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ORIGINAL: Jack Ryan
ORIGINAL: btomlin
My best friend is a guide/outfitter and I know he has most of the mature animals NAMED. We know them inside out because we are constantly filming them, gamecaming them, scouting them, planting food for them, etc. When one of his hunters tags one it is very exciting, because we have worked so hard. We actually "killed" that animal, but didn't loose the arrow is all....so yeah, as a "guide's assistant" it is just as exciting as when you tag a big one yourself!!!!!
I love this. It desearves to be framed or tattoed to every head hanging in some lawyer hunter wanna be out there's office. Straight from a guide himself, I don't think I could give a better description myself of exactly what I feel when I see one of those rich buy a buck bozo's led around by the hand until a guide says "stand here", "shoot there", "I'll go get the truck and load it for you."
You are absolutely right! Their superiority complex is so unfounded. I would love to ask some of these guys to tag along and actually watch them try to find a deer on their own.As for calling Brittingham's bucka mutant, [:-]you're right. And that is NOT a good thing! It is nothing special though, unless he was to gain those proportions in the wild, as some do--without all the 'help' some hunters seem to feel they have to supply! Start spending less time on a tractor and more time scouting and learning how to hunt. Not everybody wants to or has the money, time, and oppurtunity to produce their own 'trophy'. And some people wouldn't want to if they did!