I have been very fortunate the last few years to help first time hunters kill either their first turkey or deer. I have found that these hunts are very fulfilling and some of the most memorable I have ever had.
We have a great member named Bob, who is a retired gentleman, and has been hunting for 9 years. He told us that he always wanted to kill a decent buck, big enough to mount and hang in his living room. I told Bob to shoot any buck that meets his criteria regardless of our management rules. So going into this year, Bob getting a mountable buck was our number 1 goal.
The night the three Toxies where in the tower (previous blog posts), we heard Bob shoot up the power line food plot. Sure enough he called and said he had killed a nice 9 pointer. He was nice enough to do a post shot interview and he was touching enough that I wanted to include it in this post. You can see how appreciative he was to have taken a nice buck. This is what hunting is all about and I wanted to remind us all of this point.