Originally Posted by
bronko22000
Nice deer but frankly I wouldn't call it hunting..sorry. Going out for a smoke and seeing a buck in your neighbor's field, grabbing your rifle and shooting it??? then going to finish the job with your shotgun!?! It was just pure luck that you shot him and possibly not even legally considering how close you were to occupied dwellings. Go ahead and mount him if you want but....if that's the case I could have mounted a nice buck I got with my wife's Chrysler Sebring a couple years ago. Same thing IMO.
I shot a buck that big this year but after putting in 126 hours in my tree stand. Now that buck was hunted as he was one of the 2 I was after all season.
If I hit a very big buck with my car, and money was not a problem, yup I would have him mounted too.... Its not the same thing. It may not have been taken with a gun, but it still would be the biggest buck I ever got, no matter now it was taken... It would be a hell of a conversation piece when friends saw it hanging on my wall.... lol.... I put every buck I have ever shot on the wall, no matter how small, I proudly display all my buck kills. This one will be my first full mount, and not just the antlers, and I will be proud of him. You cant change that... Everyone is proud of different things they do in life, this is one I am very proud off.......
