So id been scheming for some time and after recent success ,Thought iv got to take the kids for a hunt id tried a few times with piggy in the middle ( 7yo) but she wasn't keen today, probably my fault as its so easy to forget how small they are & even things like long grass can be very tiring on little legs let alone thistles in the way !! so the littlest was bouncing up & down il come take me , she had been at me for a long time to take her but I always say the same thing ..when your bigger you can come so yesterday was the day not that she had gotten much bigger not even 5 yet so I had to put my thinking cap on & plan where could we could go , plan hatched we were off with her chattering away 40 odd min,s latter the chatter still going I said now remember when we get to our spot we need to be reeeally quite so we practised our whispering & don't slam the door !! .So we parked the truck up & starked walking along an old track...dad she said your being noisy don't walk on the stones walk on the grass, ok , dad dad look , shoooosh I said she replied deer prints we carried on , dad I can smell deer ok we carried on , dad look deer blood (red moss on the rocks) we carried on dad look sheep poo , dad whats this dirt , pig rooting , dad can you shoot a pig I said I would shoot what ever jumped infront of us , in the end she was a wee trooper we walked for around 3 k,s & not once did she complain :) .It was a cracker afternoon warm , breeze in our face the sun had gone & I was surprised we hadn't seen anything as there was a bit of sign around , I said to the girl see up there if we get to the top & there's no deer we will go back to the truck so we marched on up a low rise in the far corner following a worn game trail quietly stalking stopping & looking as its quite scrubby when we got to the top we stood there for a bit just looking , admiring the view we had just turned around to head back when we heard a crash Woh deer rite below us in a hidden gut ...4 of them 30 meters away they stopped looking over at us I lined up on one, crack wumph , the girl got a wee fright but the smile said it all dad dad deer & you gave me a fright ..did you shoot it , yep but , it wasn't there so I left her on the spot & that was fine I kept talking to her as I pushed further away in the scrub there was no blood no nothing but I distinctly remembered a loud noise from one of the deer in the area I was in & bingo she hadn't gone far maybe 30 meters a nice fat hind I couldn't believe my luck first hunt for the girl & we score , surprisingly the trip home was much much quitter the wee tacker was curled up on the front seat sound asleep the whole way home :D .
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