John “JB” Kristin, 10, of Mount Greenwood used a crossbow to take his first deer on a Cook County farm.
His dad, John Kristin, said his son “just turned 10 and just completed his hunter safety course this September at the Will County Farm Bureau.”
They went hunting the morning of Oct. 16.
“We got in the woods at 6:30 a.m. and not an hour later , I hear with a serious yet shaky voice, “Dad, there’s a deer coming right to us,’ “ Kristin emailed. “I look up and see a nice doe coming down the trail.”
She came from behind a mature oak, quartering to them.
“He asks, `Can I shoot?,’ “ Kristin emailed. “I told him, `When you are ready.’ He squeezed off his shot , and thwack! “I got her I got her dad.” We had a high five and a hug.”
They went home and brought back brother Logan Ortiz. With the help of an overhead vulture, they found the deer 40 yards away in tall vegetation.
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