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Grandson’s first coues

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Grandson Ryan had a 34a youth tag this year. We missed opening morning because of his job.  Got to the Gardner canyon area around noon, set up camp and got out for the evening.  Saw one doe.  Sat morning I glassed up 2 bucks and 3 does.  The bigger buck bedded down at 300 yards at 7:30 , while the others went over a ridge.  A few minutes later a doe walked by the tree where we saw the buck was bedded.  She stared into the tree where he was, and as luck would have it, he got up and followed her up the ridge.  When the buck stopped at 350, I told him to hold 2 in. over his back.  At the shot, he staggered  a few steps, and went down.  He was super excited to say the least, but the pack out took most of that away.  4 hours after boning the deer out and packing back to camp, all was good.  That deer lived in the steepest , nastiest canyon possible…or so it seemed to this 72 year old, while huffing and puffing him out.  Beautiful country though.  The grasshoppers down there are HUGE, and they eat meat!     23EE2167-CE14-4111-BC69-6A45EA94EC3A.thumb.jpeg.a456c7c8def78387b221e5dd2a1def57.jpeg7CDBB06B-20F0-4793-B0B6-8B724A93B18C.thumb.jpeg.662971e10e9a882b0d2ab7b0ace55e24.jpegC5B87BA3-4C39-434B-8D7F-A424E3DBCE50.thumb.jpeg.0a151aca7add118d3c4355c215ef8fc0.jpeg

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Great! 72 is the new 50! Keep hunting, and taking our youth out with you . Meat eating grasshoppers? What next ? We have murder hornets and now those?

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