The Tale Of My First Deer

My family has had a deer lease in San Marcos, Texas since I was about seven years old. I loved going deer hunting every winter with my step dad. I had been hunting for five years with my mom and my step dad, and I got to see many animals during this time. However I was too young to carry a gun into the stand, so I could not wait until I turned twelve, because then I could carry a rifle myself. The weekend after Thanksgiving the year I turned twelve was my first time to get to carry a rifle into the stand. I was still hunting with my step dad, but this time if we saw any deer it was my turn to take the shot. I will remember this day for the rest of my life.

We woke up before sunrise and I put on my camouflage coveralls, my hiking boots, and my thermal underwear, because it was a very cold morning. We went to the deer stand that we called the sky stand, because it was about fifty feet up in the air in an old oak tree. We sat very quietly and waited patiently all morning, but we did not see any deer. Then around noon we got out of the stand and went back to camp. Like most days in Texas, the afternoon was much warmer than the morning, so I took off most of my...