Should I ?

Should I shoot? Opening day of deer season, It’s my very first day hunting with a gun in my hand. I had been many times before with my dad without a gun. As the sun brakes free from the dark sky we are sitting in our favorite hunting spot. We are sitting for about 2 hours when I see this monster deer walk right to me. This was the first deer I had ever seen while in the woods hunting.

My dad didn’t see the deer walk in only I did. I froze when the deer came close and my heart started to race and the sweat started to run down my face the shakes began to overcome my hands and arms. This is what you call buck fever. This is something that happens to everyone the first time. Its hard at first to think that you are taking a life but once you understand that the life and is being taken for a good reason and will provide for a family you start to become thankful to the sanimal and you thank god for the animals sacrifice. As the deer inched closer and closer the thought ran tho my “when do I shoot?”. I was afraid to ask my dad and I was to nervous to think. I didn’t want to take a shot to soon or to late so I whispered to my dad “Its right there”. As he begins to tell me what to do I stared blankly at the deer. Dad says “shoot when he turns”, I just sat there .The deer then proceeds to see and smell me and my father sitting on a rock. The deer turns and that was my time to shoot. I brought my gun up and the deer ran away. At that moment I understood that I needed to ask when to shoot. I was so nervouse that I just blanked out and sat there. I knew that having a gun of my own is a privilege and that fact that my father could join me made the moment even better for me. Having a father that would take me places and have fun with me is a gift.

Having the responsibility of owning a firearm is a very big deal. Not everyone has the proper knowledge to own a gun. Owning a weapon is not for everyone. I do not hunt just for fun. I hunt to provide food for my family. It not just a trophy, it’s a life style, Hunting is not easy. It takes many hours to get something out of it. Its very common to freeze when that first deer comes close. This was a learning curve and a failure at the same time. I got all the nervous bugs out. I have now got over the learning curve. This year I got a deer all by myself with no help and no wondering when to shoot. I took my time and waited for the shot to provide its self. I needed to fail to get me ready for the next time. The failure has repaired me for when the next deer gave me the opportunity.

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