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.
“Protecting the border and hunting are two entirely different things.”
Funny, your post 32 tried to make a connection.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3366282/posts?page=32#32
I know that. It is you who apparently fails to understand that.
So from your blovating I guess you are doing there shooting people?
No?
Hypocrite.
No, Jed here will only agitate for OTHERS to go do the shooting.
Much like gov mole poster FAA agitated during the Bundy Ranch standoff.
I just grew up with a natural love of animals.
As an adult I have become very actively involved in efforts to preserve our endangered native Texas animals from destruction by man.
See my bio page to observe our endangered animals and what we are doing to help them: http://www.freerepublic.com/~patriot08/
So go ahead and flame, call me Liberal or anything unfair and disgusting you can think of. It matters not.
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I’m sorry, but vehicular damage and death, disease and starvation are better in your eyes than managing the population of deer and getting food as a side benefit of same?
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UaPJp9KmmFI
http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/6296/20140308/deer-overpopulation-threat-forest-growth-researchers.htm
I love animals too but deer are not endangered, not even close.
I for one respect your feelings, though I don’t totally share them. Culling the herd is necessary to maintain a healthy population, and I prefer to see it done humanely rather than through starvation. I used to hunt a long time ago, but don’t any longer. If food or property damage became an issue I might start again. I’d just as soon watch deer as shoot them in most cases.
I don’t like to see any living creature suffer, not even mice, rats, roaches or pit bulls (or progressives). But some things do need killing.
There are more deer here in suburban coastal New Jersey than there were in 1776. Back then if one wandered into your yard you grabbed the musket and put meat in the larder. Now they are free to roam all but a couple of weeks a year, and the only predator left is the automobile, which generally tries to NOT kill them.
Our 11 year old Grandson is up the mountains now.This is his first hunt for deer :)
Oh, the horrors of your Thanksgiving dinner!!! Poor innocent turkey! Poor little unborn chickens in the dressing and deviled eggs. Poor horse who donated his hooves to the green jello. Those fried onions on the green bean casserole were likely fried in animal fat. Were those leather shoes you kicked off as you loosened your leather belt for seconds? Hope your afternoon nap was peaceful on that feather pillow. Did you drive home on leather seats and whip out your leather wallet to buy a burger with extra bacon?
LOL!
In Wisconsin, deer are a nuisance. Even big cities like Milwaukee has a deer population. The amount of damage done to vehicle, crops, lives etc is enormous. Here in central Wisconsin they are everywhere.
Did your father put meat on the table or did he just shoot and leave it there for the buzzards?
Deer aren’t endangered.
So, you’re either vegan or you enjoy a nice steak.
I dont eat animals of any kind
He has taken two innocent lives just for the fun of it....Who’d he shoot? (Not WHAT).
I wonder what dad would have done if he didn’t have a tag himself to put on that 2nd deer.....Drag #1 out and go back for #2. Tagged legally, though.
So, you don’t eat?
Good for you. You are welcome to your beliefs.
Berating others who do not share your belief as far as hunting and eating animals is uncalled for, IMO.
What is being discussed here is a normal activity that has been part of humanity since our ancestors first became sentient, however that may have come to pass.
You have the right to believe what you please, but what gives you the right to look down your nose and type condescending comments to people who are engaging in a perfectly legal activity that is actually putting food on their own tables?
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