Old business

Posting a video I shot with my digital camera in 2007.  The camera won't zoom while recording in video mode, thus this is actually two videos stitched together.  I fortunately got zoomed in before the action took place.

Not much of a fight, but pretty cool and the first time I had witnessed something like this.  I've always told people who ask me why I hunt that being in the blind in quiet observation of nature is the main reason.   Getting some meat for the table is a bonus.

Making Camp

I didn't grow up a hunter.  I didn't grow up against it, but (other than squirrels and rabbits as a youth) my dad didn't hunt and it is rarely something you just fall into.

About 10 years ago after several years of prodding, I finally accepted an invite from my father-in-law to head down to his deer lease in central Texas.  Unlike previous years, my wife was instrumental in me going as she didn't want her dad heading out alone (a decision she would later regret).