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.
im there with you - but - I was fortunate enough some years back to get 3 one year - I didn’t eat store meat for a year and half....I lost 60#
Psst.. it’s best to let your Sicilian side be ‘right’.. I wish we could ranch Elk i n TX.
wow that’s pretty cool. I hope you see one you like one day and have it as a trophy. Believe me I’m not PETA lol. They get shot in the head. No pain. that’s it. we actually have a deer problem on Staten Island can you believe it. I think they did get hunters to kill them. well I’m 47 and finally shot some guns last month. It was great. Maybe hunting might be on my bucket list.