My son moved back to Oregon from Idaho but didn't have time to establish residence.
I found out that I could sign my 9 year old grandson up for the mentore program.
He had only shot 22 rimfire before so we took him to the range to shot my Sako 243.
He could average 1 inch groups off the sandbags out to 80 yards.
Opening morning we walked a gated road and glassed draws as the fog lifted.
We got to the last unit and some other hunters had walked up another ridge and was on the last unit, so I explained to Jacobe (my grandson) that the last unit was theirs to hunt
and we would glass the units back down the hill.
He wanted to know why we were going so slow since we already looked at the units. I explained that as the sun came up that deer that were laying down in the shade would get up to move or as the sun got brighter the deer wouls show up better.
We stopped to glass a north slop and i spotted a buck laying down.
He looks to be a 3x3.
We located a stump to set up on and got Jacob set on the gun. With a little help we got the scope on him and I ranged the buck at 150 yards. I told him to hold the crosshairs right on his front sholder and when he was steady take the gun off of safe and squezze the trigger.
He said he was ready and bang the gun goes off and i hear the bullet hit.
The deer stands and walks about 50 yards and falls over and no more movement.
We get to the deer and he is a 3x4 a small 4th point on his left antler.
We take pictures and Jacob helps skin and quarter and we pack out a mile and a
quarter.
I found out that I could sign my 9 year old grandson up for the mentore program.
He had only shot 22 rimfire before so we took him to the range to shot my Sako 243.
He could average 1 inch groups off the sandbags out to 80 yards.
Opening morning we walked a gated road and glassed draws as the fog lifted.
We got to the last unit and some other hunters had walked up another ridge and was on the last unit, so I explained to Jacobe (my grandson) that the last unit was theirs to hunt
and we would glass the units back down the hill.
He wanted to know why we were going so slow since we already looked at the units. I explained that as the sun came up that deer that were laying down in the shade would get up to move or as the sun got brighter the deer wouls show up better.
We stopped to glass a north slop and i spotted a buck laying down.
He looks to be a 3x3.
We located a stump to set up on and got Jacob set on the gun. With a little help we got the scope on him and I ranged the buck at 150 yards. I told him to hold the crosshairs right on his front sholder and when he was steady take the gun off of safe and squezze the trigger.
He said he was ready and bang the gun goes off and i hear the bullet hit.
The deer stands and walks about 50 yards and falls over and no more movement.
We get to the deer and he is a 3x4 a small 4th point on his left antler.
We take pictures and Jacob helps skin and quarter and we pack out a mile and a
quarter.
