family vs hunting....arrrghhh!
12-23-2004, 07:26 PM
#1
Thread Starter
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: South Bend IN
Posts: 296
family vs hunting....arrrghhh!
I was on my way to my blind at 3 pm today when I called home to check in and my daughter asked me to work out with her. She said she couldn't go later, so I did the good Dad thing and went home. Then her boyfriend calls and says he will go with her so I get dressed again and head to my blind and get there at 4:30.
Lo and behold, there in the snow 10-15 yards from my blind, are the 4-4.5 inch prints of Mr. Big!! He is traveling solo. Lots of tracks too, broadside, quartering away, etc. He had been digging in the snow for the corn I had left. Based on the continous snowfall, these prints are about half an hour old. This is the buck that I have been trying to get for almost 3 months!!! I stay in the blind until dark and see nothing else.
Damn, I love my family but sometimes I could just scream......
Lo and behold, there in the snow 10-15 yards from my blind, are the 4-4.5 inch prints of Mr. Big!! He is traveling solo. Lots of tracks too, broadside, quartering away, etc. He had been digging in the snow for the corn I had left. Based on the continous snowfall, these prints are about half an hour old. This is the buck that I have been trying to get for almost 3 months!!! I stay in the blind until dark and see nothing else.
Damn, I love my family but sometimes I could just scream......
12-23-2004, 09:51 PM
#4
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: ND
Posts: 1,627
RE: family vs hunting....arrrghhh!
Actually the post wasn't a downer for me. Got a good chuckle out of it as most have experience the same thing trying to balance family and hunting time. Feel your pain. Hope you get another chance at the big one.
Tim
Tim
12-24-2004, 02:01 AM
#7
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Idaho
Posts: 2,072
RE: family vs hunting....arrrghhh!
It was probably just a big ole club footed doe. If you say it enough times you will begin to beleive it................................................ .................................................. ...........................................Are you feeling better yet?
12-24-2004, 06:31 AM
#9
Fork Horn
Join Date: Aug 2003
Posts: 225
RE: family vs hunting....arrrghhh!
Seems to me you made the right choice, family first hunting second.......the deer will always be there, and if you don't get that buck he passed on his genes and you'll get a chance at his offspring in a few years.
12-24-2004, 06:46 AM
#10
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: creemore Ontario Canada
Posts: 5,525
RE: family vs hunting....arrrghhh!
That's exactly how your priorities are supposed to go ,so this just make's you a normal dad .You can alway's make time for hunting but as the kid's get older and your seeing less and less of them you'll look back and be glad you took this time to spend with them. I've also had this problem with taking a few extra minutes for the kid's just to find that a nice buck had passed by my stand during the period of time that I usually would have been on stand.
nubo
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