Dewey wrote:Stay home and have some good home cooked meals instead of going out to eat. I rarely go out to eat because I don't trust other people making my food and I hate to wait.
I would much rather put that money into taxidermy and look at it everyday.
The problem with staying home to eat is that we have 2 year old twin daughters and a 9 week old son, there is not enough time in the day to make nice meals. We generally cook a bunch of stuff on Saturday/Sunday and eat leftovers for a week and then freeze the rest of it. Being a one income family (though it's a not as bad as it seems) we are just playing it safe right now. If it weren't for having my wife go in for a 9 day stretch and my son go in for a 6 day stretch in the ICU areas then this wouldn't be a problem. I will gladly trade their health for not getting a deer head on the wall.
I should point out that the 2nd deer head is still roaming around a timber/field somewhere. If I don't drop the hammer then this will be a moot point/post! It will maybe give me the courage to turn the page into a new chapter of hunting where I'm able to pass up the 150's and start waiting for 160's and God willing 170's.
That being said my buddy sent me a photo of a buck that I'd really like to smoke, 16 points and 6.5 years old, mid 150's and he said he'd give me the sheds off it from the past few years. That would make a sweet pedestal mount.
Sling Shot by name.