Sorry for your loss WT, but I tell you what, those kind of memories are what the hunting and shooting sports are all about.
Everyone of us at some point will have something like this happen to us with our "mentor", whether that's a father, uncle, cousin, or just a good friend. Things like...
This is no lie! Every "hump" we went on as a Weapons Company, we carried M240G, 81mm and all pieces, M2 barrell, tripod, reciever. CLU(command launch unit) for Javelin, tow tubes with sand bags in them. Just about everything but the MK19
Never had a SAW in theater, but we had two in my...
Probably this guy here. I call him the "pivot deer", I sat on a ladder rung of a center pivot for over 2 hours to get a chance at this buck. I even crawled down two towers to get closer to him. He was in weeds up to my shoulders. Finally he presented me a chest shot at 258 yards and I took...
Film it was actually the first whitetail I've killed in 21 years and the first doe I've ever killed. 200gr Federal fusion. 35 Whelen. Only the third deer I've ever killed without using A .280 Rem