Five year trophy

For five years I’ve been trying to get a decent buck to shoulder mount. Endless kilometres of walking. Seeing deer all over the place. Watching my mates shoot bucks. Social media showing off amazing bucks all over the world. To add to that misery, I messed up two opportunities that should have been easy, to say the least.

I CAN say a lot of the lessons I’ve learned haven’t been from successes, but rather from abysmal failures. I started to feel like a pathetic loser, but 2022 just had to be my year.

I had shot a young buck on my first ever trip out, but he was young and not well developed. Don’t get me wrong,