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Yesterday I let this guy walk, to grow another year...
"...the designer of the .270 Ingwe cartridge!..."
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looks to me, he's asking you the same. For me if you plan to hunt that spot next season then you done good. If not then yeah you're getting old....BUT maybe good or better! Either way great spot!!
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Go Nats!!!!
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Well, at least you're young enough to be able to wait until next year.
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He's the best looking deer I've seen on the lease. So maybe I'll let him breed a few does
"...the designer of the .270 Ingwe cartridge!..."
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Well just the fact that you "could have..." should mean something. Nice pic.
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Looks like a young deer. He won't be that tame next year, I'll bet.
You may never get a shot at him when he's bigger....... but if you shoot him this year, it's for damn sure certain that you won't.
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I'd say, good for you... ked
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Some of the shots that we don't take are just as meaningful as many of the shots that we do take.
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Some of the shots that we don't take are just as meaningful as many of the shots that we do take. there is a lot of wisdom in that statement....
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That's pretty touching Tex . . .
Thanks for sharing.
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Yesterday I let this guy walk, to grow another year... Let's hope he makes it and isn't seen by another guy. Nice to let him go.
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I bet you'd have felt a bit younger if that buck had sported about a 9" drop tine...
Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla!
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Patrick, in the late 'nineties I was sitting under an old post oak tree that had limbs drooping all the way to the ground, making a natural blind. I was watching one of my box hog traps with corn scattered out in front of it and soured corn inside. One by one, young bucks came and fed on the corn a good while. I believed all of them to be 1 1/2 Y O with small 8 point racks.... except one. He appeared to be the same age as the others, but he behaved differently. He never came fully out of the brush but I could see he had a ten point frame and appeared to have some trash points. I figured I'd see him again next year, but I didn't. Nor the next year or the next. I forgot about him, figuring one of my neighbors killed him. But I saw signs of a good buck each year. Then, in 1999, about 150 yards from where I had sat watching the young bucks that day, and after finding signs of a big deer, I threw up an elevated box blind. And killed this deer: 174 gross, 163 6/8 net NT, with 18 score-able points. At the base of his right antler, on the rear, there is an "L" point with each leg of the "L" being about an inch. For several years, someone would kill a young buck with that "L" point in the same place, but often only an 8 point. In spite of all my "schooling", my young lease partners just couldn't pass up young 10 points, and the last one killed in that pasture that had the "L" point was only 1 1/2 YO. He had an inside spread of about 15 inches and 15 points. That was 3 years ago. I hope you are rewarded for doing the right thing.
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Another Viewpoint, maybe Patrick was just not hungry enough. miles
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true dat. I did take a cull buck on opening weekend. Oh yeah, after all the deer left Saturday evening, a group of jake turkeys wandered in. I'm having wild turkey for Thanksgiving
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Look at it as "reaching maturity," not getting old. Either way, I think that you made the correct call.
Ben
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The first time I realized I was getting old, it had nothing to do with a deer. I broke one of the golden rules.
I trusted one fart too many.
I knew that day, I was officially old.
"The number one problem with America is, a whole lot of people need shot, and nobody is shooting them." -Master Chief Hershel Davis
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Some of the shots that we don't take are just as meaningful as many of the shots that we do take. Very well said. I am 75 now and have not taken a shot at big game for about 3 years. I miss it a little but enjoy seeing them in the wild.
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The first time I realized I was getting old, it had nothing to do with a deer. I broke one of the golden rules.
I trusted one fart too many.
I knew that day, I was officially old. Hmmmm???? How many of us can relate to this???????????????????? Nice deer.....hope you see him again.
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