OUTDOOR STORY -- ROSS CARTER HUNTS: Hunting for the 
first time [I shot at it, but missed :02] coming up on Passport to 
Texas Outdoor Stories.

Passport to Texas from Texas Parks and Wildlife 

Ross Carter, from Dickinson, Texas, is -- at fifteen years 
old -- a self-professed outdoorsman 

I've always liked being in the outdoors and shooting guns and 
arrows and fishing and stuff, and I have, you know, my own 
shotgun that one of my uncles gave me. :08

Hunting has been on his "must-do" list for a while. He 
shares what his first trip was like: 

I've wanted to go hunting for a long time. It was just I'd never 
taken the course to get my safety license, so I was real excited.

It was OK. It was the last week of hunting season, we were 
actually up there new year's eve and it was pretty chilly. We'd 
go out in the morning around 6 and sit in the stand until about 
10, and then we would go back out in the evenings until, you 
know, it was dark and we couldn't see anything. 

I never actually got to shoot at a deer. In that county they have 
a limit on the antler spread that if it's not 13 inches from antler 
to antler, it's an illegal deer. They have a lot of small bucks up 
there, so I didn't get to shoot at a deer. But I think on the third 
afternoon I was sitting in the stand and two hogs came across. 
By the time I'd seen 'em, it was just getting into the field and I 
shot at it, but missed. :50

Thanks, Ross. Better luck next hunt.

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That's our show ... with research and writing help from 
Sarah Loden... For Texas Parks and Wildlife ... I'm Cecilia 
Nasti. 






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