My cousin worked as a guide for years. One day when showing me his best deer, he told me that the one thing that every hunter wants is the whitetail of a lifetime to hang on the wall.Tod Olsen, core member of Colonial Outdoors was hunting in Ohio on public game land a few weeks back. He told me that where he was hunting was so steep that he had to dig his heels in to keep from falling down.
At 10:00 AM, he heard a ruckus from behind him and this big boy trotted by him. Tod shot him at about 13 yards while the brute was still moving, aiming his bow at the deer's shoulder so as to hit the vitals when he let go. Fortunately, it happened so fast that Tod told me he didn't have time to get "Buck Fever" and his arrow flew straight and it was a quick and ethical harvest.
This bad boy would score in the 130 range and went north of 220 lbs. While I'm not a betting man, it would be hard to say that a bigger one will come Tod's way, at least in the near future so hitting him was the once in a lifetime shot you just don't want to miss. I would regret it every time I went into a stand if I'd missed this big guy.
Tod wrote the final epitaph that sums it all up, "God is good!".
I hope each of you gets a chance to see or get a shot at such a fine animal. Here's to good hunting and that God will bless you with such an opportunity. Just make sure you complete the job like Tod did.
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