Outdoor Truths: Aiming Outdoorsmen Toward Christ June 15, 2017
For years I have plodded up to the barn to hunt deer. It is my favorite place to take a youth or someone new. It has also produced a good harvest for me as well. There are so many stories; I will never remember them all. The one that comes to mind now is the one morning Jim let me know there was a nice buck running around in the bottom field. It was during the second rut. He had watched the buck and some does as he worked around the yard. He lived there so he was my most reliable scout. Each day as he worked and piddled, he would be privy to deer sightings and he was always willing to share any information. After his news that morning I decided to set up a quick pop-up blind in the area he had alluded to. The blind would only be about 20 yards from a metal barn and about another 100 yards from his house. It was a place where the deer was used to seeing human activity all the time. The blind, however, would keep me hidden while I waited on the buck to show up. I had barely got into the blind that afternoon when almost like clock-work, a string of deer began to move into the field. The buck was among the deer. Jim's prediction was right. Twenty minutes after I had gotten into the blind, the deer was mine. gary@outdoortruths.org ~ www.outdoortruths.org
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