Gerald Martin
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Another great show. Gerald, too much coffee to hold the camera steady during the shot?
Hah! I didn't have time to get the tripod legs set before the shot and was standing beside the barrel. It happened pretty fast. That doe had smelled us and looped around from our left to right. When she stopped, the grass was too tall to set Gareth up on the shooting sticks so he slid over and braced off the tree. I wasn't really even encouraging him to shoot because I thought it might be too difficult of a shot for him to make. He was looking through the scope and I asked him if he was steady. He told me he thought he could kill her so I said go for it!
Crazy thing was, not only did I jerk the camera, I also blinked when he shot, so I didn't see a thing. The deer hit the deck so fast I missed it. While we were trying to figure out what happened, another doe popped out from the same direction this doe was facing. She was 80 yards out and broadside. I wasn't sure what happened, but I told him to hold off even though he had another tag and could have legally killed two deer. He's a pretty good shot, so I wanted to make sure what happened on the first shot so he didn't fill his tags with two does.
As you can see, he had connected on his first shot and tomorrow's episode will show just how glad we were that he held off pulling the trigger on the second doe!
