RE: "selling out"
 

I feel I sold myself out this last year bear hunting, specially this last year when I knew I had 400+lb and 500+lb bear at a few of our baits. All of these were easily P@Y and some probably B@C. I did get my bear last fall but it was not the bear that I was targeting. So yes I sold out, I don't have the time to keep driving 4 hours up north every weekend to hunt these critters plus the expense of gas would kick my butt! All in all I was still very very happy with my 135lb bear. If I lived closer I wouldn't shoot any bear that I wasn't targeting. With the whitetails I don't sell out I don't think. I won't shoot a little buck because I can't get the one I'm after. How ever I will shoot a different P@Y buck if he gives me the opportunity. Maybe thats selling out too. Is it?

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Hell no!....lol:D

Only you can answer that Schultzy.....and it shouldn't matter what anyone else thinks.;)

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I'm not quite as focused as some. If another comes by and is big enough to make mutter "OMG" then he'll do, and I don't think I'll have any regrets. I hope.:)

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This is exactly how I roll[8D]

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This last year was an awesome year according to our trail camera's. I know we had 4 and possibly 5 bucks that were bookers on camera. The booker I got this last year we never seen on camera, I wasn't after him and almost didn't shoot him. I had him at 12 yards for over a half an hour and finally decided I was going to take him which I damn near almost screwed up when my stand pinged when I drew on him.[:@] I had a nice 10 point on camera that was in that 150" range, that was the one I was after. The funny thing is I only hunted 3 times this last year. I started hunting the pre rut on October 19th. I skipped a few days and went back out on the 23rd and possibly seen the same buck I later got but he wouldn't come in any closer then 35 yards. The next evening on the 24th I brought the rattling antlers and rattled in the buck I ended up shooting. I feel as If I didn't even earn the buck I got last year being I only hunted 3 times. Weather I sold myself short or not I enjoyed the experience I had with him in the woods. Thanks for the kind words Jeff.

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No way you could have sold your self short, with that sentance added. Congrats on all the success, Steve.

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I am not a huge target "one" and go for him. I tend to pick areas with a lot of traffic moving through.

RE: "selling out"
 

I say if you are not going to be satisfied or pleased with what you shoot there is an easy way to remedy that,don't shoot.
Having said that I have shot animals that I wished I hadn't in the past and I did feel like I sold out or gave in.Honestly I feel like the animal deserves better.Either be thankful and satisfied or proud or don't kill.I believe it to be part of the evolution of many hunters.

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I've never targeted a specific animal until I shot at it.

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I always like to scout 2 or 3 good bucksto hunt, but ifsomething different walks past I wont think twice about pulling the trigger. I hunted a perticuler buck hard in 06 never had a shotandended uptaking a slightly smaller buck.I was very happy untill I walked back to the truck and kicked theSOB upno more then 70 yards from where I parked. It all worked out in the end though I gothim this year with the smokepole.