Teen age daughters!!!! Into the strangest stuff I tell ya...

[red pony]

Your daughter is great!  I only wish the good lord had given me a daughter.  Cherish these moments.

[Earl Jeff]

Some of Gods greatest blessings Dave. Make sure you thank him. Take care and God Bless.

[Gtownviking]

No one told me what it would be like when I married my wife who has a (then) 13 year old daughter.  I had no clue what I was walking into.  Had no clue my heart had room for so much more love.  Tis a cool and VERY SCARY thing to be a teenage daughter's dad!

My daughter does the same thing with her camera.

Congrats sir and be proud, very proud.  Heritage is a good thing.

BTW, the picture with the arrow "pointing" at the camera is by far the coolest shot.

[MCNSC]

[Craig Schoneberg]

Thanks for sharing Dave.  Don't think you will have to worry much when the boys start coming around.  The longbows seem to keep them in line.  I watched my 15 year old daughter one day while shooting in the backyard with a boyfriend ( a compound shooter by the way)  I could see he was trying to tell her how she should be shooting.  About that time the longbow whipped around, using it as a 'pointer' she pointed to a spot 20 ft away, at which time he walked away like a little whipped pup and sat down.  She continued shooting 'her way', and to this day still out shoots her dad.  Your story brought back some great memories.
Craig

[V I Archer]

Congrats Dave.  Thinking back to when I was 15 (uggh, 14 years ago!) I'd count your daughter as a looker for sure.  That thought makes me reflect furhter - I'm a hard core traditionalist.  I have never harvested an animal with anything other my longbow save for a few ducks by way of scattergun, but I can honestly say having only married 6 weeks ago, if I have a daughter she is wearing nothing but turtlenecks and sweatpants until she is 35 and the first time she brings a boy thorugh my front door he will be greeted by the sight of me practicing reloads with my Mossberg!  

Best of luck to you Dave, you may want to look into to that acerage and backhoe suggestion.

[seabass]

you did good buddy.the title of your post had me scared for a moment.i have seen alot of buddies daughters go down the wrong paths.it looks like you gave your daughter a good map.good for you,i think she will turn out fine.good luck this season to you and your daughter,steve

[BigStriper]

Dave it looks like you have done Well raising your Kids,those are some Neat Pictures your Dauther and Friend took,Good Luck to You and Your Dauther this Season,and many more,

Kurt

[Autumnarcher]

Great pics. She and her friend have a great eye for the camera, a talent that eludes many of us.
Its one thingto snap a picture, but those are pics that jump out at you when you look at them.
Fantastic pics, and congrats on a well raised young lady. You're a blessed man.

[Huntnjim]

She looks like she means it. Thanks for passing it on Dave.

[storm5]

You are a lucky man. Tell her good luck with the bow this season

[IndianaBowman]

Congrats Dave!

I'm typing this while sitting in a cabin at bear camp with my 16 year old daughter. She is sleeping and I'm trying to catch up on some things. We were supposed to have been going home by now, but she has hunted really hard and we haven't seen a bear yet. She just doesn't want to give up. You'd think she'd be discouraged and want to get back to her friends, Facebook, etc., but she is determined to get a bear.

Like you said, daughters do the darndest things.

Again, you have every right to be proud and happy.

[ber643]

IB, tell your daughter she has the right idea (not giving up). I have a friend ("MP", on here) in WV who has two teen age daughters - both have got their bears - but he's still trying - LOL (and he's a good hunter, another friend, Lonnie, from there tells me - all great folks too.)

LOL to V I Archer - He doesn't know the half of it yet, though - I'd like to be around "then" to say, "Yeh, how'd that work out for ya, buddy?"      
Because we raise them to be self-sustaining units, our precious daughters wind up with minds of their own, for sure, and tendencies to make their own bad/good choices - God bless them all.

[LITTLEBIGMAN]

Neytiri you have competition in the woods now!

[TommyBoy]

Dave,

You best be cleaning the shotgun when the boys come a'callin!!  It's good to see a young lady with some depth in the age of Paris Hilton.

[KEG]

Dave, you did good!

[Froggy]

Dave,
 My teenage son said he wished we lived in Missouri... Tell her a Georgia boy has a crush on her... Great pics, I agree with Tommyboy, nice to see that in a young lady nowadays !!. Here's a pic of my son a couple weeks back at the Bristol Nascar races I took him to.. I too am very proud of the young man he has become.. Caught him offguard with this pic.
 

[NYStickhunter]

You Should be really proud of Her1 My daughter who got me back to shooting Traditional. it is so hard today to raise kids between the media and lax parenting of our kids friends.

[Dave Bulla]

Hey guys, thanks again for all the positive comments.  Though you may be giving Lindsey a "big head".  She's a good kid and sure seems to have a creative knack for pictures.

Here are a couple more from earlier this summer.

Another one of those "self taken" types.  I tried it once and it's harder than you'd think.
 

Here's one I really liked.  Cool light.
 

This one looks really neat when you see it on full screen.  She photoshopped it a bit for a blurred effect on the background I think.
 

And again with an odd angle and lighting that I'd not have thought of...
 

And a last one for now.  More photoshop editing for a cool effect.
 

[Dave Bulla]

By the way, since many of you commented on the quality of the pictures, the camera is a little Cannon digital that I got at a yard sale for $5 so I could carry a cheap camera while hunting.  Not sure of the model but it's only about 3 or 4 megapixels.

Talk about making due with what you've got eh?