A Personal Narrative Essay: The Life Of Hunting

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It was 4:30 in the morning I had just gotten up. It was the second and the last day we had to hunt. The day before my brother (Brandon) had shot his deer and I had not gotten one yet. We were all at the table eating our breakfast That's when my dad looked at me. “You going to get one today?” I looked at him and said with confidence, “Yes.” By now it was 6 a.m and we were all getting our clothing on they were very frigid because we had left them outside overnight. Me and my dad had finished and my older brother the one I was going hunting with was still changing. He is always the slowest one of us.
When he was finally done we when outside with our guns and ammo. I loaded my gun up and we headed out to the tree stand it was still very dark it was like walking with your eyes …show more content…

They were at fifty yards I took my aim on one of the deer. My heart was pounding like a hammer hitting a nail. I slowly pulled the trigger and Bang! I had fired and hit the deer. It look of like a rocket into the woods.
My brother had taken a video of my shot and he showed me it. That gave me full confidence that I had made the kill shot. Right after that I texted my dad that I had taken a deer.
Not long after five more deer came out of the wood right in front of us. The first one in the group is the biggest female on our property.
About thirty minutes later we when down to go look for my deer. The first place we look was the spot that I had shot it at. Right away we found lots of blood. My brother picked up a leaf and said to me,
“The blood is bright red and bubbly, which means you hit it in the lungs”. That made me think that the deer could not be far because it was running on its last breath, and sure enough it had only gone fifty yard. At that point we had to drag it back to the house. It was a long and slow process back to the

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