Kyle's Story

One of the great facets of deer season is the storytelling. And the following is no exception. Kyle Aho just emailed the Whitetail Team the story of his first deer. Congrats to him. Below is the unedited version of Kyle's story.-Jake




Hey this is kyle Aho. I'm from Wolf lake MN and i dont have a bow but i have a rifle and last year was my first year of hunting and i nailed a doe. i was hunting with my dad and it was about 2 hours before dark when i shot it, but here's the story. My brother had gotten 2 nine pointers that morning and i went to help him hang them at my other brothers house in his shop. my brother with the shop has a nice stand and has lots of mature bucks he has (had) a nice 12 a ten and a couple eights. I live on a 1800 acre farm and me and my dad didn't see anything that morning so i wanted to hunt on my brothers property but i would have to go in a small alfalfa field that only had smaller bucks and a few does but whatever i tool the chance. my sister in law has a stand off that field with a clover plot in it. and she harvested a 8 pointer that morning. well me and my dad got settled and i was in my real tree came coveralls and a orange vest sitting in some pine trees facing the woods but most of the deer come from behind us. well we were out there for about 30 min. and 2 fawns came out with there mother in the woods and i couldn't get a good shot so i let her go. she went around through the woods and she came back through the clover plot and was heading for my brother. i grunted and had a perfect broadside shot ant about 100 yards open sights. I missed:(:) but the she turned toward my brother then back from were she came but she was running along side the woods and my dad shot at her and missed the i nailed her in the spine and dropped her. I was so excited the i jumped out of my chair. About forty five minutes later a buck came out it was a smaller buck but my dad didn't notice that he shot and missed it but boy was that but ever dumb it stood there and i shot at it but i missed it but i would of got it but there was a branch about 8 inches in diameter in my way but it finally took off running and my dad knocked it out by shooting its horn off. It was a really cool deer hunt the doe weighed about 130 it was a big one.