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left of rifle season. On the last sun comes up and goes to bed long
day of Thanksgiving break, my after the sun has set just to go sit in
grandpa and I had gone out with the biting cold with me. I can see
low expectations when all of the how much time he invests in the
sudden a buck walked out in the land and the wildlife every year to
clearing. I lined up my sights and ensure that we have a good hunting
slowly pressed the trigger. It was a spot for years to come. One day, I
good-sized, healthy six-point buck. look forward to getting to share
Back then I didn’t care about get- these experiences with my children
ting a trophy buck. I was so excited and their children as my family has
that I had finally accomplished my done for me. I rest assured in the
goal. It was also a great teaching knowledge that one day hopefully
moment because I learned a lot many years from now when he’s
about patience and perseverance gone from this Earth, I will be able
through that hunting reminisce on these wonderful
experience. memories that I have made with
Shooting the him. For now, I will be thankful
deer
wasn’t
the end of the for every opportunity we have and
continue to make and cherish these
Senior Division Girl night. My grandpa memories of my hunting heritage.
experience for that
Grade: 12 Teacher: Bill Reeves taught me how to
field dress the deer.
Age: 17 School: El Reno
He and my dad showed
me how to harvest all of the deer
Sharing The Heritage meat from the carcass. It was im-
portant to them that I understood
shooting a deer was about so much
(Continued) more than just the hunt. I had to
know how to make use of the
My first hunting season is one whole deer. These were building
I’ll never forget. My grandpa took blocks for developing an apprecia-
me deer hunting. We would go out tion of the hunt and the harvest.
into the field on the weekends and That memory with my grandpa is
after school. For the longest time, I one that I know I will cherish for
never saw a deer. We had several my entire life.
cameras set up around the area. The memories that I make every
When we looked at the pictures, year during this four-month season
we would see bucks at the feeder. I are the kind what will last forever.
continued to go out but wouldn’t I will always remember how my
see anything in person. At this grandpa puts in so much time and
point, it was getting late in the sea- effort to take me deer hunting each
son and we had only a few days year. He wakes up way before the
