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Deerslayer
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......as it turned out, I did get a little trigger happy. I had just entered the "zone", and I immediately spotted a super nice lope......maybe even booner.
He looked as though he had us busted at 100 yards walking a rise.......but he eased over the other side un-phased. I told her I had him. As we walked toward the edge of the rise.........4 @ssholes began hollering in the distance from where we had come. They called me over, so I went to see what the he!! was going on. The guy said he was an outfitter thus had the right to check our license........I wasn't so sure and was slow to cooperate. After much discussion, I figured no harm in showing him just in case he was right, and I was axious to go after the buck we left some 20 minutes earlier. After the strange incident, we rushed back to the edge of the rise.......and after a quick scan, I picked up 3 does and the buck, .........or so I thought. I immediately sent a round through his lower lungs, and while he was nice, I had a funny feeling. As I had worried, he was not the same buck, but rather the buck I sought after was topping a rise some 400 yards away.
It was definitely anti-climatic, and I felt used,... really. We continued on for several hours surveying the lopes in the area, and watched a sure-nuff booner kick tail on two dandy bucks for about an hour.........ever guarding his heram of 10 or so girlfriends........he had the life for sure, lucky dog!
............and so it goes with things oflife and death,.........once you pull the trigger, there is no turning back.......regretably......
I'll try and get a pic up tomorrow.
DS
<FONT COLOR="#800080" SIZE="1">[ 09 October 2001 18:24: Message edited by: Deerslayer ]</font>
He looked as though he had us busted at 100 yards walking a rise.......but he eased over the other side un-phased. I told her I had him. As we walked toward the edge of the rise.........4 @ssholes began hollering in the distance from where we had come. They called me over, so I went to see what the he!! was going on. The guy said he was an outfitter thus had the right to check our license........I wasn't so sure and was slow to cooperate. After much discussion, I figured no harm in showing him just in case he was right, and I was axious to go after the buck we left some 20 minutes earlier. After the strange incident, we rushed back to the edge of the rise.......and after a quick scan, I picked up 3 does and the buck, .........or so I thought. I immediately sent a round through his lower lungs, and while he was nice, I had a funny feeling. As I had worried, he was not the same buck, but rather the buck I sought after was topping a rise some 400 yards away.
It was definitely anti-climatic, and I felt used,... really. We continued on for several hours surveying the lopes in the area, and watched a sure-nuff booner kick tail on two dandy bucks for about an hour.........ever guarding his heram of 10 or so girlfriends........he had the life for sure, lucky dog!
............and so it goes with things oflife and death,.........once you pull the trigger, there is no turning back.......regretably......
I'll try and get a pic up tomorrow.
DS
<FONT COLOR="#800080" SIZE="1">[ 09 October 2001 18:24: Message edited by: Deerslayer ]</font>