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Offline rnharris

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Re: 12 year old shoots monster buck
« Reply #40 on: September 17, 2007, 02:35:00 PM »
great shot congradulations 20 ft high awsome that angle makes it that much harder to hit small vitals Ralph
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Re: 12 year old shoots monster buck
« Reply #41 on: September 17, 2007, 03:17:00 PM »
the kid got his first deer, GREAT SHOT, Zach
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Re: 12 year old shoots monster buck
« Reply #42 on: September 17, 2007, 03:22:00 PM »
Congratulations Zach.

I have to admit that I sorta cringed when the picture came up. I kinda feel the same as Bill. I am glad to see a youngster taking up hunting but I'll bet, as Bill said, that alot of guys had a bad feeling at the sight of the spotted fawn.

Of course it has always been illegal to kill spotted fawns here in Alabama, so maybe my initial response is due to that.

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Re: 12 year old shoots monster buck
« Reply #43 on: September 17, 2007, 03:32:00 PM »
Way to go Zach !!! And yes, silence is wisdom. I for one am proud of the young guy. Would I take a spotted fawn? depends on the moment. God knows I have taken plenty of them to feed my family when I was starting out. Any animal taken with a bow and arrow is a prize. With the over population of deer in some areas it isn't a bad thing to do anyway. And beside has anyone ate horns yet? That meat will be the best meat there is and as far as anti hunters they are always going to have their opinions, complain and force their weak ideas on others. As long as you repect what you have done in a good way, any deer is a trophy. Doesn't matter.
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Offline Phil Tuccillo

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Re: 12 year old shoots monster buck
« Reply #44 on: September 17, 2007, 03:42:00 PM »
He is a 12 year old boy with his first deer, and he took it with a longbow. The last thing this kid needs is to be made to feel quilty about taking a legal deer.As trad. bowhunters or bowhunters period, we need him on our team more then we need bowhunters who question the ethics of a twelve year old for making a legal fair chase kill.
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Re: 12 year old shoots monster buck
« Reply #45 on: September 17, 2007, 04:01:00 PM »
Awesome deer. It will be one to be remembered!

Don't ever let anti-hunters make you as an archer and hunter walk on eggshells which seems to be an ever growing trend.
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Re: 12 year old shoots monster buck
« Reply #46 on: September 17, 2007, 04:27:00 PM »
Congrats Zach!  Great job on your first big game harvest and with the longstick no doubt!  I understand some of the statements above, but I have told the kids I take hunting, get your first one no matter what size, shape or color.  Had Zach shot this deer in 2-3 weeks, with no spots, would he still be questioned?  I have seen way more full grown men fill a doe tag with a fawn, and that makes me ill.  A twelve year old with a long bow = great trophy in my eyes!!!
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Re: 12 year old shoots monster buck
« Reply #47 on: September 17, 2007, 04:27:00 PM »
I'd be one proud hunter if'n I were that young man.
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Re: 12 year old shoots monster buck
« Reply #48 on: September 17, 2007, 04:33:00 PM »
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Originally posted by DRR324:
 Had Zach shot this deer in 2-3 weeks, with no spots, would he still be questioned?  I have seen way more full grown men fill a doe tag with a fawn, and that makes me ill.
Very good point. I have seen many of the same grown men do it with a shotgun.  

Zach you are the man!!!      :cool:
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Offline Swanny in MD

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Re: 12 year old shoots monster buck
« Reply #49 on: September 17, 2007, 04:50:00 PM »
Zach doesn't mind those who express their opinions regarding fawns.  

He's seen his papa bear (who was raised on the farm he shot the fawn) sicker than a dog with Lyme disease and spend enough money to buy a house to get well...his older sister, and his cousins and his aunts and uncles and his grandpa had lyme too, for that matter.

He's heard a multitude of the folks (mostly non-hunters) in the neighborhood get lyme and one died of heart complications and others who ended up crippled in a wheelchair.  Young and old getting very ill with bacteria from ticks spread like wildfire by an overpopulation of deer.

He's just doing what his daddy does cause he knows how it's helping reduce the population and providing some of the best tasting meat on the table for the family.  

Part of his manhood coming to expression.     ;)
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Re: 12 year old shoots monster buck
« Reply #50 on: September 17, 2007, 04:56:00 PM »
I had an uncle come over from the old country.
Said he shot a doe, made a mistake of crossing the farm in May, had 2 little ones inside.
"I eata them too" he said. He was a grown man but a hungry man with a hungry family.
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Re: 12 year old shoots monster buck
« Reply #51 on: September 17, 2007, 05:02:00 PM »
GOOD EATS! CONGRATS ZACH.<><
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Re: 12 year old shoots monster buck
« Reply #52 on: September 17, 2007, 05:38:00 PM »
Way to get started Zach congrats on some fine steak  :thumbsup:

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Re: 12 year old shoots monster buck
« Reply #53 on: September 17, 2007, 05:53:00 PM »
way to go zach  :archer:
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Re: 12 year old shoots monster buck
« Reply #54 on: September 17, 2007, 05:56:00 PM »
Great job!! Enjoy your first trophy!  :clapper:    :clapper:
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Re: 12 year old shoots monster buck
« Reply #55 on: September 17, 2007, 06:10:00 PM »
Congrats Zach!

Way to take the time and patience to get them out there Dad!
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Re: 12 year old shoots monster buck
« Reply #56 on: September 17, 2007, 06:34:00 PM »
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Zach doesn't mind those who express their opinions regarding fawns.
Gentlemen, Bubba expressed his thoughts fair and square, respectfully and with congratulations to the young man I might add. No need to turn this into an ethics dispute...start another thread if you wish, but it too will remain respectful and cordial or it will get closed.

Ken, if that young man of yours can learn to listen to other points of view, consider the possibilities, and develop/express his own, that's a tall order for any man...if he's learning it already he will be well ahead of most. Tip of my hat to him for that....more so than a lifetime of animals taken with a stickbow.

Now, let's carry on and try and keep this particular thread out of an ethics discussion.
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Re: 12 year old shoots monster buck
« Reply #57 on: September 17, 2007, 06:41:00 PM »
Meats meat gotta eat is what i say congrats to the boy !!!!
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Offline Curtis Haden

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Re: 12 year old shoots monster buck
« Reply #58 on: September 17, 2007, 07:01:00 PM »
Congratulations, Zach!!!

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Re: 12 year old shoots monster buck
« Reply #59 on: September 17, 2007, 07:50:00 PM »
VERY COOL!!! I am very impressed!! Congrats to all!! Shawn
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