Got three Thursday with the .54 muzzleloader. 2 does ran by me, the first one went down and about 15 minutes later her friend came back to check on her and joined in the fun. In the evening, I took my 8yo nephew out with me. He did great and even experienced his first gray squirrel alarm. The little guy ran across 6 trees to see what was sitting down in his woods and then let us know he wasn't happy. The little buck was the third taken, the two does were hanging by this time. Nephew enjoyed hmiself, stayed still, and didnt complain about the cold and wet. After the muzzleloader smoke cleared, he was still shaking like a leaf, and asked if we could go again in the morning. He's hooked!
Pardon my face camo, my "makeup artists" have a combined 7 years of age and did a bit of playing . Nephew was afraid he'd spook the deer without his paint on, so we had to go back to the house to grab it and get him all done up too. 150 pounds of meat in the freezer. The flank steaks will go to jerkey, and the hearts made excellent anticucho (recipe from this site) over brown rice.
