In only going after the truly largest animals, we as trophy hunters make much less of an impact on game herds than those who are afraid to return empty handed.
This year in the desert, I hunted one buck all year. He won. I went home to tag soup.
All my buddies, I put them on bucks and they hunt for meat. Needless to say there was plenty of meat cut up at the end of the trip.
It is a personal choice. But... I didnt have tag soup after all. Everyone gave the "guide" plenty of meat. I even got the back straps from a grateful friend.
None of those other bucks wouldve happened if I shot the first buck I saw and went back to camp to drink beer.
You are right tag soup is good for the soul.
it makes really shitty venison jerky though. for eating, you cannot beat a fat young doe. i found (and finished off) a car-injured young doe a few years ago, still had spots on its butt and milk dripping from its chin. (joking there) best meat i ever had, you could have eaten & swallowed it without teeth. a buddies wife did not really like deer meat. he accidentally killed a young one when his arrow flew over adult does back. after trying fawn, his wife told him to "kill more of the little ones..."
Recall buying bricks of 22 shells as a kid, with money from trading in soda bottles.
A carnival would come around, with a shooting gallery that used 22 shorts, and no one thought it odd.
These damn threads are like time machines sometimes
Speaking of bullets...boy, 'America' sure dodged this one...
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Unfortunately, she has now sprained her hand and as a result, cancelled a trip to a fort in India. Doctors have advised her to rest.
When I was a kid I would get paid $5.00 to split and stack a cord of firewood by hand with an axe, maul and wedges. It was hard work for a 10-12 year old kid but five bucks was good money back then. On a good weekend day I could do two cords and still have enough daylight left to go huntin' or fishin' until dark.
I could then walk into town to the local general store and buy a box of paper low brass shotgun shells for $4.99 or a brick of 500 .22 shells for exactly $5.00.
I remember the carnivals with the shooting booth. The trick was to get a good bead on a target and take one shot. None of the guns shot straight so you had to determine where the point of impact really was and adjust accordingly.
i didnt find out who won until the next morning. when i did it felt like christmas, my birthday, 4th of july and winning the lottery rolled into a nice fat doobie.
Yup... I woulda been happier though if Alfred E. Neuman or Willie Nelson had beaten her...