Chris McDonald

Connor and I started our outdoorsman journey about 7 years ago. I never went hunting as a child or an adult until Connor began to show some interest. I shot my first deer with him 3 years ago and I got to be with him when he shot his first.

Connor disciplined himself from age five to shoot his BB gun with
sights and then a scope, all in preparation for that one great shot.
He practiced in the garage when it was to cold to go outside and in the heat of the summer outside.

Finally this was Connor’s day, another father from church took us to a place he knew deer where plentiful all for the sole purpose of rewarding Connor for his faithful practice.

After spending two hours in a tree stand we got down and went back to the barn to plan our next move. Disappointed Connor caught some movement across a field. It was a three doe’s facing our direction. We quickly got him positioned on some hay and talked him through the shot. BAM!!!!

He made the shot with a 7mm rifle that he had only shot two times the day before but all of his 5 years of hard work was blessed in a split second.

He nailed it from 240 yards right in the neck where we told him to aim.

He could not speak for almost 15 minuets and then he started crying. (so did I and the other dad but we all agreed not to tell our buddies)

Connor and his brother skinned and cleaned this deer by them selves and feed their family several nights. That’s real self-esteem not the feminist junk the world offers young men today.

In the photo of the hay barn in the distance is where Connor took his now famous shot and I am standing where the deer is. WOW!!! What a shot son!!!!

I am so proud of my boys and the men they are becoming.
Dads get out there and enjoy life with your kids. We have learned trapping skills, skinning, tanning skin, knife making, archery, and all kind of mountain man stuff together and its a blast.

PS
Yes it was a small deer.
This deer’s leg was broke and he was limping, the property owner made
the decision to let Connor kill him so he would not continue to suffer.