But the party wasn't looking for mature bucks their hope was any legal whitetail, no matter the size or age. This area is intensively farmed with scattered woodlots dotting the landscape: not the greatest habitat for protecting bucks long enough for them to reach prime age. The tract featured a 30-acre woodlot in the middle of open farmland. Jordy's grandpa had secured permission for the group to hunt a small tract of private land within the municipality of Chatham-Kent. 'We hoped to get a deer or two — but even if we didn't, it was going to be fun anyway.'įollowing much anticipation and preparation on the part of all four hunters, Ontario's firearms season was upon them. 'Then my friend Chad said he'd come along, as well,' the young hunter adds. That alone made the season special for me.
But I asked them both if they would hunt with me (in '16).
'It had been several decades since my grandpa had gone deer hunting, and I don't remember my dad ever going. 'Nobody in my family was a hunter,' Jordy notes.
