RE: An Honest Trophy elk and deer?
I have shot many nice animals and have several on the wall, but let me tell you what my greatest trophy is. My dad and I went hunting back in the 80's when I was a kid, he shot a nice rooster that took wing just behind our house, he was thrilled as at the time in that area pheasants were pretty rare. I kept the tail feathers in a Pepsi bottle for years, then, about ten years after that, I killed my first bird in the exact same area, I kept those feathers too. Sitting on my desk in my office against the wall is a vase, which contains the featherslast pheasant my dad ever shot, and the first one I ever did. My dad passed on years ago, but the memories never did. Of all my trophies, this vase with tail feathers is my favorite one. When my son shoots his first bird, in will go the feathers, and three generations of hunters will be summed up in one little vase, in my book, that is a real trophy.