. . . To him who has once tasted the reckless independence, the haughty self-reliance, the sense of irresponsible freedom, which the forest life engenders, civilization thenceforth seems flat and stale. Its pleasures are insipid, its pursuits wearisome, its conventionalities, duties, and mutual dependence alike tedious and disgusting. The entrapped wanderer grows fierce and restless, and pants for breathing-room. His path, it is true, was choked with difficulties, but his body and soul were hardened to meet them; it was beset with dangers, but these were the very spice of his life, gladdening his heart with exulting self-confidence, and sending the blood through his veins with a livelier current. The wilderness, rough, harsh, and inexorable, has charms more potent in their seductive influence than all the lures of luxury and sloth. And often he on whom it has cast its magic finds no heart to dissolve the spell, and remains a wanderer and an Ishmaelite to the hour of his death.
Francis Parkman
5x5 Mountain Whitetail I called in
Looking for the fighting bucks he had heard.
Debating taking him with my pistol.
Decided he was not quite what I was after, he had some broken points.
Getting close to a nice healthy buck in full rut always makes for a great day in the woods.
I keep forgetting my camera takes video, here is a short clip as he tried to walk away.
Looking for the fighting bucks he had heard.
Decided he was not quite what I was after, he had some broken points.
Getting close to a nice healthy buck in full rut always makes for a great day in the woods.
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Awesome. Looks like you have been having a great season!
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