Thread: My first deer hunt!

So today was a very exciting day for me today as my brother borrow a rifle so we could look for a deer we got to our area just on light a walked over a ridge in to a scrubby gully we sat down to start looking and straight away up the creek stood a red hind and yearling!!!! My brother got me to lay down he passed me the rifle and made sure I hade a steady rest and told me where to aim and said so slowly squeeze off. The rifle went bang and the yearling reared uo and rolled down the hill!!!! I was so excited! My brother then grabbed the rifle and started whistling at hind when it finally stopped he was what seemed like a long way off but my brother took a big breath squeezed off and thump the just dropped! We were both very excited only 20 minutes in! We made a way point with the etrex madjon gave me! When we got to the yearling was 80 meters and the hind was just shy of 300!!! 275m my brother gutted them and he carried the hind 400 meters to the top of the ridge he had to have lots of breaks as the deer was huge he said his knees were giving in near the end and he’s carried some big pigs but says he’s never carried something as heavy as that bitch was his word haha I carried the rifle and gear up with him then we went back for the yearling and i had a few Carry with some help of course then he carried it the rest of the way we were both very excited and proud of each other! I wish I took my phone so I could get photos when I was there but I got some when I got home. I the boots from sako we’re so comfy and the knife from gonetropo gutted them easily! I want to try my new gas cooker from tikka to cook some of the meat! Hope I got names right ! I had a lot of fun but I do feel compassion for the deer as they both have there life for food but it probably a good thing to have sympathy surly?