Kinda Disappointed

[Redmt]

Yesterday was A Zone deer season opener. I've been waiting anxiously to hunt with the absolutely most beautiful rifle I've ever had that @p_ham built for me. I went out on my morning hunt as planned with my Ruger#1 Stainless steel Laminate stock 6.5 CM. I've worked up a load I'm very happy with.
The morning hunt was a bust so I came back home and started my morning chores one of which is checking levels in our water tanks. So what pops out in front of me is a respectable forked horn. I have a couple rifles that live in our side by side one being a .22 squirrel killer and the other my 6.5 Predator.
My hunting buddy that passed a couple years ago had a saying " Never pass up a buck on opening day that you'd be glad to see on closing day". I watched this buck for about 10 minutes wrestling with to take it or not. I'm weighing up Garry's sage advice vs. my taking the buck with the. "wrong rifle".
I'm going to town tomorrow to get a second deer tag.

 

[the nikster]

Yesterday was A Zone deer season opener. I've been waiting anxiously to hunt with the absolutely most beautiful rifle I've ever had that @p_ham built for me. I went out on my morning hunt as planned with my Ruger#1 Stainless steel Laminate stock 6.5 CM. I've worked up a load I'm very happy with.
The morning hunt was a bust so I came back home and started my morning chores one of which is checking levels in our water tanks. So what pops out in front of me is a respectable forked horn. I have a couple rifles that live in our side by side one being a .22 squirrel killer and the other my 6.5 Predator.
My hunting buddy that passed a couple years ago had a saying " Never pass up a buck on opening day that you'd be glad to see on closing day". I watched this buck for about 10 minutes wrestling with to take it or not. I'm weighing up Garry's sage advice vs. my taking the buck with the. "wrong rifle".
I'm going to town tomorrow to get a second deer tag.

Garry was wise, so were you.

 

[EastTNHunter]

I’ve often said that the experience is more important than the trophy. Kinda like the journey is more important than the destination. But many times I’ve also felt strongly that “1 bird in hand is better than 2 in the bush.” They clash sometimes, eh?

 

[Bullshot]

I wonder if Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett wrestled with these kinds of existential conflicts….

Probably.

What kind of hunters would they have been if they didn’t second guess their decision to waste a ball over using a knife.

I have a feeling that forky would have been doomed either way. then or now.

 

[geetar]

I wonder if Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett wrestled with these kinds of existential conflicts….

Probably.

What kind of hunters would they have been if they didn’t second guess their decision to waste a ball over using a knife.

I have a feeling that forky would have been doomed either way. then or now.

I remember reading a book on Davey Crockett when I was a kid and people laughed at his first rifle because it was a shorter than normal rifle with nickel plating vs the brass and steel that were not popular in those days and they called it a city slicker rifle. His father ran a tavern and bought it off of a traveling man passing through. Those jokes still go on today and sound like 6.5 Manbun