Bwana
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So five years ago when my youngest boy added his first buck to the wall in our front room along side of the buck taken two years ago by his older brother my wife said, "Enough." 
She seemed to think my elk and two whitetail mounts along with the boys' deer was the limit for the front room but my 9-year-old daughter corrected her and said that SHE still gets to put one on the wall!
Fast forward to this year when my daughter became eligible for a buck tag after two years of taking whitetail doe. With this tag she is allowed to take buck or doe, whitetail or mule deer, as long as you are not in one of the specific mule deer buck management units located in the western portion of the state. Her answer to asking what she wanted to shoot was, any buck as long as it is big. Sure, no problem.
Though we were not able to make it out until late afternoon on the third day of the season due to band and high school trap-shooting obligations, things worked out just fine.
Due to an almost-never-happens-around-here south wind we had to make some adjustments to our game plan so ended up watching our area of interest from a different vantage point then we intended to.
Wanting to see into a larger area, we moved over to another drainage and immediately noticed a small group of deer feeding on the opposite side of the river. Not able to see anything with headgear we kept glassing the surrounding areas while still keeping an eye on the original group. After a few minutes I noticed another deer joining the group and a quick look through the binoculars confirmed that it was a VERY nice buck!
A plan was hatched, a stalk executed, and a single shot from her mom's trusty 7mm-08 did the trick.
Looks like there will be another addition to our front room.
She seemed to think my elk and two whitetail mounts along with the boys' deer was the limit for the front room but my 9-year-old daughter corrected her and said that SHE still gets to put one on the wall!Fast forward to this year when my daughter became eligible for a buck tag after two years of taking whitetail doe. With this tag she is allowed to take buck or doe, whitetail or mule deer, as long as you are not in one of the specific mule deer buck management units located in the western portion of the state. Her answer to asking what she wanted to shoot was, any buck as long as it is big. Sure, no problem.
Though we were not able to make it out until late afternoon on the third day of the season due to band and high school trap-shooting obligations, things worked out just fine.
Due to an almost-never-happens-around-here south wind we had to make some adjustments to our game plan so ended up watching our area of interest from a different vantage point then we intended to.
Wanting to see into a larger area, we moved over to another drainage and immediately noticed a small group of deer feeding on the opposite side of the river. Not able to see anything with headgear we kept glassing the surrounding areas while still keeping an eye on the original group. After a few minutes I noticed another deer joining the group and a quick look through the binoculars confirmed that it was a VERY nice buck!
A plan was hatched, a stalk executed, and a single shot from her mom's trusty 7mm-08 did the trick.
Looks like there will be another addition to our front room.
