Started hunting only in 2017. My father in law hunted his whole life. Wife is an only child and showed no interested in it. The few times he did drag her out as a child, he found she spend the whole time reading a book. I always wanted to hunt and l was his only hope to pass on his passion so we both embraced the mentor/student role. But l was in my 30s and years as one of the best shooter on the range in the Army. I was full of confident. Told him to let me borrow any of his rifle and l got this. He said ok and handed me a 7mm rifle. So my first day hunting(if you can call it that) was me jogging around his lease with a grunt tube in my mouth. I was grunting every few minutes, saw nothing all day and l was freezing from dragging that heavy rifle around. Total failure. So started reading books and LEARNING how to do it properly, l asked him why the hell he let me go out like that my first time????? He said l had to learn and realise it's not that easy. He still tell the story to his buddies today about me scaring all the deer from the lease for days.
Well finally got my first buck. Using my saddle 10 feet above his ladder stand. With the gun he gave me to take his daughter off his hand. On lands his family owned for 100+ years.
Drove 6 hours to visit to WV. After family settled down. I got to hunt for a few hours before dark. Saddle and rifle is a very effective combo. Heart shot a nice 6pts. Now hoping l can do same with bow.
Well finally got my first buck. Using my saddle 10 feet above his ladder stand. With the gun he gave me to take his daughter off his hand. On lands his family owned for 100+ years.
Drove 6 hours to visit to WV. After family settled down. I got to hunt for a few hours before dark. Saddle and rifle is a very effective combo. Heart shot a nice 6pts. Now hoping l can do same with bow.
