AKElroy
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Opening weekend, I am sitting in the stand, seeing A LOT of deer, but none of the really decent deer that had been hitting my feeder. My lease contract specifies 1 cull, one trophy, one doe. A cull is defined as any buck (spike) or multi lacking brow tines.
I had been watching a poor, 70lb four point since first light, and did not want it. About an hour later, a really big bodied 4 point (maybe 130lbs? big for the hill country) enters the scene. Not seeing a tropy & it nearing 10 am, I decide he's the cull I want. He walks behind a tree, I see movement behind the tree, and I wait for him to come back out. I have not seen the poor 70 lb buck in several minutes, and assume he is gone.
You already know what's coming. He walks around the tree, I glance at the rack & what looks like a fat neck, and being convinced he is the right one, I break the silence with a 2lb trigger on my weather warrior .308. Down he goes.
All excited, I climb down, walk the 165 yrds, and find the 70lb loser I did not want lying in a red puddle. Beautiful.
I love this annonymous forum for this type of confession. Any others feel ready to confess similar stupidity?? I need to know I'm not alone!!
I had been watching a poor, 70lb four point since first light, and did not want it. About an hour later, a really big bodied 4 point (maybe 130lbs? big for the hill country) enters the scene. Not seeing a tropy & it nearing 10 am, I decide he's the cull I want. He walks behind a tree, I see movement behind the tree, and I wait for him to come back out. I have not seen the poor 70 lb buck in several minutes, and assume he is gone.
You already know what's coming. He walks around the tree, I glance at the rack & what looks like a fat neck, and being convinced he is the right one, I break the silence with a 2lb trigger on my weather warrior .308. Down he goes.
All excited, I climb down, walk the 165 yrds, and find the 70lb loser I did not want lying in a red puddle. Beautiful.
I love this annonymous forum for this type of confession. Any others feel ready to confess similar stupidity?? I need to know I'm not alone!!