| ly has had a deer lease in San Marcos, Texas since I | | | | the stand and went back to camp. Like most days in |
| was about seven years old. I loved going deer | | | | Texas, the afternoon was much warmer than the |
| hunting every winter with my step dad. I had been | | | | morning, so I took off most of my clothes and |
| hunting for five years with my mom and my step | | | | walked around in the woods for the rest of the |
| dad, and I got to see many animals during this time. | | | | afternoon. |
| However I was too young to carry a gun into the | | | | Then around four we decided to go out hunting |
| stand, so I could not wait until I turned twelve, | | | | again, but this time we chose the stand we called the |
| because then I could carry a rifle myself. The | | | | green stand. This stand was not known for |
| weekend after Thanksgiving the year I turned | | | | producing a lot of deer, but we hunted it that day |
| twelve was my first time to get to carry a rifle into | | | | anyway. We waited all afternoon and did not see |
| the stand. I was still hunting with my step dad, but | | | | anything until about thirty minutes until dusk. Then we |
| this time if we saw any deer it was my turn to take | | | | saw a doe and two yearlings come out of the |
| the shot. I will remember this day for the rest of my | | | | woods to the feeder. Not too long after that we |
| life. | | | | saw a buck come out of the woods to chase the |
| We woke up before sunrise and I put on my | | | | doe. The buck finally settled down and he gave me a |
| camouflage coveralls, my hiking boots, and my | | | | good shot. I took the shot and he quickly dropped to |
| thermal underwear, because it was a very cold | | | | the ground. We waited in the stand for a little while |
| morning. We went to the deer stand that we called | | | | to give the deer a chance to die completely, and |
| the sky stand, because it was about fifty | | | | then went down to gather my trophy. It was not a |
| feet up in the air in an old oak tree. We sat very | | | | monster buck, but it was a solid eight pointer. He sits |
| quietly and waited patiently all morning, but we did | | | | proudly on my wall to this day, and I will never |
| not see any deer. Then around noon we got out of | | | | forget the journey I took to kill my first deer. |