I got four seconds into that crap and had to turn it off. I still feel more contaminated than that one time when I accidentally opened a @Greenhorn link.
Look, I don't have a dog in this fight. Buzz makes some good points, and so do you. But your name is literally TX Trophy Hunter... and you're lecturing about eating every animal we kill? That's what you call ironic!
Texas is different. Having lived here for too dang long now, I have come to understand the shooting and leaving mentality on certain invasive critters like pigs and audad. I'd personally take the meat and try it, but they are insanely destructive to feeders (which are about as near to a Texan's...
Santa brought me a new Stetson wool crushable, and a 20 lb mace to limber up my overly archery specific trained shoulders and thoracic spine.
Oh, and a hand thrown coffee mug. I have a strange attachment to my coffee mugs. They have to be "just so".
I haven't been on instagram in months, but I downloaded it just to check... mine was some weird amalgamation of parenting humor, lord of the rings memes, and fighter jets. With a couple big deer thrown in for good measure.
Travel permitting, I'd love to be a fly on the wall for something like this, but I would definitely think it's better to avoid a public free for all. And as I am no longer a MT resident, I have no voice worth hearing anyways. I really am thankful these types of discussions are beginning to take...
Lets be very brutally honest... you (and I) live in central Texas. You'll shoot the gun about twice a year... at pigs/deer eating corn over a feeder.
Texas sucks.
If you don't have anything nice to say, take it elsewhere! The dude busted his butt, and shot a great buck. Personally I like this type of story a lot better than the long word vomits full of fake modesty and awkward gushing about the birds and the bees and the pine trees.
My grandpa nearly pulled this off with his 300 h&h when we were hunting some thick stuff. Except the tree he shot was more like 16" thick, and it slowed down the bullet too much. Got muscle blood, but didn't make it to the good stuff.
Good lord, you're paying airline fees to do THAT hunt? Good luck. Bring snake chaps and a thermacell, and spray EVERY item of clothing down with Permethrin before you hunt. No clue on the slugs.
There is no reason not to use active hearing protection these days. The earmuff style are generally a lot cheaper. I have the walkers (I think).
They work really well for hearing low decibel sound, while filtering the high db noises.
I hear so many guys say they can shoot 360... I found I couldn't even shoot 180 out of a saddle. I couldn't get steady swinging around the tree, with the tether yanking me back to the side, and then the stupid bridge gets in the way of your draw elbow half the time.
I also fidget like a...