I learned:
1. Taxidermy is expensive, even more so in multiples. When you have 5 animals in for taxidermy, a bulk discount can be applied.
2. My 8-year old has a good sense for animals and how game trails work.
3. Bighorn sheep hunting is way more fun than one would think.
4. Hunting alone...
BuzzH - Exactly what I was thinking. Guys in my office get pizzed when I start nit-picking and finding fault with this stuff. Those pelts are shure brushed out nicely... If they were trying harder, they would have drug a few through the mud and snow a little, at least make it look a little...
Nice Buck! Great looking country there. Looks like you earned him! I like that you are really grinning in the pics... I see too many un-smiling tough guy photos. That is a picture with a happy guy behind a great deer!
Good job!
Agree with Lawnboy. I will say that I have been on some 2nd day recovery of game due to being unable to track in thick brush in the dark. Temp was less than 45 degrees overnight, but not freezing. This was a rifle-shot doe.
In daylight, it still took a few hours to find, and the deer did have...
Very nice!
Pat, you know how to make a weekend of it, don't you?
You have any holes in your schedule now that you only have one tag left?
Nice going! That is a season most of us only dream of...
Awewome pics. Good on you! My boys saw those pics and were way excited! They are glad to see other kids that are doing the same things they love to do!
Pat, you are getting it right, and living the dream with your family. That is so great.
Not many parents have a passion that they can...