Rob,

November 11th, 2001. I shot a big doe out from in front of a nice 8-pointer, and used my only either-sex tag on her. I' d been watching that doe all day long and decided that if she offered a shot in the last 15 minutes of light I' d take her. She did, so I did.

Despite the fact that the 8-pointer would have looked very nice on my wall, and would have been my biggest buck to date, I had no regrets.

I should probably mention that I don' t consider myself a meat-hunter or a trophy-hunter. After seeing those terms get bounced around for the past several years, I still have no idea what they really mean. I guess I just figure I' m a bowhunter.