ONE MORE BULLET - VERY SUCCESSFUL DEER HUNTING SO FAR

I don't think that this evidence is an accurate reflection of my skill.

It was only last year that I began hunting deer as a source of meat for my family. It's not that I wouldn't have gone prior to that, it's just that I didn't. Last year I did pretty well when I got started. By the end of the season I had fired three shots, and killed three deer, one doe and two bucks.

Unlike raising your own animals for meat, the actual investment is far less when it comes to things like time and feed. Wild deer may eat some of your crops, but you aren't feeding them daily like you are with animals. Other than the time and the gun, the only real investment is the license and the bullets.

BULLETS

The handful of five bullets above represent the only shots I've ever fired while deer hunting. Last year I fired three shots and successfully harvested three deer, and this year I've fired two more. I got a doe earlier in the year with one shot, and then went out this morning to try again.

If you can see the buck on my hood in the photo above, then you already know that I fired another shot and got another deer. If you saw my post last month, then you'll already understand that I don't exactly invest a lot of time in hunting.You can find that post here.

Today, I woke up at about 8 am, and then by about 8:30 made it out in the woods. I scared one the "wrong way" again, just like last time, but a few went the way I wanted them to. I went back out of the woods, snuck up ahead, and waited at a clearing. Two deer popped out and then turned, but one stopped. That was all that it took.

BULLETS & MEAT

Unlike last time, I loaded more than one bullet into the rifle, but once again I only fired once. Though people have been known to kill more than one deer with a single shot, I don't think that shooting five times and harvesting five deer is a bad statistic. However, I don't think that it is exactly an accurate representation of my hunting skills either. I may eventually miss, and that's fine with me. I just don't want to be wounding animals. To have one get shot and fall over and die immediately may not be something that everyone is comfortable with, but I am.

We like to know where our meat came from, and hunting is still much cheaper than buying it at the store. Anyway, I was very glad to have the opportunity to go hunting this morning, and also to succeed in providing some more food for my family.