Cade's First Successful Deer Hunt

Cade has been hunting here and there with Matt the last 2 years, but has never come home with anything. This year they did. All week, Matt just took Cade up in the mountains above our house, after he got home from work. They would take the 4-wheeler up as far as they could go, park it and then hike. Matt says Cade spots deer so good and he is a great hiker. No whining! And they were hiking on some pretty steep stuff. But they were only seeing doe's. (We see so many deer down in our neighborhood, even some good size bucks, but you can't shoot them in the neighborhood. So we know they are up there in the mts. somewhere above our house. 

This past Friday, was kind of a hectic day for our family. I had a craft thing at church at 4:30 I was going to and Matt took Cade up hunting at 5. So Corey was suppose to babysit for about 1.5 hours. Matt was in cell phone range in case there was an emergency and Crew was sleeping. Well it got to be about 6:45 and Matt was not home and Corey was calling me....telling me he got a deer and it was almost dark. And she was going to be late to her cousins witch party. Anyways to cut it short, we worked it out...she made it to her witch party on time and Matt and Cade got the deer down the mt.

Matt said he knew the deer was not a big one, but Cade was so excited to finally see one with antlers that he told Matt to shoot it. So of course, being the best dad there is, Matt shot it and hit it. Matt even hit it on the run. Cade was so excited! Matt even gutted it. But he said it was quite the slaughter. He has not done it in so long. And he said he was dry heaving. But they dragged it down the mt. to the 4-wheeler and got it up on the 4-wheeler and made it home by dark  with a little help from Matt's friend Matt Jones.We took these pics in the morning with Cade cause it was too dark the night before.

All I know is that Cade is so excited to have these antlers to keep in his room. But WOW what a bloody mess in the backyard and the garage and all over Matt's clothes. So nasty and not my thing. I like to go camping when they go hunting but all that dirty deer stuff is so not my thing. But exciting to see Cade loving it. One day he will by old enough to get his own gun and shoot one himself. Matt had me help him lift it into the truck to take it to a friends house and I was gagging...blood dripping in the garage. Couldn't do it. Definitely could not work in the butchering dept. Not good with blood! But Cade is a true hunter!

Little boys loving it too!