The 2008-2009 deer hunting season (although I didn’t do too much – see earlier duck hunting post) brought the opportunity to finally take Andrew deer hunting. I took him twice. While we had no success, these outings were truely special.
I had decided to take him out for an afternoon hunt and the plan was to arrive at the shooting house (overlooking a green field) an hour and a half or so before dark. We parked the truck and headed out for the short walk to the shooting house. With my backpack in tow – loaded with snacks, Capri-suns, and his Leap Frog game, we were off. I was able to point out several deer tracks on the dirt road. You would have thought that he had acutally SEEN a deer. He was so excited over those deer tracks. We sat in the shooting house until dark without seeing the first deer (oh well). On the way out, he found a stick that was apparently very intresting to him. So interesting, in fact, that this stick is still in my garage today.
A few deer tracks and a stick….having fun in the outdoors and success in the hunting field really can be this simple. Sometimes it takes a four year old to remind me of these things.
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