We went to my Uncle Brian’s house to see them for a family get together. I asked my cousin, Derek, if he could take me hunting soon. He said that when hunting season comes and when It’s youth hunting that he will take me. I said ok and a month later I called him when hunting season started. I said are you still taking me hunting and he said yeah. He said he would pick me up halfway to his house in a week. My mom and I woke up at 4:30am to leave, and my cousin left at 4am so he beat us to the halfway point. I was really excited to spend the next several days with Derek on this hunting trip and I hoped we would get a deer.
When we got there we both eat and I unpack. when we go there it was about 4:45am we slept till 5:45am and got ready the head out to hunt. We went into the woods that Is right behind their house. My cousin and his dad made a tree house to hunt in we sat in front it on the ground. We didn’t see thing it was 7am when we went in the tree stand. It was a bit warmer in the tree stand. After an hour or so we saw 2 bucks that started to come in. I had my gun out the window for 3 min and after that they walk away, I was really hoping that i would get one. We sat and wait for a long time by the time it was 9am so we left.
We walk down by the creek and waited for 10 min and didn’t hear or see anything. We walk along the tree lines and didn’t see anything so we went back to his house and got two 22 guns to shoot squirrels. We went to his other tree stand to shoot squirrels and we got one I didn’t shoot it that time. We got one squirrel that day. After we got that one we went to the house to clean it and get it I got to help a bit it was my first time gutting a squirrel. That night we went to bed early because we were going to get up at 5am. That day we got up and got ready to head out first we pick one of his buddies up to go with us.
I didn’t know him, but he seems cool. We went to his grandpa farm and we hunt in his field that’s where my cousin and got most of there deers. We went pushing that is an illegal so don’t tell the DNR, but anyway my cousin friend went in the woods while my cousin and I sat in the field I had a muzzle loader and he had a shotgun. A big doe came out and it was too fa shoot it my cousin said that was the biggest doe he have ever shot. I was hoping I would get that one there was like 4 that came out. We walk to the other side of the woods that we behind us.
My cousin walk in this time he saw the big doe he tried to get a shot at it but it run. When we got done at 1pm we went mudding and that was really fun. We got something to eat, it was hard to see out the front window it was so muddy. The next day was cold out we didn’t go deer hunting that day we went rabbit and squirrel hunting with shotguns. I was using a 410 and my cousin was using a 12 gauge his friend’s was using a 20 gauge. We went to his friend house to hunt there was a little strip of woods that has a lot of rabbits. We saw a lot of rabbits my cousin got one and his friend got one.
We went back up to his friend’s house to get more ammo and get something to drink. We to some farm I don’t know who it was we walk a lot it was a big woods, I got one rabbit after 3 hours at the farm we went to my cousin house. When we got the house we clean the rabbits. My cousin cleans them all and I got to keep them all we put them in a baggie and put them in the freezer and some deer meat. We both ate some deer meat and it was good. I stayed the night again because it was later we left in the morning, both of us meet at the same place. I had a really good time and when i got home, I made some deer jerky it was really good.