Thread: The Great NZHS take a kid hunting comp

Originally Posted by craigc

This has been posted on another forum:

The two girls in our house are away for the week, so what else were we supposed to do...

We headed up a track on a local forestry/bush block after a man sized dinner of four sausages each, me and my 6 year old son James followed by the Vizsla Eva.

We had not been going too far when I saw the flick of an ear through the binos and identified a sleeping hind then another hind lower down on a grass clearing under some pines. I ranged them at 220 yards, however it would have been a difficult shot up hill shot with only the heads and necks really showing.
We walked a bit further up the track and glassed the clearing again, at 280 yards, but could not see them, at that stage I received some advice on when I should have shot the deer!
We pushed on further, slightly above the clearing and could see one of the deer quite clearly, back at a range of 200 yards.

Whist I took this photo I received some more solid advice on the best time to shoot a deer!
I lay the Remington 600 Mohawk over my back pack and sent a .243 SST on the way. I could tell by the sound and the reaction that she was hit.
We scooted over to the clearing where there was masses of blood and James made a good job or tracking it with help form Eva. 60m or so later Eva found the hind stone dead with a very big entrance hole and no exit hole. The blood trail was probably one of the heaviest I have ever seen.
We took some photos.

Then I told James I'd better butcher it for the carry back to the truck.
Pass me the knife..!!!

This was the young fullas first successful hunt with me and he didn't get to bed to ten to ten; if you know his mum don't tell her!!

Mint trip there the young fella would have loved every minute an even got the hands on in there

He will remember that for time to come, untill next time haha