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Date Posted: 11/12/07 11:11:59am
Author: Jim
Subject: Re: Youngest child shot his first hog!
In reply to: markm 's message, "Youngest child shot his first hog!" on 11/11/07 9:03:09pm

>Took my Youngest one out hunting this weekend and
>within an hour and a half he shot a pig, but as luck
>would have it we couldn't find it, it squeeled for
>what seemed 5 minutes while running thru the woods,
>but no blood trail! My boy, 10 Yrs old was smiling ear
>to ear holding his new 410 when I got to him, but he
>said it right, his aim was off, he hit it in the Butt!
>
>I was fiddling around with something in my stand when
>the shot rang out, I damn near fell out of the stand,
>I wasn't ready for it and I couldn't get the stand
>down fast enough, I was close enough but he wanted to
>sit in the ladder stand by himself, he wasn't having
>any part of me being anywhere next to him, he's been
>hunting with me since he was still in diapers, (That's
>the good thing about running dogs, kids get in on the
>hunts too), just not with a gun till now, some things
>just can't make you any happier, even though we didn't
>recover it, it was still a very good day, this happen
>Sat. about 4:30 pm, he woke me up this morning at 4 AM
>dressed, he sat in the stand in the dark for about
>30-40 minutes, I went around the corner an sat against
>a tree, thinking he wouldn't last two minutes,
>Daylight was breaking so I got in my stand, we sat
>there till 9 am, my oldest boy wouldn't last that
>long, HE's hooked!
>
>Mark

Shame you couldn't recover the pig. Did you put Bull on it's trail?
Tell him to keep it up and he'll be bringin home the meat!

Jim

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Re: Youngest child shot his first hog! -- Wayne Davis, 11/13/07 9:16:43pm

Re: Youngest child shot his first hog! -- markm, 11/16/07 11:51:18pm