Originally Posted by
Topgun 3006
Rockport---I saw your point and that's why I made that post. Your reply is exactly what my Dad taught me 60 years ago and if I never shoot a thing the rest of my life I've had a ball doing it. In fact, the last few years helping others, especially mentoring kids to get them started, has been much more fulfilling than pulling the trigger myself.
Yes, I still have the video of that buck, but the videocam is an old one with the small film cartridge that I would have to transfer onto a disc and then because I'm not computer literate would have to do other stuff to get it up onto a website that I would have no idea how to do. All I can tell you is that he was a huge, perfectly symmetrical 10 with a great spread and main matching tines that went way up and barely in to make the perfect basket rack that I love to see. He was so perfect I'd bet he wouldn't have had deducts totaling 3"! He was probably the "once in a lifetime" buck for me and I let him go!!!
PS: Loved you reason for editing your post, LOL!
Ive got the same problem. I used to film some before I quit because I felt like it was distracting me and all my films are on 8mm tapes or just lost.
I'm going to take my daughter next year. She will have just turned 6 I can't wait. I told my wife this year that this might be the last year my hunting is about me.
I just took my wifes nephew a few weeks ago for our 2nd shotgun season. He is 11 and has killed doe but no bucks yet and I botched it for us. I got us on a nice one the first morning but I set us up to catch him coming into his bed and he was already there when we got there. Just as it got daylight he snuck out of his bed and got downwind out of range and we had to let him go. The weather turned on us and we didn't see deer the rest of the season. There was a doe that stayed in the bed and we could have shot but we chose to hold off and went home empty handed. He understood that is the price you pay to stick with it. He wants to kill a good buck and I'm glad he understood that aint easy and you have to stick with it. I'm going to take him again for our winter antlerless only hunt.
Unfortunately Ive made the mistake of telling the other guy that hunts on the property he can hunt in my stand after I fill my tag and he just ruins the spot by the time second season comes around so I was just pulling guess work when I took the nephew somewhere I hadn't hunted and I guessed just a little wrong.