After 15 years and 900 hours...victory is sweet!

[ny bowhunter]

This is my first deer mount...ever! After 15 years of trying!!





I feel like it is quite an accomplishment, although explaining that to anyone other than TBH folks is less than satisfying. Outside of my wife and brother-in-law, I am hard-pressed to find anyone that can appreciate the time, effort, skill and emotion that went into getting this deer - now trophy.

This fall:



When I put him up on my wall last week I got to thinking, "Exactly just how much time DID I put in to getting him?" So I did a quick calculation:

• 2 deer hunts a season,
• at 3 days per hunt,
• equaling 30 hours of sitting at post each trip,
• for a total of 60 hours each year,
• over an uninterrupted period of 15 years,

= 900 @#$%^&* hours of sitting stone still, shivering my tail off, holding in my pee and..., enduring hunger pangs, being rained on, snowed on, hailed on and sleeted on, waking up at 3:45 a.m. each morning, spending hours and even days not seeing a single whitetail, hunting when I’m dog sick, oh for goodness sake…what’s wrong with me?!

Anyway, it was worth it.

Here's the original thread: http://discussions.texasbowhunter.co...read.php?t=178

[skeeter]

Very nice. Congrats on the hard earned, well deserved trophy.

[Eric4x4]

Congrats glad to see it finally paid off, looks good.

[aggie2000tx]

Nice looking mount. Congrats again

[meshmover67]

congrats now go get another lol, nice deer the mount looks great

[Tuffbroadhead]

Big congrats!!!

[ranchdog]

Good job man and congrats. It is a super mount.

But dude you have got to find a better place to hunt than CENTRAL PARK IN NEW YORK CITY. No wonder it took you 15 years to kill a deer. There must have only been one deer in that park. Get to Texas as fast as you can. Oh and bring a pocket full of money for a deer lease.

Congrats, and welcome to the fire....RD

[Rsatt]

Congrats, NY. The harder the earned, the more you appreciate it.

You need to move to Texas

[Chew]

Congrats on a well deserved trophy. You've got more patience than me!

[ny bowhunter]

Doh! LOL Ranchdog, he isn't my first deer, just my biggest. I should've made that clearer...

As for Central Park, I think the only critters left there are pidgeons and rats! I left NYC back in 1990 - live on Long Island now but mostly hunt upstate NY. Although I never got a shot off at a pidgeon or rat, I did put a hurtin' on a mugger or two!

And of course, I'm an annual visitor to the great state of Texas to see my in-laws and kill pigs. (Not at the same time, of course. First visit in-laws, then kill pigs.)

[bearslayer]

ny bowhunter congrats on your accomplishment. I live 25 minutes from New York and hunt in both Mass and Vermont. Good deer are very hard to come by. My dad just got his first mountable deer this year after 25 years. It's real hard to see a buck nevermind a buck over 1 1/2 years old.

[Texastrophy]

Congratulations, but I think you might consider moving your stand. That's way too much time to spend in one stand.

[Graybow]

Way to stick with it! Cogradulations!

[DaveC]

"= 900 @#$%^&* hours of sitting stone still, shivering my tail off, holding in my pee and..., enduring hunger pangs, being rained on, snowed on, hailed on and sleeted on, waking up at 3:45 a.m. each morning, spending hours and even days not seeing a single whitetail, hunting when I’m dog sick, oh for goodness sake…what’s wrong with me?!"

Too funny, congrats on a nice buck!

[Burnadell]

Good job, there, Jordan. I also went about 18 years before getting my bow killed buck...kept passing up smaller ones until I realized I better start shooting. After all those hunts, it makes the trophy that much nicer.

From the description of where you live, you must be neighbors with Tred Barta, huh?