A Girl of Many Animals

Dear Journal, Monday 12/10/07

11:26am- We are packing up now. We're about to leave. Nobody got any deer earlier this morning, but I still had fun 'cause me & Poppa saw SEVEN deer! 1 was a big buck, and I was too scared to shoot it (and now I REALLY rue that moment), so Poppa took a shot at him. He missed. Poppa had jerked the trigger instead of slowly pulling it.
A few minutes after that, Adam (he and Dad hunted in Pop's stand. Me & Poppa in Kyle's stand, and Luke in Zack's stand) had shot at a 6+ pt buck, but missed. :(.
Later, me and Poppa saw three doe (a big one & 2 smaller ones) eating corn (south. The buck was North.). I was probably going to shoot the ig doe, but then one of the little one's gt right in my way of shooting :(. Then they saw/heard something, stuck up their tails, and ran into the woods.
Later, we saw a small doe way at the top of the hill. It was west, but North of the stand. It was too far away, so we waited to see if a bigger deer (maybe even a buck!) would come out and come closer. But unfortunately, the deer just walked back into the woods, and nothing else came out.
A little while later, we spotted a small doe on the lower hill -- East. It was to far away for me to shoot (really for anyone), so I watched her through my binoculars, while Poppa was tring to load the gun. I looked back in my binoculars, and saw another deer! The deer was a big doe. She was sticking her head out of the woods. I told Poppa. He was still trying to load the gun which wouldn't. He looked through the binoculars at the deer, then handed them back to me. The big doe kept looking at us. Then she SLOWLY started to come out of the woods. A few minutes later, the smaller doe started to follow. The little 1 disappeard. The big one almost half in the woods. Poppa finally got the gun to load. He raised the gun. He looked through the scope. He aimed. BANG! He shot. The shot made me jump, so I had stopped looking through the binoculars (on accident) but for only a split second. I immeadeatly looked back through. The doe. Gone. That was the last of the deer we saw today. Luke never saw a deer. Adam shot at one and missed.
Me and Poppa got out of the stand, and went around the small pond to go see if the doe or only blood was there. None. Nata. Squat. After walking around for a few minutes, we went back up to the feeder where the buck had been. Nothing there either, except some sorta footprints of when he sprinted off into the woods. The others (Adam, Luke, and Dad) met us there at the feeder, and we checked around the feeder. When we saw no blood, we went back to where Poppa shot at the doe. Still nothing.

We are now on the interstate heading home! Home Sweet Home! I had a good time. I'm really glad I got to see some deer. ELEVEN of them! 10 Does, and 1 Buck. Me and Poppa both have seen 11 deer, and we've seen the most out of everyone! Well, I don't know how many Mr. Baugh, Jason, Kelsey, and Kyle saw, but I think me and Poppa saw the most. I've also seen LOTS of birds and bugs, 1 rabbit, 2 squirrels, and 1 racoon. I've also seen 1 dead Bobcat, and several dead deer (the others that weren't Luke's were Mr. Baugh's and Jason's from previous hunts). Well, that's about all. I guess, so Write to you later!

Luv,
Zimri the Equine and Canine luvr