Today was the first day of the 2 day youth deer season. Olivia and Boyd (my two youngest at 15 and 13, respectively) both wanted to hunt, so we planned an evening hunt after we did some practice shooting during mid-day. We were running late, so deer were already in the hay field when we arrived. We put a sneak on them and got lucky when they moved our way. Boyd killed the first buck at 70 yards then two more bucks stopped after all the does cleared the field, giving Olivia a 100 yard shot. Boyd's ran 75 yards and toppled and Olivia's colapsed on the spot. Olivia's is her first deer, Boyd's is his third deer and first buck. No motorized vehicles on this Block Management, so we had to drag them for an hour and a half. Photos could have been better if we'd had more light.
It was getting dark fast since these deer were shot 15 to 20 minutes before dark. It was a little too dark to hand hold my camera without a flash and the flash made it look completely dark around them while overexposing them.
I wish I'd got some individual photos with my camera instead of my phone. It was getting too dark for my phone and I was in such a rush knowing it was getting dark and we had to drag two deer a fairly long way over a hill that I didn't realize that I'd not taken individula photos with my camera.
I have one of Olvia with a big smile in this same shot, but it's so blurry it looks like two guns laying on the deer.
