Thread: My older daughter and her buck

I raised one daughter by myself back when and she and I spent a lot of time in the great outdoors ketchn things , after she got her wings set and locked up she flew off and found her a prince . he is a really great guy and I love him like a son . I had no doubt about her abilities to navigate life and she waited until she had 2 degrees and good job teaching until she found her man .
anyway when she was little I taught her a lot of stuff most parents don't , I had to in my opinion due to our situation , so she did laundry and cooked when she was in 2nd grade and started with rifles when she was around that age .
she can really shoot well and used to really impress folks at the range with her 223 bull barrel rainbow stock new england firearms youth model .she could drill a bulls eye at 100 or and over and enjoyed it bunches . when she got old enough to hunt she decided she couldn't kill a deer but varmits were ok ...so one day when she was about 12 we went to a stand I had and I told her 2 gray foxes will come by us in the morning and you may take one if you want . so here we go they show up like clock work and I tell her be ready I will stop them and you will have about 1 second or so to shoot and as they pass us i gave em a mouse squeak.
well the big one jumped up on a log and posed like a post card and I whispered now ! she didn't shoot and off they went ?
she told me it was just to cute to kill ....
well she did get a turkey that day as she decided they were ugly and we didn't hunt much after that . one day when she was in college many years later the phone rang and she said dad ...can I come shoot a deer ? I said I thought you couldn't kill a deer . she said dad I am in college and I am hungry .....
so she came out with me and whacked a nice 8 point and her deer hunting began .
fast forward to yesterday ....she took this buck of my son in laws family ranch down on the Colorado river in central texas
makes me proud she does ...what a great woman she turned out to be
included is a photo of my son in laws 9 point buck he took thanksgiving day and some gobblers ...they don't hunt turkey anymore either I might mention ...just like me ....

Very nice.