Hunter Houff: “Man talk about a roller coaster ride….we watched this buck all summer long and Hudson had his sights set on this deer so we named him “Hudson’s 10” Going into youth weekend I had high hopes that he’d get a chance, but the deer never showed. Continued getting pics of him pretty regularly. Last week I saw him one evening hunting by myself. Seemed like every evening I didn’t have time to take Hudson the deer showed up on camera. We hunted Monday and saw every single deer I was familiar with except this one. Tuesday the crossbow flew apart in my truck and noticed it right when we were getting ready to go out. Yesterday……well yesterday is when it got interesting. He came out real early in the evening and we got to watch him for about 45 minutes make his way to us. Before he could get to where Hudson could shoot my wife (long story) had some stuff going on at our house and it spooked the deer before Hudson could get a shot. With all sorts of emotion I figured we’d get another chance at him since he wasn’t spooked by us. This evening we had 35+ deer in the field and the evening was fading fast. I caught a glimpse of a deer at the edge of the woods and there he was at 30 yards. I didn’t have Hudson set up to shoot in that direction. So with my 3 year old sleeping on the floor of the blind I had to maneuver the tripod around, move the chair he stands on and open the window on that side. By the time I got all that straight the deer started walking across. Knowing he was gonna get out of the lane he needed to shoot I had to hurry to get Hudson on him. Moved the tripod, picked the chair up with Hudson standing on it and slid it around. I guessed him around 40 yards told Hudson put the 40 circle on him and he needed to hurry up and shoot. Wasn’t sure how good he hit the deer but after spending a little time and the blood trail opening up it led us right to him. I am one proud dad I can tell you that. Congratulations buddy, you are my best friend and something very very special! ❤️❤️❤️ and cannot thank my good friend Tyler Weaver enough for getting us set up and taking pictures to have these memories that will last a life time!!

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