youth ripley hunt

[dakids]

Friday morning Kid#1 and myself are headed to camp Ripley for our second time.  Last year she killed her first deer with a bow.  My goal is to help her learn more about hunting deer.  She knows that wind is the most important thing.  With the dry conditions my guess is that water will also be of importance as well as food.  I will be taking pics and share them when we get back.  Her goal is to first make a clean, quick kill and then have it be a bigger buck than last years.

[lentz]

Last weekend they weren't on acorns but the squirrels still were coler weather I think the priority will be food and they will be moving a little later 9-10 will be probobly better than first 45

[wildlifeminnesota]

I think your water plan maybe out of the ? as snow is moving in   

[dakids]

We had a great weekend together. No arrows were released but it was great father daughter time. Found several great spots and she wanted to hunt sat morning in a very thick bottle neck. We had a deer move through while it was still to dark to see the shooting lanes clearly enough to avoid branches. We had a buck run through behind us and apear to crash 60 yards away on the trail we came in on. About an hour later we hear and see 2 hunter on the deers path and moving very slowly. Yep, they were tracking. We climb down to help and by the time we get to them they were standing over his buck.  We helped them drag the deer out of the rasberrie patch and find a nice backdrop for pics. Put tongue back in the mouth clean bup the blood and take pictures. After the pics were done it was time to gut his first deer. Deer was quartering away hard. Rage 2 blade caught guts liver ,nick lung and heart and just pop a hole out the rib cage. The arrow was still 60% still in the deer. It made it 200 yard witch surprised me.   They noticed sierra lookeold when we first met them so they offered us their heated ground blind to hunt in. She turned them down and said thank you but she wanted to get her buck from a tree that she picked out.  We pulled our stand and moved to a protected ridge were the wind was consistant and blowing tawords the pond we were sitting by. Didn't see anything that night but had high hopes for the next morning. The morning stated slowly but after a couple of hours we had 2 does and their fawns feed through out of range.  After they faded into the woods we were left in a tree waiting for a buck to follow them but he never appeared. We climbed down andheaded home because she had a lot of homework to do.

Even though we didn't get a deer I learned a lot about how a 15 year old girls mind works. One thing she did say is that the sargent that was part of the oriantation was DREAMY until he started to talk.  She is growing up so fast right before my eyes. Hopefully her mother and I have done a good enough job. She is becoming a woman that I am very proud of.   I will post pics tonight when I get home