I agree. This was from our hunt last year in MT. Was my son’s first year of hunting and first deer. By no means trophies, but for both of us to have bucks on the ground the first morning of the hunt was pretty cool. He shot his first. I was about a mile away from him at the time but heard him shoot. Got a txt about 5 mins later that he had one down, so I busted through the woods to get to him. I’d jumped a 4x3 about an hour before that ran his way, so was hoping that’s what he had down. So I finally get to him (not making any attempts to be quiet) and he’s got a forky down. He said it was trailing a group of does that he saw first. So we starting gutting the forky, and he says, “Dad, there’s a buck over there!”. Sure enough, about 75 yards away, there’s a buck walking straight in on us. Most likely trailing the same does. He walks in to about 50 yards and I was able to put him down. Using his deer as my gun rest. Turns out it was the same 4x3 I’d jumped early. Neither are trophies, but outside of hunts with my dad as a kid, it’s a hunt that I’ll always cherish.
