Curtis
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Sunday evening I was taking a ride around on the ranch looking for animals with my family. My father and mother were with me along with my two kids, Matthew and Emily. As we were driving along I saw something crouching down under a youpon tree next to a mesquite. It was a good size bobcat hoping we didn't see him. They will commonly not run from you if they think you haven't seen them. I whispered to my kids, " Be quite. There's a cat right there!" Could you believe they actually did it? How come they never do that when they are home? LOL! Emily whispered, "Get him Daddy!" I quietly got my gun out and Emily said she wanted to be with me so I let her stand in front of me with my arm holding the gun in front. We aimed together as I pulled the trigger. PoW! One shot...one kill right thru the shoulder and the cat jumped a bit and fell over. That was all she wrote. My son was sitting behind me the entire time watching over my shoulder. Immediately they both wanted to go see it. I told Emily to find a big long stick first to use to check to make sure it was dead. She did and we all walked up to ground check the cat. Emily first poked it in hind leg and then she poked his head. It didn't move so she announced that it was dead. The smiles on my kids faces during this entire event made the hunt very memorable for me. This was the first time they have both been with me to shoot something. I think I can see the hunter side in Emily and Matthew is not far behind.
I decided to get the cat life size mounted on a branch similar to how it is in the picture but with the head turned differently . It will go in the corner of my den up high. I think it will look really good there, unless the wife thinks differently. Otherwise I think it may go in one of the kids rooms. Being that they were with me and I enjoyed it so much with them being there, I think it would be fitting for it to go in either ones room.
