Wish him luck!

[Pilchard]

Friday night marked the beginning of my favorite week of the year. My Grandfather arrived from Alabama and I drove an hour east of home to get to our Air B&B for the week.

Saturday morning arrived with decent weather. I put him in a great spot but he only saw a doe and a fawn. I saw 5 coyotes but could only kill one of them around 9am. At 10 I got bored and tried rattling. Shortly after calling I had a decent deer sneak in from behind me and I shot him left handed at 35 yds.

I couldn't hunt Saturday evening because of a prior commitment and his phone died so he climbed down at prime time because he was afraid he couldn't call for help.

Sunday morning we got settled in and mid morning I heard his gun go off. I couldn't handle the suspense and climbed down after shooting another coyote. It turns out he missed a big 8 pointer.

Sunday evening evening was not great. He saw a nice buck at 200yds and I saw a doe and killed a 3rd yote.

Monday morning came and I heard his gun go off twice around 7am. He had shot a small 8pt in the neck and had to put a finishing shot on the deer. Success!

Today brought many deer sightings including 4 mature bucks between the hunters at the farm but no shots were fired.

At dinner tonight my granddad said he thinks tomorrow morning will be the last time he climbs in a ladder stand. He's getting too old and said next year he would return to be the camp chef.

So tomorrow morning he's sitting in a stand that had a very big deer in front of it this morning. I plan to hunt just a short distance away but will be out of the action. I just want to be close enough to hear his gun go boom for the last time.

So, if you don't mind, wish my Grandpa, Jack good luck tomorrow morning!

Current kill tally:

- 3 yotes
- 2 bucks
- a bottle of bourbon
- a pot of chili

More tomorrow…

 

[Gravey]

I know you are but take it all in and relish the time with him. The grandfather I grew up deer hunting with died in 2005 at 85 years old. He bought a camper when he retired in 80 or 81 that ended up being our hunting camp. My uncle then kept it and used it and when he got diagnosed with pancreatic cancer 8 years ago I went and picked it up on a flatbed. Today it sits on our lease and every time I'm there I'm reminded of just how great my Pap was then and even more so in my mind today. Good luck Grandpa Jack!!! I'm rooting for you!!!

 

[Tn_Va_Hunter]

Good luck, Jack!!

Great weekend even if there was no kills. Those are now just bonus memories

 

[cbhunter]

Best of luck

 

[rem270]

Y'all had a great weekend. Congrats on the kills and great time y'all had. I never went hunting with my grandad but he was always one of the first ones to see what I got and wanted to hear the stories every time.

Good luck to Jack tomorrow! I'll be waiting for an update.

 

[TNTreeman]

Great story and enjoy the hunt. Best of luck to Mr Jack

 

[scn]

Prayers for a safe and successful hunt tomorrow for your Grandfather!

 

[backyardtndeer]

Congratulations to both of you, and good luck to Jack this morning.

 

[SSlater]

Great memories!

Would he still be interested in hunting from a nice ground blind?

 

[Vince]

All the best! Congrats on the kills so far!

 

[DoubleRidge]

Hope yall have a great hunt and make some great memories.

 

[archer19]

Good times already!!
Keep 'em going!

 

[thirdwilliam]

Nothing like hunting with your granddad. I have lots of memories with mine. Now I'm driving long ways to make sure my grandson has those same type memories.
Best of luck to you both

 

[Lost Lake]

Hope the hunt is going well this morning! Good luck!

 

[scn]

Well, a shot has been made by Jack, and the buck left at full tilt with his tail down. They are giving it a little time to look.

Prayers for a successful recovery, as this may be the last one he shoots at according to what he has told Adam about future plans.

 

[Ski]

Good luck and congrats on your current success!

 

[PalsPal]

Well, a shot has been made by Jack, and the buck left at full tilt with his tail down. They are giving it a little time to look.

Prayers for a successful recovery, as this may be the last one he shoots at according to what he has told Adam about future plans.

Here we go again. I'll be checking this thread all day.

Hope they find him!

At dinner tonight my granddad said he thinks tomorrow morning will be the last time he climbs in a ladder stand. He's getting too old and said next year he would return to camp chef.

I get not wanting to climb a stand, but talk him in to hunting from the ground. Be a whole other kind of deer hunting.

 

[megalomaniac]

C'mon papaw, get er done!

 

[Gravey]

Prayers he made a good shot and they find it.

 

[knightrider]

 

[Snake]

Hope you all find his buck and congrats on all the other kills .

 

[scn]

I don't want to leave folks wondering. The word from the woods was a clean miss. It will be a memory, but nothing for the wall.

 

[Pilchard]

What a morning! A shot rang out from his stand and I just knew we had a big buck on the ground.

Unfortunately it was a clean miss. No hair where the deer was standing and I tracked it 150yds where it was running through a field without a drop of blood.

I continued the three ways he could have went when he slowed down and stopped kicking up dirt. No sign of him anywhere.

Grandpa is bummed but we broke camp and picked up our deer from the processor before he headed south.

 

[rem270]

Hate it was a clean miss but glad it isn't wounded. Sounds like a great time regardless.

 

[Pilchard]

I'll share one more story from our trip.

On Saturday after I shot my deer, I got down to go get my grandfather and get the deer to the processor. I needed to get back to town for an event my wife was hosting.

I gutted the deer and walked back to the truck. I had to go about a half mile to go get him so I told him I'd be there in 10 minutes.

Half way to him, a tree had fallen across the road that I had travel twice earlier that same morning. Unfortunately my only option was to cut it out of the road and the only tool I had was my bone saw in my hunting pack.

Here is the tree that fell. What a job!

 

[Gravey]

Hate he didn't get the deer but sounds like y'all made some great memories. Assuming that's the lease with @Dbllunger he should've come out and taken care of the tree.

 

[Buzzard Breath]

I wish your grandfather would have gotten one, but what great memories. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Dbllunger]

Hate he didn't get the deer but sounds like y'all made some great memories. Assuming that's the lease with @Dbllunger he should've come out and taken care of the tree.

I have relinquished the management of and my place on the lease. The desire for me to kill deer has vanished. Still enjoy watching and have really enjoyed hearing from Pilch and the others the last few days on all the action and good deer they have seen. I have helped them with the learning curve of the property itself and given them all my old stand sites and any knowledge I have of deer movement and whatnot. I'm livin through those guys now and perfectly happy with it. I've killed more than my share and have been blessed with some really good ones from that property over the last 15 years. Proud of that property and what it has become.

Lol....I ain't cuttin no trees but if he ever needs me to get him unstuck again, I hope he calls. Pilch and the others on that lease are some really good folk.

 

[Pilchard]

I wish your grandfather would have gotten one, but what great memories. Thanks for sharing.

He did get one earlier in the week and I sent him home with the meat from my deer so he is tickled to have a full freezer.

Unfortunately the biggest deer of the trip escaped. His exact words were "he was a giant son of a b***h"

I think I know what deer it was based on his description. It's one I hadn't seen since august of 2022 and was a very big 8pt at that time.