thank you for the information. It sounds like fun with your family. I would never lie to a fellow Free Republic person. I don’t know if I could shoot a deer. I don’t care that others do I would love to watch it being cleaned up cut and cooked. It sounds fun and delicious. Maybe with a gun in my hands and deer in front of me it might be different lol
I have gotten more ‘live and let live’ as I get older. The excitement is in the hunting not in the killing. It is anticlimactic and it is when the work begins. (Though not being ready to kill one if the moment presents itself takes away from the hunt...photo safaris do not have the same excitement)
One or all of my 3 kids usually tag out early, so I don’t shoot unless the deer has a phenomenal rack. So I have gone from a meat hunter to a trophy hunter and in doing so have not shot a deer in a decade, though many have passed by me.