December 13, 2008
After a bit of a break from blogging, I thought I would tell the story of this past weekend. Just Ryan and I went to the deer camp with the goal of helping him bag his first deer. We got up early on Saturday morning and went to a 2 man ladder stand overlooking a newly cut area of the woods. We did see three does skirting around the edge of the cut over, but they were way out of range for Ryan to shoot. I did tell Ryan to keep an eye out where we saw the does as a buck may be following them. We had a brief conversation about “what does the buck do when he catches them?” that embarrassed me quite a bit. 
After some target practice at lunch, Ryan decided he wanted to hunt with a dear friend of mine, Mr. Greg Cox. Since Ryan was not going to be with me, I went to a new ladder stand that we placed earlier this season. At 3:30 a decent 8 point buck came around visiting his scrape line. I brought up my 45-70 and fired. He didn’t go far. Ryan was so excited that I got a buck (what did we do before text messaging?!?) that he didn’t wait much longer for a deer of his own. He and Mr. Greg came to help me retrieve my buck from the woods.
All in all, it was a great day with my son and spending some restful time in the woods. We will be off again this weekend to see if Ryan has better luck.
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Nice buck. Glad to see that Ryan is enjoying hunting and a good shot. Found your Facebook page and it led me to this one. Hope ya’ll have a merry Christmas.
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