Hunting
Waterfowl hunting is what I enjoy most and you can't beat a day with a little snow and wind hunting divers.
Deer hunting is next on the list. I shot this 10 pointer on opening day of the 1997 season. I mounted the head myself. I rough scored it at about 134 with a 19 1/2 inch inside spread. It weighed in at 192 lbs. It was the first one I had done and it really turned out nice. I was expecting to do a smaller one for practice first so I was a little apprehensive about messing this one up. Unfortunately, a couple of months after I finished it, our house burned down. The mount was in the room where the fire started and the fire chief said it was a hot fire with temps around 2,000 degrees. I could not even find a piece of the horn. Fortunately I had a few pictures of it at work.
Some more big bucks. The one on the left is a 10 point taken in 1991. It had a heavy rack but the tines were relatively short and weighed in at 181 lbs. The one on the right is an 8 pointer but as you can see it had a nice rack. He weighed 175 lbs.
This is the last deer my dad shot before he had to give up hunting, not a bad way to end it. He shot it in the field behind him on the run and had a hard time finding it in the tall blue stem CRP. Later, when the rest of the party came to help, we found it about 100 yards farther out than he thought he dropped it. It was close to 200 yards on the run where he dropped it in it's tracks. It's a nice 10 pointer with a rough score of about 136. He was a big one, weighing in at 205 lbs.
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