First he popped the question, then he popped a doe — all within seconds. In December, Colton Adams and his girlfriend Karley Koger of West Monroe, Lousiana were hunting on family land. After sitting in a cold box blind for several hours without any deer sightings, they stepped out of the blind and Adams dropped to one knee. Seconds after Koger says “yes,” she points out a doe a hundred yards away standing broadside in the shooting lane. Adams raises his rifle, takes a shot and the doe crumples, all perfectly captured on video which he posted to his Instagram on Jan. 24.
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Adams told Outdoor Life that he didn’t have the proposal perfectly planned out. He wanted Koger to think it was a normal Saturday in the deer blind. After sitting in the blind for hours and assuming she was probably cold and tired, they stepped out into the shooting lane where Adams decided to propose. He had his phone set up in the blind pointing toward the clearing like he were recording a hunt, but Koger didn’t know they were being recorded. When it came time to propose, Adams couldn’t quite get the words out. “She told me I was acting weird and I just reached into my bibs pocket and pulled out the box. I couldn’t say anything. I just looked at her,” said Adams.
Koger’s excited gasp is what Adams thinks may have spooked the deer out of the woods. “She was the one who pointed it out. After she hugged me, she said, ‘Oh my gosh, Colton. There’s a deer right there.’ She knew what to do. She stepped back and covered her ears,” said Adams.
“She wasn’t mad that I shot a deer 10 seconds after I asked her to marry me,” Adams says. “I feel like that’s a telltale. Any girl that’s okay with her proposal being interrupted by a shot at a deer, well, that’s about as big a green flag as you can get.”
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