I have been hunting deer off and on for the last fifteen years. I never hunted growing up but started after I met the woman who would become my wife. My son and I were sitting under the canopy of a large evergreen a tree at approximately 7800 feet to wa...

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I have been hunting deer off and on for the last fifteen years. I never hunted growing up but started after I met the woman who would become my wife. My son and I were sitting under the canopy of a large evergreen a tree at approximately 7800 feet to watch a hillside and a clearing that was split by a small creek. After an hour of sitting with my son just talking and enjoying every minute, he sees three deer come down the hillside in front of us. As I reach for my rifle leaning against the tree, the second deer catches my movement and watches. I had binoculars but chose to use my scope to see the deer. The second deer is a 3x3 mule deer which then moves behind a few aspen trees but with a perfect opening between two trees at what came to be 110 yards. I tell my son to cover his ears and I take a shot, hitting the deer right behind the right shoulder. The deer paused, took two steps and then dropped. No more than 10 seconds elapsed from when my son saw the deer to when it was down. Great lifetime memory for my son and I.

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