HELENA - 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.

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

Watch to learn more about this year's youth hunt: Young Montana hunters bag deer during the annual youth hunt

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 hunt — Gatlin harvested his first buck with his grandpa beside him.

April Vercoe

“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

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