2025 Hunting Season

[NYDAN]

Great story. Congratulations to your daughter and her mentor

 

[RL338]

Congrats to your daughter , she’s well motivated.

 

[Slimfinn]

Thats awesome! Congrats to her

 

[sako2]

2025 Season is off to a great start. There was a special youth, doe season in the middle of archery here. I took my daughter out in hopes of getting her first deer, and luckily for us it was a great success!! At 8 years old she got her first deer and her Dad is super proud!!

This one is deeper than she just got her first deer. First off, 118 yards, right through the heart. Deer made it roughly 15 yards and that’s because it fell about 5 yards down the hill next to the food plot.

Adding to the coolness…
She shot it with a gun she bought herself. Bergara Stoke. She started making wingbone turkey calls about this time last year. She gets turkey bones, cleans them, cuts them, glues them together and tunes the end piece, then colors them with alcohol ink. Her Mom, Gram, or I will epoxy them and she sells them online. She got enough request that we started a company for her, Mad Dog’s Turkey Calls. She placed third in a turkey calling competition using one of her own calls against adults at an outdoor show, the local gun shop here sells her calls in their store and PA Boyz ran them this March too. Her local NWTF invited her as an honorary member for 2025 with a free one year membership and she was able to showcase at their annual dinner. We started a savings for her from the money she has made selling these calls to hold for better occasions that just frilly stuff (what does an 8 year old need with that money). When she asked me if she could buy her own rifle with it.. well yes haha. Mom and Dad got everything else for it and all the reloading equipment/supplies. I was just proud of her for working and earning the money to buy the rifle herself.View attachment 27760

The next cool part, she shot it with one of her own reloads that she did herself. Nosler case, WLR primer, 41g Varget, 140g TTSX, loaded for a 7mm-08.

The final icing on the cake, she made us dinner using meat she provided for the family. Velvets Mac and Cheese and Fried blackstrap with kool aid to drink haha. Didn’t matter to me, she put it together and I was happy to sit at the table and pray thanks to the good lord for all that transpired to be sitting there with that meal!

She reloads with me, she practices shooting with me, she’s always in the field scouting, planting, setting camera, working on stands, she cleans guns with me.. she has earned it and working for it all makes it that much sweeter.

TANSTAFL.. There aint no such thing as a free lunch

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That's just awesome. Congrats to your daughter. And a hard worker.

 

[GregoryB.]

Congrats to the young Hunter. That sounds like a good meal. Now I have a craving for Grape Koolaide.

 

[DrMike]

What an encouragement to read first thing in the morning! Congratulations to your family. Well grounded, for sure.

 

[Ralt71]

I very much appreciate all the positive responses. I’m going to show her when she get’s home, she will really enjoy that too!

 

[Hunter26]

Damn I was a bum at 8 years old apparently. On a serious note, that's awesome and she did an incredible job all around!

 

[Blkram]

Congrats to the little huntress!
All that work she has done has paid off big time! (And it shows)
Awesome to see someone investing this amount of time and guidance into their kids, providing them with knowledge and skills that will last a lifetime, not to mention great memories and shared meals and adventures!

 

[Ralt71]

Congrats to the little huntress!
All that work she has done has paid off big time! (And it shows)
Awesome to see someone investing this amount of time and guidance into their kids, providing them with knowledge and skills that will last a lifetime, not to mention great memories and shared meals and adventures!

We spend quality time together and I soak it up haha. I go to my brother’s house and their kids stay in their bedrooms on game boxes .. they don’t even come down to say hi to us unless they are told to come down and it doesn’t take long.. they are back in their rooms. Kind of wild to me haha

 

[AFG270]

Wow! Congratulations Ralt71, to your daughter, your family and you. Your wife and you definitely have every reason to be proud.

 

[JD338]

My wife Sue filled her second tag 11/7 on a big 8 pt. She used her Ravin R26X and the Sevr Titanium Hybrid 2.0 broadhead to take him at 50 yards.

JD338

 

[Hunter26]

Awesome buck, y'all are having a great season.

 

[Ralt71]

That’s a great buck, congratulations to her!!

 

[sako2]

That Sue is a killing machine. Congrats.

 

[NYDAN]

Congratulations to Sue. Boy, you guys are having a great year. All of your hard work and dedication to Quality Deer Management is paying off.

 

[JD338]

My daughter Danielle connected on a beautiful 8 pt 11/10. She was using my Ravin R29X and the Sevr Titanium Hybrid 2.0 broadhead. She made a perfect 51 yard shot. I was sitting with her and had a front row seat. It was an incredible experience for both of us.
Looks like she will be getting a Ravin...

JD338

 

[NYDAN]

Congratulations to Danielle. That is a great buck. I will repeat what I wrote above: your QDM program is really working. Those 50 yard shots you guys are making are pretty impressive also.

 

[Ralt71]

My daughter Danielle connected on a beautiful 8 pt 11/10. She was using my Ravin R29X and the Sevr Titanium Hybrid 2.0 broadhead. She made a perfect 51 yard shot. I was sitting with her and had a front row seat. It was an incredible experience for both of us.
Looks like she will be getting a Ravin...

JD338

Fantastic buck! You guys are in a good area.

We switched over from Raven to Ten Point for my wife a couple years back. Hard to say one over the other. It’s crazy what those crossbows can do compared to my regular ol bow haha

 

[DrMike]

Jim, your ladies are making you proud. Those are a couple of grand bucks that'll do anyone proud. Congratulations to Sue and to Danielle.