Tyler Siech

I started getting involved in the outdoors when my dad introduced me to it at the age of five. When I got a little older, he started taking me on some of his hunts. It felt like the outdoors was a part of me, and it helped me relax and enjoy myself. I liked to spend time with my dad and my grandpa. I will never forget passing the hunter safety test when I was 12. I told my dad that he just got a new hunting partner.

To this date I have a doe and a buck and two tom turkeys weighing 26 lbs each that are extremely important to me. The doe was my first deer I ever shot and the first with my bow. The buck on the other hand, has a little bigger story. I got home from school one day, and my dad was all dressed up and ready to go hunting. He told me to hurry up or he was leaving without me. We got out to the land an hour late, so I went to a stand that was close and looking over a food plot my dad put in. My dad went a little further in the swamp about 300 yards away.

It was 30 minutes till dark and my dad and I were talking on our radios, when I saw a deer coming down a trail. It was a nice buck, so I told my dad that I couldn’t talk anymore because I had a buck coming. I ended up taking the buck with a bow about 20 yards away. The deer ran about 75 yards into the swamp and fell over. The best thing about this hunt, it was on my dad’s birthday. The buck ended up grossing 132 inches P&Y for my first buck, it was definitely something to remember.

I am currently a freshman in high-school and I am involved in golf and and cross-country. My other hobbies instead of hunting include: fishing, shed hunting, turkey hunting and morel mushroom hunting. But most of all, I love spending time with my family in the outdoors whenever I can. If it wasn’t for them I wouldn’t be able to do all of the things I like.