We live in Indiana and he had been hunting for years here. Trying to find a place to hunt has become a real issue here since there's only 2.8% of the land that is public and then not all public land can be huntedone on. I entered him into the Colorado draw for 2nd season since it had the best odds to draw. There were 4 youth tags given out and he was one of them. On the 4th day of the hunt and many miles on the boots he took this really nice buck at 11:30 am. We only seen 4 bucks the entire time. The one he took 2 that were with him and one the day before that someone must have bumped because he was running in the open around 2 in the afternoon.
Sons first deer
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Steelhead
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Awesome!! Great picture. Congratulations.
LCH
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Nice buck! Congrats to you both. What part of Indiana are you from?
CRANNY
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That is great! One heck of a first deer. Congrats to your boy and to you!
JohnCushman
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Awesome!!
jhudson1
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Congratulations to you both. He looks like a happy young man, as he should be!
rmyoung1
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Wow. Great deer. Congratulations
We live half way between indianapolis and terre haute not far from I 70. I'm not sure who was more excited me or him. I'm sure glad I made the deal that I was carrying the backpack in and he carried it back. We were 1 1/2 miles from the truck.
Very well done!! Congrats to your son!
http://www.in.gov/dnr/healthyriver/7638.htm
IIRC that Healthy Rivers INitiative has open some ground to the public for hunting in that part of the state. Might be worth checking out.
http://www.in.gov/dnr/healthyriver/7638.htm
sbhooper
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Great hunt!
duckhunt
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Very cool
Nameless Range
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Great picture! Well done.
Southern Elk
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Congrats! That's one heck of a first deer. Just another example of the importance of public lands.
We went there and so did about 50 other people so it was a little to crowded for me. We did end up going to Cecil M Harden lake. I got a small 8 point which I was happy with considering how hard that area had been hunted
Congrats! The smaller public land areas can get a bit crowded during the opening weekend of gun season. I grew up hunting Sugar Ridge in the far south part of the state and hunt near some public ground around Patoka Lake now. Both of those are places one can get away from the crowds if the choose to.
Bowhuntrben
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Heck of a buck...congrats to you both!
prhunter
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Congrats
COEngineer
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That's a dandy first buck!
Rbosch02
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That's awesome! Congrats to your son!
