Hunting Season has Begun!!!

Today was opening day for Archery Season here in TN.

Jamie with his 1st TN buck, gotten with his bow

Jamie got up nice and early, 4AM to get ready and be in his tree stand before the sun comes up.  I was down at the barn doing chores when he comes walking up telling me he got a buck.  He said he saw which way it ran off but needed to give it some time to lay down somewhere and hopefully die.

We finished up chores and went to the house and called Bob.  Bob is Jamie's friend's father in law who is in town visiting for a few days.  Bob and his wife Eileen are RVing to Arizona. Jamie has been hunting with Bob for over 20 years now.  Bob came right over and all of us, including the kids went off to find the buck.

Thankfully the buck, which was a 4 point did not go far and left a pretty good trail of blood.  Bob spotted the buck after a few minutes of following the blood trail.  Bob was nice enough to help Jamie gut the deer.  

Bob & Jamie starting to gut the buck

After the deer was gutted we needed to pull it up out of the woods.  Jamie was able to bring the 4 wheeler down to get it out but we tied a rope onto the deer's rack and had the kids pull for a bit just to see what it was like.

Drew, Hailey & Jamie dragging the buck

Once Jamie got the buck up to the house, Bob continued to help Jamie hang it, skin it and quarter it up into pieces.

Buck hanging before skinning

All the deer meat is in the fridge for now and Jamie will go ahead and cut it up and package for freezing tomorrow.  Jamie and I appreciate all the help Bob gave us today with the deer.  I know that we all enjoyed experiencing this together and Bob's presence just made it all the better.

Bob & Jamie with Jamie's 1st TN buck