Originally Posted by 2Dogs
Originally Posted by CrappieMan
I get people who walk in with a 3 yr old deer and they are as excited as a kid at Christmas. Even more when they pick it up. Then I get some that will walk in with a 5yr old 140 inch deer and they act like it's no big deal, no excitement at all.


Shoot what make you happy. It takes a VERY special animal to get me excited .

Yep. I get no excitement out of killing 3 year olds, no matter what’s on their head. I know folks around me who get giddy tickled to death over a 115” 3 year old. Neither is wrong. After letting some really good bucks walk years ago I get way more excitement watching them walk off than killing them now. Big old mature, broad shouldered heavy antlered ghosts are a challenge and that’s what drives me now. It’s become way too easy to kill young and middle aged deer. I don’t expect everyone else to hunt like me though. Some folks never get to that point and it’s fine.

The day someone expects me to age a gobbling turkey before killing him will be the day I look at them like they’ve lost their mind. Some ppl deer hunt with that mentality so I get it.