2020 - Lind harvests 16-point buck
Another Alborn hunter had an opening week to remember
November 24, 2020 • Voyageur Press
Christie Lind harvested an impressive 16-point buck while hunting with her granddaughter, Cailey — and this one will certainly be finding a place on the wall.
Christie said she and Cailey had barely settled into their stand when the action began.
“We made some noise deciding how to sit and where to put the coffee and sandwiches,” Christie recalled. “Five minutes into the hunt, the buck came in.”
For Cailey, seeing the big buck approach made for an exciting introduction to the family’s hunting tradition.
“Can he hear my heartbeat?” she whispered to her grandmother.
Cailey represents the fourth generation of hunters at the Lind family shack, and if family history is any indication, she may have her own successful hunting stories to tell before long. Her mother needed only two years of hunting before harvesting a buck worthy of a wall mount.
Christie harvested her 16-pointer on Nov. 10. The buck was not weighed due to COVID-19 concerns.
It was also a successful opening weekend for the rest of the Lind hunting party, with two additional bucks harvested.
For Christie, however, hunting is a tradition that goes back four decades — and she credits her late father-in-law, Morrie, for getting it started.
Forty years ago, Morrie had Christie climb 35 feet up a white pine to hunt.
“That experience hooked me on hunting!” she said.
Four decades later, Christie is still climbing into the stand, this time with her granddaughter beside her — continuing a family tradition now four generations strong.