Right on brother - thanks for the laugh!

I will note, in all seriousness, the last handful of years, I find myself spending less time trying to be "the hunter we watch on the DVD"
or "the hunter in the magazine article". I believe that this actually hurt me throughout my earlier years of hunting and to be the "hunter that I am".
If this makes sense? The major thing it did for me, which was a good thing, was to keep me motivated and hoping...

You have been very lucky/blessed to be brought up in a hunting family where the apple didn't fall far from the tree!
By the sounds of you and your brother's sightings this past season, you're further ahead than most of us.
Just pickier than I, as 125" buck is dead in my woods...