Posted on 11/30/2015 5:07:22 AM PST by SJackson
WISCONSIN (WBAY) -- Every hunter remembers their first buck and the story of how they got it. But a 10-year-old boy from Wisconsin had a rare experience that some may call beginner's luck.
"I wanted to go hunting this year because I really wanted a deer," said 10-year-old Kyler Verbeten.
Kyler went out hunting Sunday with his dad, with his gun for the first time.
"This squirrel kept distracting me, so I kept watching the squirrel," said Kyler. "The squirrel was just jumping from tree to tree, everything. It was just doing weird stuff."
Kyler and his dad eventually saw two deer in the woods.
"I said, shoot the big doe, because there was a smaller one," said Matt Verbeten, Kyler's dad. "He had the gun, and I'm kind of laughing, we'll see how he does, he's 10..."
Kyler's first shot missed the target.
"I said, 'Shoot again,' he puts it back up, BOOM. They just fell right over," said Matt.
Kyler's second bullet hit and killed two deer, the shot going through both animals.
"I was so excited I almost jumped out of the stand," said Kyler, "I just ran down the ladder and ran out there to look at them."
Kyler's dad helped him gun and drag the deer, and used his own tag, along with Kyler's, since they weren't planning on Kyler shooting two deer.
His dad says besides a one-of-a-kind first experience, he hopes Kyler takes away a lesson from the woods.
"Just for kids nowadays to get the value of nature, to get outside and do something," said Matt. "There's not an app for something like that."
Kyler says he'll sit with his dad and his brothers the rest of the season, and will definitely be back for more next year.
"Are you going to get three with one shot next year?" we asked Kyler.
"Probably...maybe, I don't know. Probably not," Kyler said.
I worked the midnight shift when going to college and one of my friends left early at 5AM to go hunting on opening day.
We left work at our usual time and saw his car in the driveway on the way home, and thought he must have fallen asleep and missed it.
It turned out he went out in the woods, sat on a log to wait for sunrise, and fell asleep. He was awakened by a deer walking by, shot it, and was home and in bed before we got out of work.
Well Hooray for this little brat. He has taken two innocent lives just for the fun of it.
A buddy of mine got two turkeys the same way.
Forgot a sarc tag did we?
Meat is murder. Tasty,tasty murder.
Good for him. I guess he got the one that was destined for me.
We spent most of Saturday and part of Sunday up in the tree stands watching squirrels.
You would think they’d skedaddle after the first bang.
Well, I’m sure he’ll do better next time ...
And the fun of filling the freezer with meat for the family, and eating it.
Not bad for a ten year old. Heck, I was 11 before I got my first deer.
It’s weird. They hear the bang on one side and the bullet strike on the other and sometimes that confuses them long enough to get in a second shot.
You’re right, because no one eats venison, deer aren’t overpopulated due to their ability to breed and live in places where humans have driven out other predators. And because of the non-overpopulation, deer don’t pose a danger to motorists. (In 2010 in Wisconsin, there were 26,595 deer killed in traffic collisions, along with 14 humans and 65 humans who were critically injured.)
Maybe if you lived in this area, this little brat may have saved you from colliding with one of these deer and your safety and well being would produce a little more sympathy, or at least less outright derision and bitterness, toward hunters.
God gave us meat to eat. At least when the zombie apocalypse happens, he’ll be able to put meat on the table.
It takes a lot of time to grow carrots.
Plus,he is more humane tha PETA...
“Well Hooray for this little brat. He has taken two innocent lives just for the fun of it.”
1) You don’t know that the kid is a brat. Sounds like a nice kid to me.
2) You are giving animals human characteristics, which is just plain stupid.
3) This will probably be one of the nicer responses you get on FR for you silly comment.
People Eating Tasty Animals!!!
On the whole, I believe I'd prefer him to you.
“Well Hooray for this little brat. He has taken two innocent lives just for the fun of it.”
They weren’t innocent. Think of how many plants, fruits and nuts they killed.
A few years ago, I had my tags filled by 7:15 AM. Legal shooting hours started at 6:45.
Two nice doe walked right up to the blind, and two shots later I had meat on the ground. A friend of mine is a game warden, and met me at the barn. Seems he was watching our new blind (with stove, windows, and chairs) and wondering if it would work.
He didn’t stop laughing for a long time.
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