Arctic_Beaver
Lil-Rokslider
Now that I'm settling back into "winter mode" I thought I'd share a hunt recap my girlfriend and I did back over Labor Day weekend this fall. She had never been hunting before, or done much shooting even for that matter prior to this experience. Around 2 years ago, we went on a hiking date and looked for grouse. I later discovered her fear of birds a few months after this. She did not mention it to me at the time when I said we should go hike and shoot some grouse for dinner. She happily tagged along, and might have cringed a bit when I did the "step on their feet, pull on their wings" trick to clean them. Anyways, hunting was a new activity for her, but one in which she would be willing to experience with me, as long as no close bird encounters were involved.
During the summer as the hunting season got closer, we started going to the Birchwood range frequently and she practiced shooting quite a bit. After our first range session, she was consistently shooting about 1MOA prone from 300 yards (max distance at Birchwood). I was stoked for her! Plenty capable if we could get in decent position for a caribou. She also took the required DF&G Hunters Ed. Other preparations included watching a lot of hunting youtube videos, talked about shot placement, talked about cleaning a caribou, went on a few training hikes, etc.
We finished our hike back into the desired area about 9-10pm along a riverbed. I glassed some with the binos on the tripod as we were eating dinner after camp was setup, didn't see any caribou. She later told me that in her mind, she was thinking along the lines of why the heck are we hiking so far if we haven't seen jack squat yet...
During the summer as the hunting season got closer, we started going to the Birchwood range frequently and she practiced shooting quite a bit. After our first range session, she was consistently shooting about 1MOA prone from 300 yards (max distance at Birchwood). I was stoked for her! Plenty capable if we could get in decent position for a caribou. She also took the required DF&G Hunters Ed. Other preparations included watching a lot of hunting youtube videos, talked about shot placement, talked about cleaning a caribou, went on a few training hikes, etc.
We finished our hike back into the desired area about 9-10pm along a riverbed. I glassed some with the binos on the tripod as we were eating dinner after camp was setup, didn't see any caribou. She later told me that in her mind, she was thinking along the lines of why the heck are we hiking so far if we haven't seen jack squat yet...
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