Posted on 11/30/2015 5:07:22 AM PST by SJackson
WISCONSIN (WBAY) -- Every hunter remembers their first buck and the story of how they got it. But a 10-year-old boy from Wisconsin had a rare experience that some may call beginner's luck.
"I wanted to go hunting this year because I really wanted a deer," said 10-year-old Kyler Verbeten.
Kyler went out hunting Sunday with his dad, with his gun for the first time.
"This squirrel kept distracting me, so I kept watching the squirrel," said Kyler. "The squirrel was just jumping from tree to tree, everything. It was just doing weird stuff."
Kyler and his dad eventually saw two deer in the woods.
"I said, shoot the big doe, because there was a smaller one," said Matt Verbeten, Kyler's dad. "He had the gun, and I'm kind of laughing, we'll see how he does, he's 10..."
Kyler's first shot missed the target.
"I said, 'Shoot again,' he puts it back up, BOOM. They just fell right over," said Matt.
Kyler's second bullet hit and killed two deer, the shot going through both animals.
"I was so excited I almost jumped out of the stand," said Kyler, "I just ran down the ladder and ran out there to look at them."
Kyler's dad helped him gun and drag the deer, and used his own tag, along with Kyler's, since they weren't planning on Kyler shooting two deer.
His dad says besides a one-of-a-kind first experience, he hopes Kyler takes away a lesson from the woods.
"Just for kids nowadays to get the value of nature, to get outside and do something," said Matt. "There's not an app for something like that."
Kyler says he'll sit with his dad and his brothers the rest of the season, and will definitely be back for more next year.
"Are you going to get three with one shot next year?" we asked Kyler.
"Probably...maybe, I don't know. Probably not," Kyler said.
It’s all downhill from here, kid!
Since no one else has brought it up.............yet.
I am curious as to what caliber rifle the kid had and what ammunition he was using.
“the shot going through both animals.”
Of course, I do not know the size of the animals either.
No condemnation, just curious.
Assuming this is not poorly executed sarcasm, this is the kind of snotty negativity we never had a Free Republic a couple of years ago, unless it was a drive by poll. Are you on the right site? Do you believe in Freedom and Family?
Oh yeah? Well a 14 year old meslam in Irving Texas ‘built’ a clock! So there!
smell the ozone
a .223 or .243 I am guessing
In the last two weeks myself and my sister have had deer vehicle encounters.
Mine was a low speed, deer ran into me or I ran into deer collison, no car damage and I believe deer survived.
My sister’s encounter was at highway speed and destroyed the side of her car, I doubt he deer survived.
I drove on Thanksgiving I saw no less than 10 deer carcasses on side of road, indicating as many deer car encounters, how many people and how much damage caused, because there are too many deer.
Pardon if I do not share your disgust at two being taken during hunting season. If someone can use the meat and learn a valuable lesson in the process so much he better.
“He had the gun, and I’m kind of laughing, we’ll see how he does, he’s 10...”
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I don’t find this story funny or amusing at all. My whole family hunts & we eat venison rather than buying beef. Pretty much everyone has a gun (or crossbow) and safety is #1, both at home and in the field. You teach safety at all ages .... including 10. That being said, dad either needs a lesson himself if he thinks taking that shot was okay or needs to give son a safety lesson on being aware of what is behind what you are shooting at. If the 2nd doe stepped out behind the first just as the kid pulled the trigger, then that is a true accident. In reading the story, it sounds like both deer were visible. You don’t take a shot unless you have an ethical, safe shot and dad should have told the kid to hold up until he had that kind of a shot at the first deer. I wonder what dad would have done if he didn’t have a tag himself to put on that 2nd deer.
If you eat meat, chicken or fish, wear leather, use lard for cooking, or use a goose down or feather filled anything, then not only are you a hypocrite, you are also NO conservative.
To paraphrase Mark Levin, “Get off the site you big dope!”
Do you need a safe zone?
I completely agree. Also, I’m not sure about Wisconsin, but tagging a deer you didn’t shoot in Texas will get you in serious trouble should the Game Warden find out.
HOW ABOUT YOU GO DOWN TO THE BORDER AND PROTECT THE COUNTRY FROM SOME F*@&ING REAL THREATS?
Gawd. Kids a hero though.
WTF.
Well patriot08, we’re up to about 30 responses on this thread and you seem to have disappeared. Nice hit and run.
Oh, I think Starbucks has a nice decaf that would work for you.
Party hunting is allowed in WI. You can fill someone’s tag as long as they are within voice contact, not electronic contact.
I looked at the WI regs .... there are exceptions under “group hunting” for shooting a deer for someone else & maybe an exception could be made for the dad, but a warden would have to figure that one out. Also the kid likely got a Junior Antlerless Tag (issued to those 10-17) and those tags can only be used by the person to whom they are issued .... so if you have one tag and get two, where does that leave you? Hopefully, before doing the story, the dad had enough sense to make sure that nothing in this situation was illegal or could get them in trouble.
http://dnr.wi.gov/files/PDF/pubs/wm/WM0431.pdf
OMG! ...just think of all those precious turkeys that just gave their innocent lives for our Thanksgiving fun.
I don't know how long you've been in Texas, Whitetail Deer are not an endangered species.
My God, woman ... what is wrong with you? You know nothing about this kid to make such a statement.
One of my teenage sons got two deer with one shot a couple of years ago. He never even knew the second doe was back there.
I find her post humorous, since she posted this yesterday.
Damn things should be shot site..exterminated.
PETA obviously hates them.
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