As I start to wrap up this post, I feel that I have made it a little to much about me.
I have an unbelievable amount of respect for these animals as their whole life is about survival.
This year has been an incredible amount of preparation for me as I shot almost every day including inside during the winter months. Three of my four kids have longbows and are enjoying the heck out of shooting them.
And although I want to shoot a great big buck to make them proud of their Dad, I have realized that I have an even greater oppurtunity. I must take the time now to teach them that the hunts are not all about taking animals down. They are about the preparation, the making of the arrows, feathers, tuning them to the bows, understanding the bows behavior with different changes that can be made to it. Also the understanding of a piece of land that you hunt. To see it as an animal that lives there sees it just trying to survive. What they eat, where and when they sleep, learning where to set up and how to blend in. So much that gets taken for granted after years of trying to get the "Big One" Being practical with the gear and just enjoying the process are what I have started to realize these last 2 years of being Traditional in this process.
With that said, I have yet to take my first traditional buck and that is still a quest of mine. However, I have to believe that taking a mature doe during the rut is more difficult to do than taking a buck that is no longer making survival his first priority.
I am completely satisfied with this hunt.
Thank You Lord for this experience and this crossing of TWO TRACKS on this journey this morning.
Oh, and here is the Scarecrow
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