We get almost a 3 month deer season for bow hunting.We get one tag.I used to shoot the first decent size deer that came in, it sucked afterwards because there was still most of the season left and you were done, usually in the first week.

After a couple years of tagging out early and being done I decided to wait for a buck.There wasnt a lot of bowhunters around back then as it hadnt caught on yet so there really wasnt anyone to show me what I was doing or tell me if it was right or wrong, certainly wasnt all the info there is today or all the equipment.So actually getting close enough to kill a buck with a bow seemed like a pretty decent challenge.And it was for awhile but after a few years of that I had it figured out down to whereI could kill a buck the first week of season most years and was back where I started, tagged out and sitting at home.

My patience level grew every year and about 5 or 6 years after I started bowhunting I was letting smaller bucks walk past me, not really after a trophy just extending my time in the field, I never actually hunted the rut those first years because I was done early.That year I caught a glimpse of my first decent buck, a gnarly racked non typical 12 pointer.I started hunting him and let all the other deer walk.2 months later on a property a mile and a half from where it started I finally put an arrow in him.I had hunted most of the season, had a blast doing it, and had some really cool stories to tell of things I seen and close encounters where the deer won.

These days I still like to hunt for a good buck, Ive killed a ton of deer since I started and ate a few deer tags in the process.But since that year I can tell you where, when and how every set of antlers I own came from, they all have thier own story, some I persued for months, some I got lucky on, and some fall in between, but they all mean something to me if nobody else