Bambi Killer

 

The hunting season this year was shorter than most. Good for me, bad for Zach! Lately Zach has been obsessed with crossbows and compound bows. Pamida, the local home goods store, was going out of business and had a crossbow on clearance. Of course, Zach had to buy one. From the moment we brought it home, he was bragging about how he was going to be THE MEGA HUNTER because he could sneak up on any deer, including mega buck, and put it down in one shot.

Well, after two or three attempts of trying to be sneaky and the deer clearly being much smarter, he failed to even get close enough to get a shot off. He claimed he didn't have time to shoot one with the bow after that and moved on to his trusted gun.

About a week later, his brother Brands and his dad came over to the place to hunt some deer. Well, two fairly large bucks happened to be grazing on the fields and Brands managed to get a shot off and killed a fairly large buck.  It was an 8x8 and ranked third in the Wyoming Trucks Big Buck Contest, Non-Typical Category.

Zach vowed he'd get a larger one, and scoured the place to find the other buck. He never found him, so he ended up taking what he thought to be comparable to Brands'. When we went to go see the deer, a 4x5.  It was much smaller, but would have been a nice buck in a year or two.

From that day, Zach got a new nickname as "The Bambi Killer." He absolutely hates it, but it's funny!