so i head out for a cold evening hunt on stand by 1pm. see a few does at distance and a button buck thats moving in and out of the thicket(making a whole lotta noise). i see him walk in and bed behind me at 2:45 or so. about 45 mins later i swear i hear a voice calling DAD! nah i have to be hearing things. again DAD! now i start to look in the area down the side of the mountain on the otherside of the thicket. lookin lookin, i see movement, i look towards the little button buck now standing his ears zeroing in on the voice. i look in that direction he's faceing and sure enough a kid moving threw the bottom of the thicket in camo. i start looking for an adult anywhere around that area. Nothing so i sound off witha hey there, kid looks in my direction and starts coming, still doesn't see me in my stand looking in the binos he's been crying. so i know now the kid is lost...... unhook stand and drop bow down fire pole down to the ground. hey kid i say you ok i make my way to an 8 to 9 yearold boy. very cold and upset he tells me his father shot a deer told him to waite there and he would be back. i'm thinking you have to be kidding me no way! i tell him he's gonna be ok and we'll get him to his family. give him my jacket some hot tea and a kudos bar. do you have a phone number we can call i ask, thank god he knows his phone #. i call end up getting mom who is outta her mind ask her to call the father. he calls me back frantic he's still in the woods with a friend looking for his son. hey partner ur son he's ok i tell him, tell him where i'm parked. find out that he doesn't know the area i'm in. so i tell him we'll meet at WALMART (anyone can find a WALMART) down and out of the woods to the truck. pack up little man and my stuff and off to walmart. man i'll tell ya i when i pulled up i see the father and his buddie standing there. we get out and the dad grabs his kid, man huge hug. where did you go he tells his son i waited for you his boy says and i figured i would help drag ur deer. well in dragging the deer this little man got himself lost. he intoduces himself to me and thanks me with a shake of the hand and a hug. i can't thank you enough he says, i tell him it wasn't me that found ur son it was a cleaver little button bucks ears. if it wasn't for the little button i may never have seen ur son. he says well there's now way i could pay you back again. sure there is i sayto him NEVER EVER THINK FOR ANY REASON IT IS OK TO LEAVE A YOUNGSTER IN THE WOODS ALONE FOR ANY AMOUNT OF TIME! another shake from dad and i tell little chris his son always keep dad in your sight at all times when your in the woods, a little hand shake and we all go off in different directions.
that was my afternoon in the woods.
thing is i wasn't even going to hunt that spot changed my mind at the last second. strange the way things work out.
that was my afternoon in the woods.
thing is i wasn't even going to hunt that spot changed my mind at the last second. strange the way things work out.
No trophy better than the one you just got.
