Personal Narrative: New Hunting Spots

It was a cold bitter night on the 1st of December in 2012. I decided to try out a new hunting spot for the first time. I knew that it was going to be much colder because i did not have any walls around me to protect me from the brutally cold wind. The temperature gauge read a bone chilling 5 degrees, and i knew that it was only going to get worse as the day came to an end. I made sure to wear extra clothes and to dress in layers for the long five hours that I have ahead of me sitting up against a tree. I say goodbye to my mom, dad and sister and grab my furnace full of hot coffee and my muzzleloader. As I began to walk I can hear my parents saying good luck and be safe. Also once I got farther away I can hear them say, “Don’t come home unless you get us dinner” referring to the deer that I …show more content…
Once I reach where I was planning on spending my night until dark, I clear an area of snow, and then place my chair and lean my rifle up against the closest tree. As I am sitting there, all that I can hear hear is the sticks breaking behind me but I do not see anything coming out of the tree line and coming my way. It is always discouraging to a hunter, especially a newer one who has not developed as much patience yet and waiting for the one to come into your sight, and more importantly, come into your line of fire and take the shot. It is now going to get darker soon, it is starting to get closer to 6:30 and that is about as late as I can stay out and still be able to shoot still, but out of nowhere, 8 deer come sprinting right to my bait pile. By this time I have been sitting outside for three hours and it was barely above five degrees and I was more cold at that very point than I ever have been but I wouldn’t of changed all single about what has happened in the last three hours. The deer ran straight to my bait pile that was 30 yards away and started eating everything in