boogerbawb
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Well, dad's awful proud too. My 12-year-old daughter Sabrina got her first deer, this little 2x1 mulie, in the first half hour of season with her first shot. A rewarding experience for both of us, and I don't know who got the bigger thrill out of it. It was a tad bit tedious, but I sat through her whole Hunter's Safety course with her this fall and we spent the summer learning safe gun handling and accurate shooting using her 10/22 on the local gopher population. Now another potential Gen Xer is hooked by the lure of the hunt and will hopefull grow up to be a good hunter and gun owner. She's so excited about this deer hunting deal that this weekend we have to drive up north to buy whitetail B tags so she can give it another try this year.One note: My 6.5 Swede antelope rifle is awaiting a synthetic stock and new scope mount, so my daughter had to use my Spanish FR-7 "Poor Man's Scout Rifle", the .308 converted to 7.62x39mm via a chamber adapter from MCA/ACE Sports in Anchorage. She's still recoil shy and I didn't want her developing a flinch. Dad made the mistake of buying a bunch of that cheap Russian Wolf hollowpoint ammunition so we could practice alot. The stuff is not the most accurate and when I recovered the bullet from the deer, shot at around 80 yards, the hollowpoint had not expanded AT ALL, merely flattened a small bit on one side of the base. Good thing she was too excited to notice dad giving the deer an extra thump with the Springfield Scout when he got back up. We're switching to Winchester 123-gr softpoints for the next deer, and we'll see if they perform better.
