Nate Golden, 16, takes down nice Illinois buck.
Maybe it doesn’t take getting up before the crack of dawn to bag a trophy buck. I like getting in there early to hear nature awaken, but not 16 year old Nate Golden. He managed to sleep in until 9:00 and still harvest himself a wall hanger.
It was the morning of November 18th and Nate had decided to do a little still-hunting in an area he’d spotted several good bucks working. He was slipping through a low hardwoods funnel, when he and his cameraman spotted a buck standing over a doe. Nate takes advantage of the stealth tactics he’d learned watching Spiderman and attempts to crawl to a nearby fence row to see if he can get a shot.
He and his cameraman crawl for over a hundred yards and finally get within Mossberg shotgun range. Nate rests his trusty banging stick on the rusty barbwire fence and puts his mind in cuttin’ down mode. Nate has yet to kill a buck of this caliber and he knows his buddies will give him all he can handle if he misses. It’s a warm shotgun season in Illinois and small sweat beads begin to form as buck fever sets in.
As the safety flips off, images flash before his eyes of the movie “Bambi” which he still watches before he goes to bed. Then he begins to think of what his hero Buzz Light-year would do and at that moment an instinct hits him like nothing he’s ever experienced. He puts the crosshairs on his objective and BAM!
Unsure if he’d hit his mark, Nate’s excitement level is in limbo. He approaches the area where his target had stood and checks for any sign to indicate he hit his mark. To his surprise, the huge 10 point had just ran 30 yards. I don’t think words can express the relief and excitement in this kid’s eyes.
The instinct of hunting needs to reach all kids out there. The only way to do it is to get them involved and let them see how truly cool it is. Trust me it will be worth every penny.
Paul,the whole thing is true. I have the video to prove it. I’ll send it your way. Thanks for writing the story. Quite funny
Hey Buddy, Glad I could write and post it for ya.
BigTime
Oh man, that’s MONEY ($.$)
Love seeing the kids succeeding. killer story
Sleeping in has brought me lots of luck in the past…watching bambi before bed?
I agree its all about instinct. We are born with it…
pretty sick little man keep on hunting!
A kid is the real reason you were late because you were watching bambi in the morning with a box of tissues.
This is one lucky kid becaue i know a guy who bow hunted with him a couple weeks earlier. He was filming the kid (Nate) and when the got in their stands Nate said he had to shit and so The camera man told him he could not get down just go over the rail of your climber. So he does. of course he shit in his bow and string
hey now when a man has to go a man has to go and i’m not a kid
But not that way little man. Great deer and story.
thanks to all that made this possible and also thanks to paul for posting it for me
you go little brother, keep ir up! You got lots of great years ahead my man! I too love seeing the kids getting out there. thanks Critic and bring us more of this stuff 2.
Hey, did he ever say that he killed it with a BB gun out of a moving truck???
he did, he told me the whole story late one night over some hot pockets and Andy Griffith.
Finally they know the real story NATE. lol
josh
NOT TRUE
straight up that is sick… Glad to be your 300th
Great story Critic. Awesome read.
Entertaining story.