Originally Posted by
glew22
Blue....you see...success isn't measured by the size of the rack...it's measured by the age of that deer and the effort that was put in hunting.
Based on what you're suggesting, there's no success in harvesting a matriarch doe. I guess I didn't have a "successful" year by blues standards since I didn't have any antlers with which to measure my success.
Funny. I always though that success was measured by ethics and enjoyment. Never knew that age of the deer was a necessary ingredient. So I guess if you had killed the best buck of your life (that 2.5 year old), you would have had an unsuccessful season? Amazing. But of course he was a "bad quality" deer. I do have to ask...Was it his rack that was bad quality?...Would his chops have just tasted awful?....Or was he diseased or somehow inferior in any other way than his age?