My First Day Big Game Hunting

By Becky C.

This is a story about my first day big game hunting with a Thompson Center Firehawk Bantam  on youth day November 5, 2000.Here is my story I hope you like it. Love Becky Chapman

One day in November  when I was 9 years old, I went out hunting with my dad.  I got up at four  o'clock in the morning and got ready for a long day of hunting.  I got all of my stuff on and then rode in my dads truck up to were we were going hunting.  When we got there my Dad set up a tent so I could stay warm and not have to  walk all day.  I got in the tent with my dad and  started looking for deer.  An hour had went by and I hadn't seen a deer yet, so I tried my deer call.  But ,that didn't help any.  So, before I knew it it was lunch time.  I went home with my dad and got some sandwiches to eat and then went  back to the tent in  the woods.  I thought that instead of sitting in the tent that my Dad and I could walk around looking for deer.  So, we walked for a little while and then came to this little ledge.   I looked down the ledge and  saw another kid out hunting with a dad too.   They didn't see me and my dad.  I thought that me and my dad should go back to the tent, so we did.  By then it was 3:30.   I  still wanted to stay out a little longer to hunt.  So we stayed and looked for deer and called for deer.  But, nothing came our way.  Around 4:45 we heard something coming our way, it sounded like it could be a deer.  It probably was but, the deer would not come out so we could see it.  So, we went home empty handed.  But with a great memory of when her dad took her out hunting.