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<blockquote data-quote="Rich Coyle" data-source="post: 2071009" data-attributes="member: 70559"><p>rammac,</p><p></p><p>I hope this year goes very well for you and the Lord bless you and your family. Thanks for taking the time for such a lengthy post.</p><p></p><p>Your post reminds me of Mark Twain's statement about scientists. He said something like, "Scientists can make such a wholesale lot of conjecture from such a trifling investment of facts." You assumed I posted a photo of a "trophy". One year I decided to hunt for a "trophy". I wanted a blacktail with antlers wider than the ears with four points on each side. While glassing with 8X binoculars I found a buck with horns wider than the ears. But I couldn't make out the number of points. I switched to my scope and started turning up the magnification. The second I saw four points on each side I fired. Then I checked the magnification setting: 12X. So much for binoculars being as good as a scope.</p><p></p><p>The reason I posted the photo of the head shot doe had nothing to do with "trophy". In fact I titled it "High velocity impact" because I was using one of my wildcats. It fired .257" 85 grain bullets at 3,919 feet per second. The attack came because I didn't "at least put the eyes back into the sockets." And yes I hunt for the sport. Just like the vast, vast majority of hunters. I will go so far as to post all trophy hunters hunt for sport. It's like ol' Socrates said, "The boys throw rocks at the frogs. But the frogs die for real."</p><p></p><p>The only "mount" I have is a Corsican sheep. My wife wanted one for interior decorating our small apartment. I took her to Sportsmans Warehouse. She looked at the Dall, bighorn sheep, and others but didn't like them. Finally she saw one she liked. With a little research I discovered what it was and where I could get one. The hunt was still fun even though it was a high fence hunt on 4,000 acres. One mile has 640 acres for reference. It was truly a "free range hunt" as far as my experience went because I had to glass and then follow up on it. But it was still sport for me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rich Coyle, post: 2071009, member: 70559"] rammac, I hope this year goes very well for you and the Lord bless you and your family. Thanks for taking the time for such a lengthy post. Your post reminds me of Mark Twain's statement about scientists. He said something like, "Scientists can make such a wholesale lot of conjecture from such a trifling investment of facts." You assumed I posted a photo of a "trophy". One year I decided to hunt for a "trophy". I wanted a blacktail with antlers wider than the ears with four points on each side. While glassing with 8X binoculars I found a buck with horns wider than the ears. But I couldn't make out the number of points. I switched to my scope and started turning up the magnification. The second I saw four points on each side I fired. Then I checked the magnification setting: 12X. So much for binoculars being as good as a scope. The reason I posted the photo of the head shot doe had nothing to do with "trophy". In fact I titled it "High velocity impact" because I was using one of my wildcats. It fired .257" 85 grain bullets at 3,919 feet per second. The attack came because I didn't "at least put the eyes back into the sockets." And yes I hunt for the sport. Just like the vast, vast majority of hunters. I will go so far as to post all trophy hunters hunt for sport. It's like ol' Socrates said, "The boys throw rocks at the frogs. But the frogs die for real." The only "mount" I have is a Corsican sheep. My wife wanted one for interior decorating our small apartment. I took her to Sportsmans Warehouse. She looked at the Dall, bighorn sheep, and others but didn't like them. Finally she saw one she liked. With a little research I discovered what it was and where I could get one. The hunt was still fun even though it was a high fence hunt on 4,000 acres. One mile has 640 acres for reference. It was truly a "free range hunt" as far as my experience went because I had to glass and then follow up on it. But it was still sport for me. [/QUOTE]
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