Short answer... yes you didn't do the right thing at the right time or it would be a double for you and your brother. Honestly don't think there is any way to know what would have fired those bulls up unless you were there and did it right. Each year I learn something new of when and why each...
Happened to me one time also when I hit my release on my cam as I watched the bull and not the motion of my hand rising…. Still annoys me as that would have been a 40 yard shot!
Glad to see you back at it. I really enjoy for hunts and stories. If nothing else, keep doing it so you can relive the memories by looking back at your journals!
Do something you don't have in your arsenal. Your just kicking the tax ball down the road with the 1031 exchange so just pick something and hold it a year. If you don't like it, you get to list it and turn the page again. Hidden Lake was my top choice. A little pond that might hold some fish...
Finally someone who keeps it real and uses this as a tool and not an end all. Modern medicine has its place and abuse as well but there is nothing wrong with your thought process here. Couldn't agree more with your final statement!
Are you overweight? Diabetic? Cholesterol issues? I wouldn't touch it either if I wasn't any of those things.
Protein and water intake a critical. Greens and Carbs are necessary too, but there are 2 options with high cholesterol... take cholesterol meds or change your diet and lose weight...
If your ready to pay for a new one, let them total and take it. If your just going to buy used, buy it back. At least you know what demons you have caused the last 125k miles. A similar used you have no idea what might be lurking.
Kind of my thoughts too..... easements were done in 2011 and 2013. Not that long ago really especially when he is bragging about a 4th generation ranch.
I could always get young bucks to come to a decoy or white handkerchief early in the season for pure curiosity. I would never be able to close the distance though to under 80 yards. I was hunting wide open pastures with no topography to help. I had so many spot and stalk failures that it...
Seems to me that a hybrid of new tech and old ways is best.... but new generation thinks the old guys don't know squat for such and such reason, but the old guys won't listen to why a new method is better because its been done that way for X years.
Adapt that to raising kids and at the...