For many youngsters, the youth deer only hunt is the most exciting two days of the year.

I got super excited, so I shot it, Gatlin Vercoe said.

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This year, the youth hunt happened on October 16 and 17, and its for kids ages 10 to 15.

Ten-year-old Gatlin Vercoe was one of the youth hunters in the field this year.

It is a family tradition, and I wanted to get meat and hang something on the wall, he said.

He had a successful first huntGatlin harvested his first buck with his grandpa beside him.

It was a 4 by 4 and was pretty heavy, and we had to drag it out of a little canyon piece, Gatlin said.

The hunt is open to legally licensed 12 to 15-year-olds who have completed hunter education and are joined by a non-hunting adult and properly licensed apprentice hunters

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