Texas Deer Season 2009

This season at deer camp was one of the best yet. Everybody ended up taking a good buck and either a doe or a management spike buck. I finished my season this past weekend with a solid seven point buck. Not a trophy by any means but one I was real happy to get. I would post some pics but I decided to do something a little different for this post.

Most hunters go into the field for the same ultimate outcome – game in the freezer. It’s a good reason to hunt but for most of the general public who doesn’t hunt its hard for them to understand. “Why do you spend so much time and effort for wild game when you can go to Wal-Mart and get what you need”; they think but are polite enough not to ask. There’s a whole mess of reasons “why”. But how do you explain the amazing and unbelievable things you see and hear (or don’t hear for that matter) to folks who never get up before the sun, or spend a whole day out in the wilds alone, watch a hawk snag dinner right out of the field, or a couple of tom turkeys spar. They don’t actually ever watch the sun go down second by second and contemplate how finite and precise God has made everything in nature to run like clockwork, day after day, after day (with or without man I might add). The above photo was taken on the last morning of my Texas deer season this year. Ill share it instead of the deer we took and hopefully you can enjoy a little bit of what I had the pleasure of experiencing many times this year, and hopefully Ill experience many more times to come. I won’t ramble but I would like to offer this suggestion. Make time to get outdoors, make it a family and friends event, and make it often.