I guess I should start at the beginning, Jason West, my good friend and hunting buddy has had one single goal all season long, and that was for his son, Christian to get his first deer! Well as it sometimes does, it came down to the last weekend! Jason brought Christian out Friday Morning and Evening and Christian, a new hunter and excited kid, got two shots at two does, and missed both times (they were long shots, and I don't think he cared one bit, after his first miss he turned around to his Daddy and said: "This is the best hunt EVER, Daddy!" You gotta love spirit like that!) If it was about the experience, Christian already had one heck of a weekend!
Well while his Daddy (Jason West) was cooking for the entire camp in the 4th Annual CACO, Brad Savage offered to take little Christian West out for the last evening hunt of the year. Well Christian didn't know that 3 times the charm just yet. So the way I understand it, they went to 128, and three does came out. Brad asked Christian if he wanted to shoot, to which he immediately replied YES!!!!!! LOL!! So Brad helped Christian get ready and take his time, and wait for the right shot. And that is what Christian did, dropped his first doe in the green field for a hunt he will NEVER FORGET in his lifetime! (FYI: Christian you can always say that your first deer was twice the deer of your Daddy's first!!!! LOL) Brad said we can wait and get another one, to which Christian said OK, and about a minute and a half later changed his mind!!!! LOL... That boy was ready to go get his deer!!!!
Well, the CACO didn't matter anymore when the new young hunter brought in his first deer, and that is EXACTLY the way it should be. The CACO was great, but all of us cheering on Christian's experience was better. Daddy did the honors and bloodied up his son, Brad followed, and I got a streak as well, it was AWESOME and this was one proud boy! He didn't want to wash it off just so he could go home and show his Momma the next day! I love that!!!!
On a more personal note, I have to shoot a sincere Thank You to Brad Savage for being an awesome young man he is to Christian and basically all of the young kids at camp! To take this boy out and share this experience with him the right way! (And I know for a fact that Thank You goes triple from Christian's old man!) So thank You Brad, and GREAT JOB Christian for closing out the Fur & Feather 2009-2010 hunting season with a hunt and story we will all remember for years to come! (I'm going to try and upload the video to and hope it works!)
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