10-29-2003, 02:17 AM
I wasn't going to shoot anything this year but a good buck. After missing a couple during the archery and muzzleloader hunt I missed two decent 4 points and passed up many more average 3's and 4's. A 2 point was to easy to find and kill. I like to be in the outdoors more then killing a buck or wild game. I was planning on ending my last year of the dedicated program early with anything better then a two point, but my brother already got the meat for the freezer. So I didn't have any reason to kill something other then a book buck.
The last weekend of the rifle hunt I seen a bunch of small bucks and passed them all up. Later, Rick wanted the meat so we found those small bucks and nailed a good control buck. Every year Rick always runs out of meat before spring hits, so this should last him a little longer.
The best part of this hunts wasn't the huge buck my brother killed or the couple of 130 bucks all my friends ended up taging. It was the camping with good friends and family. My other brother finally started hunting again after a 5 year break and that was fun to show him a couple trick's.
The worst part was how many idiots are bow hunting and don't have a clue to what they are doing. Or the cheap bows they buy just before the hunts starts and expect to make a clean kill with something they can't even shoot straight. Or all the stories I heard about wounded bucks that were left to rot or wounded so bad even if they do live they'll end up dead during winter.
I'll post the pictures of the bucks later this week.
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The last weekend of the rifle hunt I seen a bunch of small bucks and passed them all up. Later, Rick wanted the meat so we found those small bucks and nailed a good control buck. Every year Rick always runs out of meat before spring hits, so this should last him a little longer.
The best part of this hunts wasn't the huge buck my brother killed or the couple of 130 bucks all my friends ended up taging. It was the camping with good friends and family. My other brother finally started hunting again after a 5 year break and that was fun to show him a couple trick's.
The worst part was how many idiots are bow hunting and don't have a clue to what they are doing. Or the cheap bows they buy just before the hunts starts and expect to make a clean kill with something they can't even shoot straight. Or all the stories I heard about wounded bucks that were left to rot or wounded so bad even if they do live they'll end up dead during winter.
I'll post the pictures of the bucks later this week.
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