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<blockquote data-quote="villagelightsmith" data-source="post: 1792979" data-attributes="member: 68421"><p>A lot depends on your definition of "trophy," and why you want that tag hung on it.</p><p>To me, any good hunt experience is a trophy that I pack with me and enjoy for the rest of my life.</p><p>There are some requirements, of course. Good company, good camps, clean shooting choices. I want the memories to be something I'm grateful to have done, without any niggling regrets. Some of my hunts have been in a lot of vertical real estate, or in weather that was absolutely horrendous. One involved finding and returning a lost hunter just on the head of a major storm. One involved running laps to get another hunter's animal 12 miles out to the road-head, without pack animals. One involved returning to camp and finding elk tracks all around the tent. You know the drill. Another trophy was taking a nap, then daydreaming in the sunshine on the trail with my scope cranked up to the limit when a herd of elk stood up around me. Buck fever, no shots fired, but the memory of that line of bobbing butts disappearing into the dark timber when all I could see thru the scope was "hair" has been a trophy I've enjoyed for years. Good friends, good food, tough terrain and good stories ... another hunter's kill, hearing another hunter tell his story of calling in a "hunter" ... turned out to be a Monarch, but without a clean shot. The roast that's on my plate as I type this. These are all trophies.</p><p>And yes, there's some good horns on my wall ... but I wouldn't trade bigger horns for the memories of the Great Hunts I have enjoyed these many years.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="villagelightsmith, post: 1792979, member: 68421"] A lot depends on your definition of "trophy," and why you want that tag hung on it. To me, any good hunt experience is a trophy that I pack with me and enjoy for the rest of my life. There are some requirements, of course. Good company, good camps, clean shooting choices. I want the memories to be something I'm grateful to have done, without any niggling regrets. Some of my hunts have been in a lot of vertical real estate, or in weather that was absolutely horrendous. One involved finding and returning a lost hunter just on the head of a major storm. One involved running laps to get another hunter's animal 12 miles out to the road-head, without pack animals. One involved returning to camp and finding elk tracks all around the tent. You know the drill. Another trophy was taking a nap, then daydreaming in the sunshine on the trail with my scope cranked up to the limit when a herd of elk stood up around me. Buck fever, no shots fired, but the memory of that line of bobbing butts disappearing into the dark timber when all I could see thru the scope was "hair" has been a trophy I've enjoyed for years. Good friends, good food, tough terrain and good stories ... another hunter's kill, hearing another hunter tell his story of calling in a "hunter" ... turned out to be a Monarch, but without a clean shot. The roast that's on my plate as I type this. These are all trophies. And yes, there's some good horns on my wall ... but I wouldn't trade bigger horns for the memories of the Great Hunts I have enjoyed these many years. [/QUOTE]
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