A Tale of Three Whitetails

The 2018-2019 season would prove to be a special one for me, my wife, Neva, and my son, Randall. Randall was engaged in 2018, and Andrea, my soon-to-be daughter-in-law was fond of our ranch and showed some interest in hunting. Like many newcomers to hunting, she was not too excited about getting up before daylight and trekking to a dark deer stand. But I did manage to get her out of bed on at least one chilly morning to go watch a few does, a four-point, and a young eight-point.

Andrea had become proficient with one of my rifles. Her favorite was a heavy barreled varmint rifle in .22-250. A very heavy rifle in a light caliber is easy on a new shooter. I was worried about it being too small for whitetail in the hands of a shooter who would be shooting at her