15 Year Old California Sportsman Does It Big!

[HunterHarry]

My 15 year old Kid had a fair to middlin season.
Glad he took me along for the ride.

We started the season as usual with January steelhead fishing.

April brought the echos of rutting spring gobblers.
Thomas nearly won the local big tom contest with his huge archery tom.

With turkey season over we got in some local bass fishing.
The kid can put it to the green carp as well....

 

[HunterHarry]

Continued...........

After a long bowseason, the coastal blacktail rifle season opens.
Thomas breaks the ice with a 4x3 buck with an unusal little droptine.
Nice.

September came and with it cooler temps and the Blacktail pre rut.
On a cool autumn evening a piercing rifle shot cracks the still evening air and My son puts the smackdown on one incredible trophy Blacktail.
Wow!

 

[HunterHarry]

Continued.............



Our Wyoming hunt began with fresh snow and a very long hike.

The evening before the opener, I spotted a nice buck feeding on a distant ridge, Thomas took one look and said "I want THAT ONE".

After a restless night, opening morning dawned.
Two other groups of hunters were working the very ridge we were busy glassing.

We saw several elk on a distant ridge, but were very disheartened as we never laid eyes on "our buck".

Day two, The boy finds his buck and makes a perfect shot and the party begins.

7x7 with 4" browtines.
Very Nice.

After filling his Muley tag, we continued hunting elk and passing up lesser bulls for the next six days.
I just never found a wall worthy bull and I eventually passed on a 5x5 on the last evening in the high country.

We folded up camp and made the long hike out.
Finally got into town & got a room, recharged our batteries and went looking for a place to fill my son's antelope tag.

We spotted a distant herd, Thomas committed himself and the long belly crawl was on.

I stayed back and watched the whole thing unfold from about 3/4 mile away with my well worn Swarovskis.
A distant "pop" then the upraised arms.
I don my pack and trek off to meet my successful young man.
Another fine trophy.

 

[HunterHarry]

Thomas rounded out '08 just as he began it, battling beautiful California steelhead.

In all actuallity, my son had a completley unfair advantage over most other sportsmen on all of these adventures.
He had the best possible guide available.....
ME.

 

[Wyodeerhunter]

HunterHarry,
Congrats to your son! One of the only reasons to still visit MM's.com was to see what he stacks up every year! Thats hell of a season! Congrats!

 

[Muley Crazy]

Way to go DAD!! your teaching him well keep up the good work

 

[1_pointer]

That's a great season by anyone's measure! Congrats to you both!

 

[mtmiller]

Awesome HH. Glad to see you sharing your stuff over here. Great field shots.

 

[cornfed]

Great job on the guiding and field photos,keep up the good work.Congratulations to you and your son.

 

[AZ402]

Great job and great photos Harry, tell you son congrats!

 

[jabber]

Awesome year!!!!!!!!!

Congrats to your son and moreso to you for teaching him the right way.

 

[Bwana]

Looks like the kid has things figured out just fine. Congrats to the young-un!

 

[BOHNTR]

That's awesome Harry! Congrats to the young man.

 

[JoseCuervo]

Speechless!!!

 

[noharleyyet]

That's livin' the life & passin' it on. Thanks for the pics.

 

[shoots-straight]

Outstanding!

 

[Big Fin]

Harry:

Great job to your son. And to you. Congrats on a season of many life times.

If every season is like that, he is going to get spoiled.

Keep up the good work and keep posting the pics and stories. Love seeing young hunters being successful.

Tell him Congrats.

Very Cool.

 

[The Hedgehog]

That's awesome! Way to get him out and obviously interested in hunting and fishing!

 

[Dinkshooter]

That is one sweet muley buck.

Nice season.

 

[Oak]

Heck of a good season. The kid is living life right.