This year has been a grind with warm temps and very little food on or directly around my property. I've passed up a half dozen yearlings and a few does, but with bow season winding down I figured I better take this gimme 15 yd shot this morning. Last years buck made it 25 yds. This one made a 200 yd death sprint but was probably dead inside 20 seconds. I gave him an hour before I took up the track and it took me another hour to find him tracking across an open goldenrod field. He was stiff when I found him.
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They say everything happens for a reason.
For me that reason is usually because I've made some bad decisions that I need to pay for.