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Originally posted by randy_weiland:
I've watched hundreds of does walk past my stands in the last ten years, waitin' on that buck. Some years he came along, some years not. However, the world we live in is changing, and my family is changing. My two small children have become a teenager, and a 115 pound, football playing, 3rd grader,...groceries are up, up, UP, and full of a bunch of B.S. thats bad for us! These two main factors are also accompanied by a recent human population explosion in my deer woods... Really my mentality changed last year. I've grown an in- season garden for years, but last year I got some jars and started what's turned into a canning addiction. Then I made the decision to fill the freezer, and I shot the first doe and her yearling that came along, and left the "buck waiting" to my daughter who started hunting last year, and who ended up shooting a doe of her own before season's end. This spring I bought a heifer and a steer and bottle raised them, they're pastured at my in-laws, and I have put a rabbitry in the back yard. So, this fall it won't be a suprise to me, when I find myself willing to shoot the first steak I see. I'm certian I will return to the "buck hunting" mentality, in the twilight of my hunting years, when the wife and I are suffering from empty nest syndrome... but for now, and I suspect for about the next 10 years,... It's all about bring home the bacon cool
With beef prices sky high, I'm sure you won't be the only one looking for meat first and antlers second this season.