I have never scored any of my bucks .... I decide about 5 seconds before the shot ... It's nice to see and hunt a monster , but it is not what keeps me going !
Just being outdoors is " My Juice "
I have 3 tags this season ... will fill them all before Dec 31st ... hope to get a monster ( saw one yesterday ) .... but if an excellent rattling or grunt sequence pulls in a lesser buck , he will be the end to an exciting outing .
I understand the let the " younger bucks walk " routine , but in our neck of the woods that has few monsters and many hunters = most of the time you are letting them walk to the next hunter that will iron them out ...
Bottom line is ... enjoy your time outdoors , set your own goals and don't let anybody make you think you are less a hunter because you haven't harvested a large racked monster ! ....
Any whitetail harvested with archery tackle is a trophy in my mind !
I passed the young 7 point in this sequence a few years back because I had seen a 9 point piebald on the same property ... the 7 point provided me with an excellent photo squence and cool photo journal entry ... but he got ironed out by another hunter a few days later ...
To this day , I have never seen or heard of a harvest of the 9 point piebald ... always curious of his where abouts ?
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See Ya. ... R.J. > " Remember , Trophies are measured by the time and energy expended to get them , not the size or quantity of the quarry "