We all dream of getting that big whitetail buck of our dreams but can you imagine having so many bucks in the field in front of you that you can’t figure which one to shoot? Yea, man I say to myself, “throw me in that brier patch! Right!”

That one on the left is a big 8 point, the other is a 9 point but looks young and perhaps not quite as majestic looking, and the third, you can see the nice rack over his tail as he is faced the other way but not sure. You mumble to your guide that you need help choosing which one to take and then the guide says yes you can take the one on the left, he’s a dandy, but there is a “much” larger one that may come out if you want to wait. The hunter looks at the guide and whispers, “You have got to be kidding me.”

The hunter waits.

The last photons of light fade to purple, all you can see are deer silhouette’s. Shooting light has passed, and with it a chance at that dandy whitetail the guide talked about. You both sneak out of the blind as quiet as possible and boogie out of there with your headlamps turned on. The hunter, upset with the missed opportunity and with his decision.

This scenario often plays out… Back at the cabin it becomes a well earned campfire story of I should’a or could’a. The embers glow red and seem to pulsate when the wind blows on the fire, you look deep into the embers as humans did for a millenia. You recant the story as other hunters listen. “No way”, one hunter says, “you had three bucks in front of you like that!” “Yes,he said sheepishly; “And I let them go hoping for a bigger one!” The guide chimes in, “yes the one that we were waiting for is “much” bigger!”

Another hunter says, ” I would’a waited too… after all, that was only your first night out and more days to hunt.” Tomorrow will renew your spirit…And a smile returns…

And so the story goes, on a Texas Trophy Hunt!

Good Hunting!

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