AARON PAINTER with his second harvest of the season, a button buck he took on Dec. 21. Submitted photo / Star Beacon
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Outdoors Insider, with Dale Sunderlin: Men of muzzle’s harvest — 20,659
DALE SUNDERLIN Star Beacon
Recovery Value = ((gross score - 100)2 x $1.65) + the value derived in the Wildlife Value Formula ($500 as of 3/08). (Both of the above Reprinted by permission of the ODOW)
Aaron’s own
You may remember back a couple of months ago a story I did on a young man named Aaron Painter and Camp Camo taking him out and helping him get his first deer. Well this time he did it again but with no help from anyone, completely on his own.
Baby, it’s cold outside
Aaron woke up early on the morning of Dec. 21 during the extra gun weekend and decided it was a bit windy and real cold, 14 degrees, to be exact, so he rolled over and caught another 40 winks. Waking again at 10 am he ate breakfast and decided to watch some TV, the hunting channel of course, hoping the weather would calm and warm some. That got Aaron cranked a little and by 11:15 a.m. he decided to head out. He suited up, in all the warm clothes he could muster, and started for the woods.
Breathe and squeeze
When he first broke into the woods, he spooked some doe out of their beds to his left, but no shot. He was now within sight distance of his stand and started to walk towards it. Suddenly something caught his eye, right in front of his stand, there was a group of deer, slowly milling around, eating what they could find.
He immediately put down his bag, slowly of course, he couldn’t really see if they were buck or doe so he picked one out that was walkin’ right in front of his sights. Aaron waited until he could see the kill zone, by now he was a little nervous and unsure of himself, thinking that he might miss.
Then he remembered what his dad, Bill, had told him, “just take a deep breath and slowly let it out and squeeze the trigger.” (Good call, Dad, just the way it should be done), so that’s what he did. As his Remington 870 exploded so did the gathering of deer. In all the excitement, Aaron couldn’t tell if he had hit one or not.
Call for backup
No knowing for sure about the shot he called dad and told him he had taken a shot and was pretty sure he had hit one, he was also real sure he needed his help tracking it.
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