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hunting in 2020 after I hadn’t truck. I was so sad I had
Junior Division Boy
Grade: 8 Teacher: Matthew Belicek
Age: 13 School: Weleetka
Sharing The Heritage
I have been hunting for a lot of
my life. I have learned a lot
about the animals and nature
and learned to enjoy and re-
spect them. I started hunting
when I was 6 or 7. I never really
liked it but my dad liked taking
me, so I went with him. I had a
good 8-point walk in front of me
when I was little. That’s when I
started liking it because when I
saw him my blood started
pumping. I watched him for 30
minutes. He was hitting scrapes
and eating. I hadn’t had much
other experience with bucks
other than that. I went deer
went in like a year. I wanted to
go so my dad made sure I
could shoot his 25-06. I shot the
25-06 and his 30-30.
My dad told me that
there were a few deer that I
could shoot. He had 5-8 bucks
that would come out in one of
his fields. We went hunting in
the evening of opening day of
youth rifle season. Because he
had taken my sister that morn-
ing and all they saw was a
bunch of does.
We had
left the
house
and it took
30 minutes to
get to our spot,
so we left my
house at 3:00pm.
We got there and after an hour
of sitting there a doe came out
and about five minutes later a
little buck started chasing her. I
was thinking about shooting
him, but my dad told me if I
waited a bigger one would
probably come out. I waited for
another hour then when the sun
started setting, more bucks
started coming out. Finally, I
seen one I wanted to shoot so I
got ready, I pulled the trigger
and missed. We got down and
looked for forty five minutes, but
could not find the deer. We nev-
er found blood either so we
started walking back to the
missed the deer I wanted to
shoot.
We had put out cameras
for 2021 so I had a list of deer
to pick from. I had picked two of
them that I liked, a blind 9 point
and a 11-point split G2 buck. I
woke up to my dad turning on
the light. I got up to take a
shower with soap that takes
away your scent. After I got out
of the shower, I got ready to go.
We got in the truck and headed
to our spot. When we got there
we had already planned on
where we was going to sit. We
had pictures of more bucks at
the feeder than anywhere else
so that’s where we sat. all we
saw were some ok bucks but
nothing huge. Skip pass a few
weeks till regular rifle season
my dad went hunting with a
bow during that week to see if
there were any big bucks that
would show up. He seen a deer
that we called short 8. He was a
big 8 pointer but he was only 4
and a half years old so my dad
thought he needed another
year. The buck had some good
brow tines too but he had bro-
ken them off in a fight.
We didn’t really see any-
thing that morning but we kept
hunting hard. I had got up and
got ready. Finally, we get in the
tree stand.
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