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Personal Narrative: My First Deer Hunting

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This story is about hunting season and how I got my first my first deer. Last year it was getting near hunting season and my grandpa had offered to take me and my sister up north to go deer hunting during the season I immediately said yes because hunting has always been a big part of my life and I love to go hunting whenever I can. The gun that I was going to be using was savage that was the brand and the caliber was 7mm which was a very powerful bullet me and my grandpa call it the DTR gun because it means Dead Right There so when we shoot the deer it’s not going to go anywhere because when people use crossbows and lower calibers gun the deers tend to run at least 100 yards away from being shot before dying. So when we got up north up to the
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