{"id":284,"date":"2007-11-18T19:05:12","date_gmt":"2007-11-19T00:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/life\/opening-day-starts-with-a-bang.html"},"modified":"2007-11-18T19:05:12","modified_gmt":"2007-11-19T00:05:12","slug":"opening-day-starts-with-a-bang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/life\/opening-day-starts-with-a-bang.html","title":{"rendered":"Opening Day Starts With a Bang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, my dad got a nice deer to start the regular season. Of course we had already put plenty of time in the field during bow season, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/life\/weekend-in-the-windy-woods-bow-hunting.html\">Terry&#8217;s button buck on October 20th<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/life\/bounding-playfully-through-the-woods.html\">my doe on November 3rd<\/a>. Plus, Gary <a href=\"http:\/\/poppisphotos.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/good-morning.html\">bagged a buck on October 28th<\/a>.  Now, it was Dad&#8217;s turn to have a 2007 deer story. <\/p>\n<p>Terry was in town for one last hurrah as the cheap pre-Thanksgiving flights allowed him to sneak in one more weekend. Saturday was a beautiful and chilly November morning. The sun came up earlier than usual because of the clear skies in the east. We were all up by 5am and on stand by 6:30am. Before first light we were already hearing plenty of shots in the distance (which is totally illegal, but doesn&#8217;t seem to bug some of the fine sportsmen of Livingston County). Round about 7:40am I heard a shot from my Dad&#8217;s general area, then a second only 10 seconds later. I flipped on my radio to hear the good news. Through his excited, heavy breathing Dad said that he had gotten a buck. It was a nice 6 pointer that came right into the open field to the side of him. He took one excellent shot from 40 paces. The deer did a somersault, and then kept on moving toward the woods. Dad took a second shot which was the final blow, and the deer expired immediately.<\/p>\n<p>I thought I&#8217;d get down out of my tree stand around 8:30 to come help him out. By the time I reached him, the deer was already field dressed. He&#8217;s got this solo gutting thing down to a science now. We took the deer over to Steele Sausage and Catering in Avon, NY where our favorite deer processor and sausage man, Tim Steele took the buck as a donation to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.venisondonation.com\/\">Venison Coalition<\/a>. Congratulations on a nice deer Dad!<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/deer-hunting-2007-005.jpg' title='Dad Rz and Kris with 6 point buck'><img src='http:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/deer-hunting-2007-005.thumbnail.jpg' alt='Dad Rz and Kris with 6 point buck' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span class=\"caption\">Kris with Dad Rz and his 6 point buck on November 17, 2007<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, my dad got a nice deer to start the regular season. Of course we had already put plenty of time in the field during bow season, including Terry&#8217;s button buck on October 20th, and my doe on November 3rd. Plus, Gary bagged a buck on October 28th. Now, it was Dad&#8217;s turn to have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hunting","category-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}