FIELD IN THE FIELD

Windham Youth Gets Deer on Opening Day

October 27, 2007

By David Field

Just a week after his 13^th birthday, Cody Dube shot his first deer from just over 200 yards away with his brand new Savage .270 rifle.  Once again, the evidence is mounting that deer just don’t lie down when it is raining.  It is early in the season and deer haven’t converted to being totally nocturnal.

Cody’s dad, Randy, told me that he has been hunting the past 20 years with friend Jeff Jamison.  Since Cody didn’t have soccer and had been selected for a doe permit in District 21, the two men included Cody and Jeff’s son Josh in their usual opening day adventure.  “It’s been a tradition to hunt Newfield opening day.” 

They started the day at 6:15 and worked their way to tree stands.  At 10:21, coincidentally translates to his birth day, Randy and Cody saw a doe moving.  Just before, Randy had told Cody that to be successful, “you have to be patient, put in your time, as you never know when you might see one”.  A half hour before that, the pair had seen 31 Wild Turkeys.  Cody squeezed off a shot that hit squarely behind the front shoulder and dropped the 120 pound doe.  Jeff Jamison did the Dube’s a favor and field dressed the animal.  Then the real work started. They had to drag the doe some three quarters of a mile to the truck, “all uphill, no kidding”, according to Randy.

How excited was Cody?  As Randy told me, “Definitely excited…but he has a cool hand Luke personality and isn’t the type to jump up and down and get crazy”.

After the deer was stowed, the Dube’s proceeded to the tagging station in nearby Limington.  Randy is having a local Windham resident butcher the deer for him.  The opening meal will be back strap steaks.  Besides hunting, Cody enjoys baseball and soccer.  Cody is an eighth grader at Windham Middle School.  Congratulations Cody!!

Windham resident David Field is an avid hunter. He has agreed to share his adventures with us right here on Maine Sports Pages.

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