My 10 year old daughter and I set up about 50 yards from where 6 trails blended into one . About 1/2 hour later 2 does and fawns showed up 300 yards below us . After about an hour of laying down and getting back up numerous times they were within 50 yards . The whole way in Kaylee kept saying I could kill her from here every 50 yards or so but I think they will come closer so I'm going to wait . When they got to 50 she let the 222 eat . The doe leaped forward and I told her to jack another shell in and she said "But Daddy I shot her right where you told me to she's not going anywhere" . Sure enough the doe piles up in 40 feet . I choke up ! Kaylee gets to the deer first and it's doing the leg death twitch thing so she goes around in front of the deer and touch's it's eye with the gun barrel to see if it's still alive , something I did not teach her to do . I choke up ! Thank you South Dakota mentored program !
So not only getting her 1st deer earning her Scarlett letter she "broke" her 1st heart . I choke up !
There was a perfectly white quartz rock laying by her deer's nose when she got to it and I said "there you have the perfect souvenir for your 1st deer" . She proceeded to cover it with blood from the doe and said " Now I have the perfect souvenir Daddy " ! I choke up .
Big brother had to get in on the action as well .
And now I am the father of The Heart "Break" kids ! I choke up ! Thank you South Dakota youth program !
As we are just a few miles cross country from the Cosmos Mystery area I have to wonder if there really isn't something to this whole mystery thing after seeing this tree . Wasn't broke off or uprooted but been growing this way for years .
All and all the best Black Hills hunting trip so far in 46 years !! Should have taken more pics as the Hills were in their splendor for sure .
Spearfish Canyon
So not only getting her 1st deer earning her Scarlett letter she "broke" her 1st heart . I choke up !
There was a perfectly white quartz rock laying by her deer's nose when she got to it and I said "there you have the perfect souvenir for your 1st deer" . She proceeded to cover it with blood from the doe and said " Now I have the perfect souvenir Daddy " ! I choke up .
Big brother had to get in on the action as well .
And now I am the father of The Heart "Break" kids ! I choke up ! Thank you South Dakota youth program !
As we are just a few miles cross country from the Cosmos Mystery area I have to wonder if there really isn't something to this whole mystery thing after seeing this tree . Wasn't broke off or uprooted but been growing this way for years .
All and all the best Black Hills hunting trip so far in 46 years !! Should have taken more pics as the Hills were in their splendor for sure .
Spearfish Canyon
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