted with me one time about five years ago and shot a boar hog and got pretty excited then. It took me by surprise when she wanted to go hunting Saturday morning. We saw quite a few deer that morning but none she wanted to take. After the morning hunt I was able to show her around the whole lease and she fell in love with it. We headed back out that afternoon and were seeing quite of few deer movement early. Around 4:30 I saw a large bodied deer walk across behind the feeder in the brush and I could tell it was a buck and he was not going to come to the feeder. I told her to watch where I thought he would come out on the fence line, and luckily he stopped and starting eating where we had corned on the fence line. When she saw him she said" Oh My Goodness", and I could tell her blood was pumping when she told me she wanted to take him. I told her to put the Ruger 270 out the window slowly and get on him with the scope. She told me she had him in the scope but he was not broadside. I said just be patient and he would turn for her and he did. She said she was ready so I took it off safety and told her to put the cross hairs right behind his front shoulder and squeeze the trigger when she felt she had it on him. She quickly told me she was shaking too bad to keep it on him so I put it back on safety and told her to take some deep breaths and we would try it again when she calmed down. She waited until he turned broad side again and she said she was ready again. She got on him and I took it off safety again and she let it go. She made a perfect heart shot and he fell right in his tracks. She jumped up out of her chair and let out a scream and gave me a high five. She wanted to go down to him right now and I had to tell her we needed to give him a little time to make sure he was down for good. After the longest five minutes of her life I told her we could go down and see him. She got down and ran down to him before I could even get out of the stand. When I got down there with her she was grinning ear to ear and told me that she never felt a rush like that and she knew why we do it. Needless to say it was a great weekend and it was great to spend it with my best friend my wife.
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Re: Wife's First Deer
[Re: Mountain Man]
#5427753
11/18/14 03:00 AM
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ETXFIREMAN 1
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Awesome story and great buck!!!!
No doubt about the AR crap, just damn shame hunters don't have self control and knowledge
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Re: Wife's First Deer
[Re: ETXFIREMAN 1]
#5427761
11/18/14 03:04 AM
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Deerhunter61
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Awesome! Congratulations to your Wife! And you! It's nice to hear your wife is your best friend...my wife us my best friend too!
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Re: Wife's First Deer
[Re: Mountain Man]
#5427766
11/18/14 03:05 AM
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WBYHunter
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God Family Hunting
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Re: Wife's First Deer
[Re: ETXFIREMAN 1]
#5427873
11/18/14 03:41 AM
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stxranchman
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Awesome story and great buck!!!!
Are idiots multiplying faster than normal people?
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Re: Wife's First Deer
[Re: Mountain Man]
#5427912
11/18/14 04:07 AM
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dogcatcher
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Combat Infantryman, the ultimate hunter where the prey shoots back. _____________"Illegitimus non carborundum est"_______________
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Re: Wife's First Deer
[Re: Mountain Man]
#5428116
11/18/14 11:30 AM
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Stub
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Congrats
“I never forget a face—but in your case, I’ll be glad to make an exception.” —Groucho Marx
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Re: Wife's First Deer
[Re: Mountain Man]
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11/18/14 12:52 PM
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My stand is pink camo
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Congrats to your wife on a great buck! Congrats to you for getting to share an exciting and successful hunt with your best friend, wife! Great story!
I will take a good rain or a new calf whenever I can get it -Jack Ratjen
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Re: Wife's First Deer
[Re: Mountain Man]
#5428182
11/18/14 01:00 PM
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Jimbo1
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Nice story. Hoping my wife will connect on her first this year. Congrats
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Re: Wife's First Deer
[Re: Mountain Man]
#5428196
11/18/14 01:08 PM
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erniejs
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We get old too fast and wise too slow
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Re: Wife's First Deer
[Re: Mountain Man]
#5428202
11/18/14 01:11 PM
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don k
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Congratulate her on taking a very good looking Buck.
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Re: Wife's First Deer
[Re: ETXFIREMAN 1]
#5428303
11/18/14 02:07 PM
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Satch
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Awesome story and great buck!!!! Congrats to y'all
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Re: Wife's First Deer
[Re: Mountain Man]
#5428316
11/18/14 02:11 PM
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Pitchfork Predator
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Congrats to your wife on a very nice first buck.
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Re: Wife's First Deer
[Re: Mountain Man]
#5428498
11/18/14 03:15 PM
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Mr. T.
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She sounds like the type of hunter that I want in my deer camp. Those that are excited about the hunt.
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Re: Wife's First Deer
[Re: Mr. T.]
#5428697
11/18/14 04:28 PM
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EastTexasHag
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Thanks for sharing the story. Congrats to the Mrs. Mrs. Hag is still the same way----excited when a nice buck walks out. Can't say much, I am too. If I loose that I'll quit hunting.
It's the time spent in God's creation with family and friends making memories that counts.
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Re: Wife's First Deer
[Re: EastTexasHag]
#5428786
11/18/14 05:17 PM
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Texasrebel649
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Nice Buck1 My wife will come sit with me, but still can't quite get her to shoot yet. Congrats to your wife
Life is about the choices YOU make...Good or Bad!
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Re: Wife's First Deer
[Re: Mountain Man]
#5428837
11/18/14 05:43 PM
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TxYoteHunter
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Congratulations to her. Great looking buck.
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