October 26

Wild Animals

Picture courtesy of Anders Thompson

Picture courtesy of Anders Thompson.  This is me holding a snake. Me and my cousins were outside, and we found a snake. My cousin tried to pick it up, but it bit him then slithered away. Later we found this snake, i put a stick on it and picked it up. When we were done we let it go.

 

Picture courtesy of my dad (Brian Gustafson)

Picture courtesy of my dad (Brian Gustafson). Me and my dad sat out in a stand for 2 days, morning and afternoon. And on the last night of the youth hunt I was sitting on the edge of a field. It was 5 minutes until dark, and I thought I would have to wait until regular season to shoot a deer, but I saw something in the distance. 3 deer walking straight to us. I got my gun set up early so they wouldn’t see me. I got set up, and took the shot on the closest deer (approximately 125 yards). I shot it right behind the front shoulder. It dropped, got up and ran into the woods.  We waited 5 minutes then climbed down and checked for blood. We didnt see much, but we saw the direction. 20 minutes later we found it 10 yards from the edge of the woods.

October 6

Rabbit Hunting

 

Backyard Bunny

Since I have started rabbit hunting I have shot four. My first one was off Toff trail I had shot with a six shot shell. My second one my grandpa’s buddy had seen it so I got out of the truck I put in a four shot shell. My third was just a messy shot so I am not going to talk about it. My last one was a clean kill I shot it with a pellet gun.  I stand out from other people because I hunt a lot of rabbits.

September 27

My First Deer Kill!

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I shot my first deer in 2015, staring in the morning my dad and I rode my Uncle Ray’s four-wheeler. We drove it to my Uncle Ted’s stand which we call The Power Line. A couple of hours later a few fawns came running out, I didn’t shoot any of them because I was waiting for a buck to come out but none came out. Then when it was getting really late around 7:30/8:00 my dad and I were about to leave but then we saw a doe come out. I waited for it to stop and stay still and when it did I toke my shot to kill the deer, it ran awhile then we found the deer. It was dead, I ended up shooting it in the lungs. We brought it back to are farm and my dad and my two uncles gutted the deer that night.

September 25

HUNTING IS SOON

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Hi as you guessed by the title this is about hunting mainly partridge and grouse but youth season for deer hunting (rifle) opens up on m.e.a. weekend which is the 19th and the 20th of October,which the 20th is my birthday and that will be fun to go hunting on my birthday. when I go partridge hunting I use my 20 gauge shotgun, it is a nice Remington with a gold trigger and the trigger guard is gold to, it is a really nice shotgun that my grandpa got for me on my 12 birthday  last year.I am so excited for hunting, last year I got four partridge and one spruce hen it is going to be so fun, I hope I get some partridge and a deer, last year I didn’t get one but I saw a lot but my dad told me not to shoot them until the last weekend and of course we didn’t see a thing for the whole rest of the weekend and after that I was mad,  I don’t know if they were stupid or smart because they beded right in front of the stand and my dad told me to wait for a bigger one, it was like it was taunting me, it was annoying, well that’s all for now bye.

September 25

Hunting Grouse

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Grouse are sort of a stupid bird you could be walking and almost step on them. Last weekend I shot one but it ran onto privet land and last year I only shot one. I remember that I shot a grouse and when I bent down to get it fly right up. The bird only weighs about half a pound but sometimes they can weigh two pounds. The best shot is six to four shot. The bird mostly eats leaf,grass,bugs,and once they are done feeding they will collect rocks for there gizzard to grind down there food.The grouse is a very good bird the best way to cook it is to cut it up and put taters and add butter.If you get a lot of grouse you could make a stew out of it. Grouse may be stupid but they are fun to hunt.