When I shot my first ever deer.....my buck I entered into this year's contest.....Gary (Germ), Rob/PA, Mantis Mayer, DukeMichaels....etc.....ALL veteran deer hunters.....went nuts. They were congratulating me from every direction. It was a little overwhelming.I didn't understand it. It wasn't that my deer was a huge deer, either. This was genuine, and the best example of NON-jealousy I could cite.

THAT is what I thought the deer hunting community was all about. That's what I assumed deer camps were all about. That's what I assumed this forum was all about.

Things aren't always as they seem.

I had good teachers.....my teammates. I have NO jealousy towards another man's/woman's deer.

OK, OK.....ladybuckhntr is the exception!