

The last few years all his wisdom aka me bothering him with 100 questions all the time brought me to a 2017 muzzleloader hunt on his property. I went ahead and tagged him because he was found and ended up shooting a doe during gun week. He was found a week later 100 yards from the shot. The next morning i looked and bubbly blood everywhere but it cross the river which was up pretty high so i lost him. 45 min we walk up on it and it stands up and bolts. Hunting with sqack one evening i had a nice 8pt walking across the field as i was walking out and i sat down and got a quartering away shot and the deer dropped 50 yards away. I would see deer each time i hunted which really helped with the confidence. He took me under his wing and I ended up knocking on a few doors with him and gained private land access. I met Sqack killer from here and locally and a great friendship started.

It took me a few more years until i had another crack at a deer.

I figured we weren't sure who killed it so let him have it. I had a scope malfunction and gut shot a buck and yelled for my buddy 100yards away to shoot it and he froze so i racked another one and we shot at the same time. Ive been at this 15/16yrs and it took me about 11 of those to drop my first deer in WNF.
