After five hunting trips this season and well over 30 hours already in the stand together tonight my best friend and cameraman connected with a big doe. Finally, we got our first deer of the season as we traded high fives in the tree stand and tried to wipe the silly grins off our faces. Now the work began!!!!

My best friend Caleb and I started out this evening and just as we had four times before except it was usually cold and raining. At 43 degrees, we were defiantly feeling deer season in our bones. At around 5:30pm we both scrambled out of the truck because we were running very late and ran to the tree stand. After settling in and catching our breath, we settled in for a long afternoon so we thought.

As we sat there whispering and joking around a doe was quietly sneaking up behind us. At 6:00pm, Caleb and I both froze like ice in the artic. That little doe had snuck right up on us and now we where caught off guard. As that moment passed, panic set in and the hunter instinct took over in both our minds. Caleb grabbed for the phone as I kept and eye on the deer and talked him through what to do.

Then all of a sudden, the doe seen Caleb and jumped into the bushes a few yards away. Caleb then came to full draw and as the doe decided whether to run or stay Caleb kept hold at full draw and to me it seemed like at least a minute and a half. Then the doe stepped out, and the silent click of Caleb's release echoed as a sonic boom, and the doe fell immediately down.

It was a perfect shot but the doe made an awful noise and began kicking and flopping around. Caleb looked at me and I looked at him and we both were like "Oh man what do we do." Caleb then hurried down the latter and shot two more arrows into the doe before she expired. After a couple of astonished gazes, he then returned to the tree to figure out what just happened. We sat there for about another hour and just replayed the shot and everything that had happened.

We slipped and fell all the way back to the truck, which was about 900 yards away. We did not call my dad just because the fact we really wanted to surprise him. Therefore, we loaded up the deer laughed for no reason and headed home.

It just goes to show that no matter the conditions no matter the circumstances perseverance pays off. Also, on a day like to day Caleb and I still feel like there was a little divine intervention and we thanked God for more successful day in the field.