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Rough Draft-Application Essay Ever since I was a little kid my family has been hunting and going out into the whitetail woods in hopes of getting a nice buck. I remember going out to my grandparents and seeing the deer my family had harvested that fall, and wondering when I could finally get to go and experience what it was like myself. I always watched my dDad come home and have a little buck in the bed of his truck and I thought how come it wasn’t like in the hunting shows where they go out and shoot a massive buck. He told me that wasn’t real hunting and they hunt them in fenced in areas and that deer around my property didn’t have the chance to become that big and no one in the last 150 years of owning the property has anyone shot a big buck. From that moment on I wanted to be the one that changed that. …show more content…
This season I was ready I had been constantly going out and putting out feed and checking trail cameras, I had put in the extra work that I hoped would let me be the first to change the history of our family property. My Dad and I woke up early on the early fall morning and set out to the woods before the sun started to rise. We arrived to the stand just when light was starting to filter into the field, I was alone he headed back out to the house and wished me luck. I sat for a few hours waiting for deer but none came so I packed up my gear and wandered aimlessly my way back to the house. I warmed up with some coco my grandma had made me and said I was going to head back out after a quick

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