Could have tagged out...........but.

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There they were,a nice doe and a small buck within shooting range in the shotgun only area. One problem, they were standing just inside the fence of a local farmers field. I watched them with binoculars for about 10 minutes and continued on my way home.
That was the last day of the season in the last 1/2 hour of light too..........:eek:
 
I feel your pain brother..

I was hoping to knock off for the final day yesterday but work would not allow it so off to work I went.

Ended up walking a hillside with a contractor checking out a recent slide. It quit snowing while we were up there and we cut super fresh nice buck tracks heading into a thicket on top of a doe and fawn's tracks.:runaway: No rifle of course..
 
There is a good side to this story John. You had the grit to let them walk.

The punk kid from down the road found a herd of elk in a field where he cannot hunt. Instead of letting them go he bounces a round in front of the herd to make them run back into his field so they can shoot the bull.
And he wonders why I don't want to have anything to do with him.......

A hat tipped to you sir, and better luck to you next year!
 
Noel said:
There is a good side to this story John. You had the grit to let them walk.

The punk kid from down the road found a herd of elk in a field where he cannot hunt. Instead of letting them go he bounces a round in front of the herd to make them run back into his field so they can shoot the bull.
And he wonders why I don't want to have anything to do with him.......

A hat tipped to you sir, and better luck to you next year!
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Thanks Noel, my son got his first deer this year with my o/u shotgun. His deer was in a patch of bush with no fences or private property. He passed his CORE course this past summer and got his hunting licence shortly after. I was very proud of him and I gave him my Remington 700 Mountain rifle in 7x57, to top off the season he gets a nice deer with the scattergun.:cool: I consider the season a big success even though I had to pass on more than two deer this season because of zone restrictions and private property.
 
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303carbine said:
Thanks Noel, my son got his first deer this year with my o/u shotgun. His deer was in a patch of bush with no fences or private property. He passed his CORE course this past summer and got his hunting licence shortly after. I was very proud of him and I gave him my Remington 700 Mountain rifle in 7x57, to top off the season he gets a nice deer with the scattergun.:cool: I consider the season a big success even though I had to pass on more than two deer this season because of zone restrictions and private property.
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Well then, as far as I'm concerned you did tag out. The day my kids put a tag on an animal should they choose to, all the rest of the season is just icing for the cake. To have a kid want to play with their parents is just too good!:)
 
Noel said:
Well then, as far as I'm concerned you did tag out. The day my kids put a tag on an animal should they choose to, all the rest of the season is just icing for the cake. To have a kid want to play with their parents is just too good!:)
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I agree, I still get the warm and fuzzies when I recall his first deer.
 
303carbine said:
I agree, I still get the warm and fuzzies when I recall his first deer.
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I felt the same when Christy hammered her Antelope, her first animal and then again three years later with her first moose. It is the next best thing to getting one yourself. In some ways it is even better to know you helped fullfill another person's dream and in a way let them have what you might have taken.
 
Noel said:
I felt the same when Christy hammered her Antelope, her first animal and then again three years later with her first moose. It is the next best thing to getting one yourself. In some ways it is even better to know you helped fullfill another person's dream and in a way let them have what you might have taken.
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Hopefully he will remember forever and give dad a chance next year....:D
 
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