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dividuals.) ing and it was my time to shine.
When I turned eleven, my It was opening season morning. I
brother, dad, grandpa, and I built dressed warm, gathered my gun,
a hunting cabin. It was small and and loaded up the ATV with my
cozy. My dad and brother spend siblings. It was about 6’ o-clock
the whole summer before col- when I climbed up my walnut
lecting pine and cedar trees to tree. The smell of wet bark was
mill logs for building materials- I soothing to the cold brisk air. I
had the best place controlling the played with the moss growing on
sawmill. After we finished the the tree for a few hours. I was
cabin, we cleared hunting areas loosing hope. I can be a little im-
that we hand selected for my sib- patient at times… I was singing
lings and I to hunt. I chose Strawberry Wine by Deana
to place my Carter in my head when I noticed
stand a flicker of white along the creek
through a bed. It was a doe and her year-
green briar
Senior Division Girl thicket with a lings! She took her time walking
towards my feeder. The doe oc-
Grade: 11 Teacher: Matthew Belicek large walnut tree casionally looked behind her so I
a
overlooking
prayed that it was my buck. It
Age: 16 School: Weleetka HS
small creek running was my buck! I was very happy
into one of the ponds. We and surprised. Immediately I be-
worked very hard with my family gan to shake in disbelief. I swear
Sharing the Heritage : to build a place and spend time the temperature dropped at least
together. The cabin was com- 10 degrees as soon as I saw
My grandpa lived in a small com- plete, I dug out ponds for wildlife him. I grabbed my 30-06 slowly
with my grandpa, and now I
and looked through my scope.
munity outside of Henryetta, Ok-
lahoma. When I was ten years could focus on getting a bigger There he was, a 12 point buck!
He strolled towards the other
deer than my brother! I woke up
old he retired and purchased 80
acres on a mountainside near a on Saturday morning to put out a deer eating corn. He went
through the green briars in my
corn feeder for all the mothers
town called Weleetka. It was a
beautiful property. It had fields and yearlings to snack on their direction. As soon as he turned
horizontally in perfect view the
nightly adventures. In addition, I
flowing with tall crisp grass, ce- put out a motion camera out deer feeder turned on, scaring
dar trees along the newly build near my deer feeder to see what them. I panicked. I knew it was
fences, and new ponds across animals were enjoying all our time. I took a deep breath and
the property. My grandfather
loves being out in nature! He is hard work! You would not be- squeezed the trigger. The gun
roared as I took my shot as my
lieve what images and animals I
nearly 80 years old and contin-
ues to maintain cattle, hunt, fish, was capturing on film. I saw deer fell right where he stood.
many yearlings, raccoons, a few
and enjoy his days of retirement.
(I suppose anyone who served in opossums, and a couple mon-
ster bucks. I was so excited.
a world war would want a place
to escape car horns and loud in- A few weeks of impatiently wait-
