Weston Martin, a 19-year-old college student from the Terre Hill area, had no classes on the opening day of Pennsylvania's buck firearms season.
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His brothers, Blake, 13, who attends Garden Spot Middle School, and Garth, 16, who goes to Garden Spot High School, were excused from basketball practice for one day.
Just one day out of the season to get a buck. Just a buck as the family camp they hunt is in Fulton County, this year designated by the Pennsylvania Game Commission as bucks-only for the first week of the season.
What are the chances three siblings hunting close to each other would all get bucks on the same day?
Obviously not impossible, as all three did.
Blake, the youngest sibling, had gotten his first deer, a doe, last season.
At 8:30 a.m. on opening day, he downed a seven-pointer. An hour later, Weston downed a six-pointer. He dragged his back to camp to declare his first-in-camp success, only to be greeted by Blake, already basking by the gas fireplace.
Garth had to wait until evening to score on his six-pointer. "He was glad he got one because his brothers ribbed him pretty good," laughs the boys' proud mother, Barbara Martin.
The boys' father, Michael, has not yet gotten a buck at camp.
The three sons also hunted together last year but Blake's doe was the only deer taken.
"They were just beside themselves," Barb Martin said of her sons. "They put photos of their deer on Facebook to show friends."
Their dad always made sure the boys got to deer camp on opening day. "It's a good family time and a fun family day," says Barb Martin.
Blake and Garth's basketball coaches did make one provision when they let their charges miss practice: They had to share some venison jerky if they were successful.
Coaches, the deer are at the butcher.
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