If You Are Not From The South You May Not Understand!
Hannah Got Her First Deer!
An afternoon hunt on Thanksgiving will never be forgotten in the Stone family! Hannah and I were in the stand for about an hour when two nice does came into the field! After getting her nerves and shakes under control...Hannah decided on the biggest doe about 75-80 yards out. She takes the shot...and misses! The two deer run into the woods...one makes the error of stopping and looked back. I reload Hannah's gun (with her very sternly whispering..."give me the freaking gun"), she takes a deep breath, aims and cuts the doe for a flip!!! Let the giggling begin! She and I are hugging and squealing like silly girls! I don't know who is more excited her or her very proud Mommy!!! Then the tears started flowing...she was crying and my heart sank. What I think are remorse tears she explains "are you crazy these are happy tears" and the giggles start again!
Since Daddy was hunting a long way away, we called him to come and help us. And I have to share, Chris was running so fast in his excitement he fell, :) ! We all walk to the wood line and there is no deer, no blood, nothing. My heart sinks, we know we saw the deer fall - where is she...in our giggling fit we did not see her get back up? Trying to track a deer that didn't leave us a trail was beginning to try on our patience. We were hunting close to Uncle Benny and Auntie Anne's home and thankfully their lab, Bella, was curious of all the commotion. As soon as she made it to us, Bubba tells Bella to find the deer...in less than two minutes, Bella ran straight to Hannah's doe about 70 yards in the woods! Let the celebrations start!!! Hannah was such a brave hunter, she let Daddy "bloody" her face. A tradition of smearing blood on the face. Of course, as soon as a few pictures were taken, Auntie Anne was helping her clean her face. Chris and I are so proud for her...heck I was 18 when I shot my first deer and Chris was 15 and now Hannah at age of 11, wow! Next in line is for Brunson, he is 8, and we can't wait!
