Greybeard
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' Been huntin' mostly Northeast Texas for the last couple of years with a Buddy who grew up in Alaska. During that time, we've heard comments out of him such as "I've got more meat off of a FISH than there is on these Texas deer."
Well, yesterday we took him out to West Texas for a little quail hunting. At one point while navigating through the mesquite trees, he suddenly yelled, "There's a deer!" and jogged over toward me for a better look just before it vanished in the distance. At which point he stopped and realized. "That was not a deer, that was a rabbit!" Holding his hand about 4' feet off the gound, he said, it's EARS must have been THIS tall. And was somewhat embarrassed when we re-welcomed him to Tejas - and jackrabbit country!
He wound up shooting a couple of them and decided they were not worth it when I told him the meat was pretty tough - and he learned they were rather heavy to carry, especially two of 'em.
Maybe now he'll back off some about the size of the Central Texas deer.
Well, yesterday we took him out to West Texas for a little quail hunting. At one point while navigating through the mesquite trees, he suddenly yelled, "There's a deer!" and jogged over toward me for a better look just before it vanished in the distance. At which point he stopped and realized. "That was not a deer, that was a rabbit!" Holding his hand about 4' feet off the gound, he said, it's EARS must have been THIS tall. And was somewhat embarrassed when we re-welcomed him to Tejas - and jackrabbit country!
He wound up shooting a couple of them and decided they were not worth it when I told him the meat was pretty tough - and he learned they were rather heavy to carry, especially two of 'em.
Maybe now he'll back off some about the size of the Central Texas deer.