Skeet,
Ya, I had read that in BB. It just goes to show that even SERM is starting to face reality. I doubt they would have caved so easily if they weren't already having doubts. Hopefully this will be a catalyst for them to move more into the educating hunters and living with the disease phase of things. Good on GD for starting a movement. Hopefully it doesn't go to his head
Great pics as always JD.
YF, tough luck on the big boy. I know exactly how you feel. Good on ya for getting back at it. Good luck!
In other news, I went out and missed a shot at a big deer last weekend. Moral of the story is ask what distance the borrowed rifle is sighted for.
oh well, I know I missed clean because he was back the next night.
Which brings me to last night. We went back to try for the big guy again even though it was windier that h*ll. luckily the deer need to cross a wide open strip of pasture to get to the bush they stage in before heading for an alfalfa field. With about 1/2 hour left, I passed on a plain jane 4x4 that was a nice deer but just not that interesting. we repositioned a bit for the last 15 minutes and got lucky when a buck emerged following three does. With light fading we conferred and agreed that it was "the buck" as he appeared to have the same characteristics of "the buck" so I leveled off and shot. We backed off for an hour or so to get the flashlights and drop off the guns. We found blood immediately but the trail ran cold after only a few feet. We split up and walked about 50yds apart into the bush in the general direction the buck had taken. Luckily Mat found him within 150yrds. It turns out he was not "The buck" but as you can see from the pictures he has some non-typ stuff going on and a small droptine. Moral of the story: be damn sure the buck in front of you is "the buck" when shooting in low light.
Overall i'm quite pleased with him as character generally impresses me more than score anyway. Once the skull is bleached he'll look pretty good on the wall.
Good luck all, next stop for me will be Sask in late Nov.
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