Origin of "The Hunter"
- The Hunter (Connor Somerville)
- Jul 14, 2015
- 1 min read

I started hunting when I was 15 years old. I knew that both of my brothers had gone hunting with my dad when they were around that age but they had never had a rifle to take a crack at a passing deer.
I spent the first hunt by my dads side. we walked the bush and I got to take a few shots with his 30.30 lever action (a cowboy gun) and the year after that he handed me my grandfathers 30.06 (its a big gun). I got to join the rest of the club members and stand at a watch and wait to see if the other hunters sent any deer running my way. Alone in the woods and holding my rifle I did what I do best, wait silently until the right moment.
I could hear a ringing in my ears in the absence of the constant buzz of the city and the rumble of the 401. Then breaking the silence was a low rumble and the sharp cracking of branches in the distance. Suddenly running at full speed down the hill towards me was a large buck. I brought my rifle up and squeezed the trigger. Blam! just missed. Blam! missed again. Finally with the third shot I hit the deer right beneath the front shoulder and brought it to the ground. There I stood at 16 with my very first deer. I had become "The Hunter"
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