Hamilton Reef
12-15-2004, 01:35 PM
Indiana must has more liberal age regulations than Michigan.
8-year-old bags deer with heirloom
http://www.thestarpress.com/articles/7/031170-9247-003.html
By JOHN ESTRIDGE
sports@muncie.gannett.com
LIBERTY, Ind. - Levi Robbins lined up the gunsight of the old shotgun on a couple of does.
The 8-year-old from rural Liberty badly wanted to bag his first deer Nov. 13, the first day of gun season in Indiana.
But Mike Robbins steadied Levi's hand and pointed at another deer a little away from the does.
It was an 8-point buck about 22 yards away from the deer stand that the father and son shared. Levi shifted, lined up the shot and let go with his 77-year-old Stevens 4-10 shotgun.
The perfect lung shot dropped the deer after two steps.
The gun has a long history in the family.
It was was given to Levi's great-grandfather Robert Buchanan when he was 11.
It was then passed to Levi's grandmother, Mary Neuman, who hunted with it when she was a little girl. Neuman passed the gun along to her grandson.
Mike and Terri Robbins were a little concerned the 4-10 would not pack enough punch to bring down a deer, so they'd bought another gun for Levi to use this fall.
However, Levi and his dad could not sight in the 20-gauge. But Levi hit everything he aimed at with the 4-10, Terri Robbins said.
"It doesn't mess up," Levi said.
A hunter since he was 5 years old, Levi told all of his classmates in the third grade at Temple Christian School in Connersville about bringing home a buck. They were excited, but not many understood.
"Only a couple hunt," Levi said.
Terri said Levi was ecstatic on the Saturday morning of the hunt. He was up at 4 a.m. and confessed to sleeping a couple of hours in the deer stand. When he woke up, he saw two 14-point bucks.
But they were in the next pasture over on his parents' farm in western Union County. That was too far for a good shot.
He then learned the patience necessary to be a hunter.
"I like hunting, because you get to be up high," Levi said. "But the bad thing is you can't talk."
After dropping the deer, father and son headed home for some processing equipment and to tell Terri.
"He came bouncing in about 8:30 and told me he was the one that shot it," she said.
They took the deer to be processed, and the head is being mounted.
For Levi, the best part is that he outdid his dad. Mike took a 6-point buck during bow season. "I beat my dad," Levi said.
8-year-old bags deer with heirloom
http://www.thestarpress.com/articles/7/031170-9247-003.html
By JOHN ESTRIDGE
sports@muncie.gannett.com
LIBERTY, Ind. - Levi Robbins lined up the gunsight of the old shotgun on a couple of does.
The 8-year-old from rural Liberty badly wanted to bag his first deer Nov. 13, the first day of gun season in Indiana.
But Mike Robbins steadied Levi's hand and pointed at another deer a little away from the does.
It was an 8-point buck about 22 yards away from the deer stand that the father and son shared. Levi shifted, lined up the shot and let go with his 77-year-old Stevens 4-10 shotgun.
The perfect lung shot dropped the deer after two steps.
The gun has a long history in the family.
It was was given to Levi's great-grandfather Robert Buchanan when he was 11.
It was then passed to Levi's grandmother, Mary Neuman, who hunted with it when she was a little girl. Neuman passed the gun along to her grandson.
Mike and Terri Robbins were a little concerned the 4-10 would not pack enough punch to bring down a deer, so they'd bought another gun for Levi to use this fall.
However, Levi and his dad could not sight in the 20-gauge. But Levi hit everything he aimed at with the 4-10, Terri Robbins said.
"It doesn't mess up," Levi said.
A hunter since he was 5 years old, Levi told all of his classmates in the third grade at Temple Christian School in Connersville about bringing home a buck. They were excited, but not many understood.
"Only a couple hunt," Levi said.
Terri said Levi was ecstatic on the Saturday morning of the hunt. He was up at 4 a.m. and confessed to sleeping a couple of hours in the deer stand. When he woke up, he saw two 14-point bucks.
But they were in the next pasture over on his parents' farm in western Union County. That was too far for a good shot.
He then learned the patience necessary to be a hunter.
"I like hunting, because you get to be up high," Levi said. "But the bad thing is you can't talk."
After dropping the deer, father and son headed home for some processing equipment and to tell Terri.
"He came bouncing in about 8:30 and told me he was the one that shot it," she said.
They took the deer to be processed, and the head is being mounted.
For Levi, the best part is that he outdid his dad. Mike took a 6-point buck during bow season. "I beat my dad," Levi said.