re: IST 1/4

It’s been a cool 2 days, but I respect and appreciate my dad a lot more and know why I got fussed hollered at when I was his age. He missed an absolute man last night, no emotion, first really hunt carrying a gun. Looked for blood/deer for about an hour and a half last night and again this morning, pretty sure he missed, but kicking myself for not having my own gun up to shoot the deer.

Went back this evening and he started shaking as soon as the doe came out. Put a pretty good shot on her, just a touch low. she went about 125 yards, zig zagged for about an hour and found her piled up before we found the first drop of blood. Dude was down on himself for the last 45 minutes of trailing after the night before, I was confident we’d find this one, but was trying to figure out how to break it to him without ruining it for him.

This deers insides were destroyed, zero blood, but… he caught her in both front legs. Back and up an inch and a half and I think we would have had plenty to follow. I’m still going get a box of partitions for the .243 before we give up on it.