My 14 year old is finally old/mature enough to take on a walkabout with greater intentions than to just 'enjoy the great outdoors'. He's becoming a pretty good outdoorsman and that clicked for me on one of our final still/stalk walks last season.
It was peak rut on one of those super cold Saturday mornings. We decided to sleep in and let the frost burn off a little and to move around a little rather than sit in the cold assed shooting house. There is a mile of big creek bottom that splits our land in two so we started on the far side with the goal of walking it, starting at the far end and slipping our way through. About 50 yards in we made our first stop. After about 10 minutes he gave me a 'psst. doe'. The doe came through and then a 5 pt, spike, another doe, and 2 8 points. He had to twist and shoot free hand to shoot one of the 8 pts. Was a fine shot in the woods at about 60 yards for anyone. He immediately jumped up and screams "I fvcking dropped it!!!" He then looked at me like I was going to be mad, but how could I be?. High fives and hugs all around.
I doubt I'll get many more hunts like that, if any. It sure was special.
This was just a long way to say- yes, still/stalk/whatever you want to call it does work. And it can also be 1000x more fun that stand hunting when things do work out.
Last edited by marlin78; 07/07/25 03:40 PM.
