Matthew Page 2 - the ever continuing father and youth hunts

Thank you to Matthew, daughter and sons for practicing quality deer management on their self guided hunts.
Hello John and Jon...here are a few photos from our youth deer weekend. My oldest had decided he was only going to shoot a doe or a buck if it was bigger than last year's. He ended up with a nice doe Sunday morning. My youngest just wanted to tag a deer. He ended up with a small racked 8 - his first racked buck. We didn't see many deer Saturday...only 4...but three were bucks including one nice racked buck that I only glimpsed for a couple of seconds. Neither of the two kids with me saw him though.
 

We saw plenty of deer Sunday...the weather turned out overcast with a light drizzle and the wind finally settled down some...it seemed to have them moving about better that morning. My two youngest and I were hunting from a natural ground blind and saw 10 deer Sunday morning, 6 of which were bucks...no big ones though. My youngest made a nice shot at about 60 yards after the buck finished working a scrape along the field edge and, along with a small racked 6, wandered out into the field. We had numerous close encounters with turkeys too. One flock worked it's way down the edge of the corn field we were hunting Saturday evening and passed less then 20 feet behind us going to roost. Nice weekend.

I picked out photos that showed the whole crew with each deer. I also picked out one photo of my kids goofing off (I'm certain it will embarrass them) only because I think it shows why and how I choose the properties I do for hunting...the view. It helps that the properties have plenty of game, but if all I had was a great view, I'd be content. Talk to you guys later.

Matt

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