Don't want to spend too much time patting yourself on the back for a job well done 25 years ago. Although I still have a record book archery mule deer.....
Sorry, I just had to laugh at these two together.
Some are truly special, the trick is looking forward all you can, while recognizing the really special ones from before. Not all of them are special, or worthy of mounting.
But it's kinda like fishing, which is only fun on one end of the line.
