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Author Topic: Good job, Grant! Andy L HI, I'M THE NEW MODERATOR OF THE CENTRAL MISSOURI FORUM, PULL MY FINGER! Member # 642 posted November 01, 2010 10:21 AM                   This is my youngest son, Grant, he is 10 yrs old.  He killed this buck Saturday afternoon.  A very nice 9 point.  He was shooting my, now his after he took it away from me, 25-06 Ackley Improved.  He made a very impressive shot.  It was right at 250 yards and he dropped him in his tracks.  I could not be any happier. I have told a lot of you on forums and in person, and I mean it.  As much as I love to hunt, whether it be calling predators or hunting deer or other big game, I would be satisfied to never pull the trigger again if I could experience the joy and excitement of a young person or anyone else that has never experienced it before.  That hug I got after the deer dropped was worth more to me than a world record ever would be.  I think the smile on his face in this picture says it all.  There is nothing else like it to me. Good job Grant!  -------------------- Andy Posts: 2645 | From: Central Missouri | Registered: Apr 2005  |  IP: Logged TOM64 Knows what it's all about Member # 561 posted November 01, 2010 10:29 AM                   That is a nice deer young man! Andy, you done good again. Posts: 2283 | From: okieland | Registered: Feb 2005  |  IP: Logged Leonard HMFIC Member # 2 posted November 01, 2010 10:35 AM                       Good job, Grant! Andy, with your shoulder problems, you probably should go back to that wimpy 17? At least Grant will USE a 25'06Ackley! Did you cut the stock, or what? Good hunting. LB -------------------- EL BEE Knows It All and Done It All. Don't piss me off! Posts: 32363 | From: Upland, CA | Registered: Jan 2003  |  IP: Logged Kelly Jackson SECOND PLACE/GARTH BROOKS LOOK-A-LIKE CONTEST Member # 977 posted November 01, 2010 11:27 AM                    excellant. Posts: 997 | From: Comanche OK | Registered: Oct 2006  |  IP: Logged Rich 2,000th post PAKMAN Member # 112 posted November 01, 2010 12:13 PM                       Good job Grant!!! Nice Buck. How did you get to be such a handsome young man? You take after your Mother I suppose. -------------------- If you call the coyotes in close, you won't NEED a high dollar range finder. Posts: 2854 | From: Iowa | Registered: Feb 2003  |  IP: Logged Andy L HI, I'M THE NEW MODERATOR OF THE CENTRAL MISSOURI FORUM, PULL MY FINGER! Member # 642 posted November 01, 2010 12:44 PM                   Thanks fellas. Ill get Grant on here after while to tell ya about it in his own words. He kept his cool for a good half hour watchin this buck chase does before offering the shot then pulled it off. Never took a step. Im a proud poppa. -------------------- Andy Posts: 2645 | From: Central Missouri | Registered: Apr 2005  |  IP: Logged Semp GOLD STAR MEMBER Member # 3074 posted November 01, 2010 01:58 PM                   Very nice buck! Congrats Grant! And a heck of a shot to boot. That great smile is well deserved. -------------------- Always remember: That court appointed psychiatrist is not your friend. Posts: 419 | From: Kentucky | Registered: Aug 2008  |  IP: Logged Andy L HI, I'M THE NEW MODERATOR OF THE CENTRAL MISSOURI FORUM, PULL MY FINGER! Member # 642 posted November 01, 2010 04:00 PM                   LB, no, I didnt cut the stock. He shot it as it came. It is just a stock Rem 700 ADL that I took to my smith as soon as I got it. He, like most Rems now days, had to square the bolt face, true the action and I had it Ackley Improved, pillar bedded and got a trigger job, I think its about 3 lb or so. I stuck a Nikon 3x9 on it and it was my deer rifle, until my son wanted to trade my 300 Win Mag for his CZ 6.5x55 and I love that light kicker, so its been kind of a safe queen for a couple years, except when Jason would come down from Nebraska and he used it. Now Grant has claimed it. LOL Honestly, as good as that gun shoots both 100 gr deer bullets and 75 gr V Max, I would load the latter and use nothing else for a coyote rifle if I were a contest hunter. However, I am not a contest hunter and I like to pull fur. So, I will stick with the 204 Ruger. With a V Max, that damn thing will tear them in half at a long way out there. And very accurate and not overly heavy. So if anchoring the coyote was the only goal, I dont know how it could get any better. He had a good rest and said it didnt even kick. LOL He wouldnt have felt a BMG. -------------------- Andy Posts: 2645 | From: Central Missouri | Registered: Apr 2005  |  IP: Logged Lonny PANTS ON THE GROUND Member # 19 posted November 01, 2010 04:04 PM                   Nice buck Grant! Nice shooting too! Andy, I totally agree with you on being part of someone getting their "first" of anything while hunting, and even more so when it is your own son. Watching my son get his firsts meant more than anything I've ever killed. I'm not ashamed to admit that I felt the tears of joy welling up in my eyes when he killed his first big animal. Posts: 1209 | From: Lewiston, Idaho USA | Registered: Jan 2003  |  IP: Logged Andy L HI, I'M THE NEW MODERATOR OF THE CENTRAL MISSOURI FORUM, PULL MY FINGER! Member # 642 posted November 01, 2010 04:12 PM                   Lonny, I know what you mean. I have been blessed to have gotten the opportunity to go through it with both boys multiple times on deer, turkey, coyotes and trapping. And, I have taken other kids that wanted to hunt and helped them get their firsts. I just love that feeling. You know how proud they are and excited and it is just, well, words cant describe it. We got to keep it going. If we dont teach our kids to do this stuff, it will go away someday. -------------------- Andy Posts: 2645 | From: Central Missouri | Registered: Apr 2005  |  IP: Logged Randy Roede "It's Roede, like in Yotie Member # 1273 posted November 01, 2010 04:43 PM                    Priceless Andy, I long for the days of my son's hunting first's, I've got to wait for grandkids now!! Nice job Grant!!! Your the man!! -------------------- The only person dumber than the village idiot is the person who argues with him! Posts: 669 | From: Pierre SD | Registered: Mar 2007  |  IP: Logged Clank Knows what it's all about Member # 3687 posted November 01, 2010 05:01 PM                   Thats great it is always worth it to see the smile on a kids face and the satisfaction of being there congrats to you both. Posts: 45 | From: IL | Registered: Oct 2010  |  IP: Logged skoal Knows what it's all about Member # 1492 posted November 01, 2010 05:55 PM                   Way to go Grant! Good job Dad! Posts: 251 | From: desert s.w. | Registered: Jul 2007  |  IP: Logged Dave Allen Hi, I'm SUPER DAVE, IN CHARGE OF Q STUFF (and Goat Leader) "I'm really not trying to be a dick". Member # 3102 posted November 01, 2010 07:11 PM                   Grant thats cool stuff lil' dude Posts: 1986 | From: Jordan Valley Oregon | Registered: Aug 2008  |  IP: Logged DEL GUE SECOND PLACE: Mad Bomber lookalike contest Member # 1526 posted November 03, 2010 05:10 PM                    I'm with you, Andy! We measure ourselves by what we do for others, by what we pass on to our children. Decades from now, when we are dead and buried, he will be the skilled hunter, the 'Andy' of his time, and will have fond memories of hunts with his dad! -------------------- "I never could find no tracks on a woman's heart." - Bear Claw Posts: 588 | From: FL | Registered: Jul 2007  |  IP: Logged nd coyote killer HUNTMASTER PRO STAFF Member # 40 posted November 03, 2010 09:35 PM                   I've got three coming up and can't wait. Congrats little man remember these are the things that you keep forever, that moment you will dream about, think about and cry about in years to come. Andy I'm impressed way to go! -------------------- "Sure are cocky for a starving pilgrim" - Bear Claw Posts: 385 | From: On a hill | Registered: Jan 2003  |  IP: Logged DanS Scorched Earth (AZ Sector) Member # 316 posted November 03, 2010 09:48 PM                   Kewl, Nice buck. -------------------- futuaris nisi irrisus ridebis Saepe Expertus, Semper Fidelis, Fratres Aeterni: Often Tested, Always Faithful. Brothers Forever! Posts: 1482 | From: flyover country | Registered: Feb 2004  |  IP: Logged 4949shooter SECOND PLACE HIGGINS (MAGNUM P.I.) LOOK A LIKE CONTEST Member # 3530 posted November 04, 2010 02:54 AM                    Way to go Grant! Posts: 2274 | From: New Jersey | Registered: Dec 2009  |  IP: Logged Andy L HI, I'M THE NEW MODERATOR OF THE CENTRAL MISSOURI FORUM, PULL MY FINGER! Member # 642 posted November 04, 2010 04:27 AM                   Thank you all. Proud of the boy. -------------------- Andy Posts: 2645 | From: Central Missouri | Registered: Apr 2005  |  IP: Logged knockemdown Our staff photo editing Guru, par excellence Member # 3588 posted November 04, 2010 05:02 AM                      My hat's off to the young man!!! Posts: 2202 | From: behind fascist lines | Registered: Mar 2010  |  IP: Logged Andy L HI, I'M THE NEW MODERATOR OF THE CENTRAL MISSOURI FORUM, PULL MY FINGER! Member # 642 posted November 04, 2010 06:49 AM                   There is nothing like it. I helped Austin get many firsts, and even the ones that followed that I was fortunate enough to be part of were just as good. Taught them both how to catch coyote, fox, bobcat, beaver, coon and other furbearers. Last winter was a payoff. They trapped three bobcats, the biggest red fox I have ever seen, several beaver and coons while I was laid up. Makes you proud they learn it, not just do it. Sadly, Austin has outgrown me. He is as good or better than I am. Only thing he has left to learn is patience for big bucks. He kills what comes, and thats ok. I realize now that Grant is 10 and I better enjoy the next few years before he outgrows me too. BTW, the vote yall won for Austin, he goes turkey hunting in IL in January for the show. And, he got some pics emailed the other day from them of the farm they got picked out for whoever wins the December vote. WOW! I hope we can come together again and help him win that one. There are some whoppers in that area. I think he will have patience there. And he is a hell of a bow shot. One of those bruisers, should he win it, come by his stand, they have problems. -------------------- Andy Posts: 2645 | From: Central Missouri | Registered: Apr 2005  |  IP: Logged pitw Knows what it's all about Member # 3685 posted November 04, 2010 08:18 AM                   Feel proud Grant as you deserve too. You to pop. My boy is after his first deer too and up here you have to be 12. Posts: 31 | From: Alberta | Registered: Oct 2010  |  IP: Logged Patterson 19.6 miles down the Yellow Brick Road from THE EMERALD CITY Member # 3304 posted November 05, 2010 07:06 AM                    Good job Grant! Dandy buck. He is very fortunate to have a parent that gets him into the outdoors! Posts: 236 | From: Kansas | Registered: Nov 2008  |  IP: Logged

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