Camo | December 2, 2009

Rick and Tammy, Just wanted to properly thank you guys for the trip of a lifetime.  We are planing our next trip now.  I bet I’ve told fifty people about Buffalo Mountain Ranch and they all are planning a trip for next year.  P.S. Tammy,  don’t forget to email me when some one kills a big one on ‘the curve’  Thanks for a great trip.

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Camo | December 2, 2009

Rick, Tammy and Yerger:  How can I explain how much it means to me that even when I made a not-so-great shot, you all went out and looked hard and found my buck?  He came in at 30 yards early that morning; proudly, without hesitation.  I thought I was so calm when I drew my bow.  I was not; I dropped my arm the littlest bit on my follow through and hit him low in the middle.  He was mortally wounded and ran a little ways off.  He lay down for 15 minutes, then rose and walked slowly off to the west.  I agonized over my poor hit.  I called Rick immediately, waited some hours and slipped out of the blind to return to camp.  After 7 hours, we began tracking his blood trail.  Pebbles and Rick in the lead, we jumped the buck at least once.  We decided to wait overnight.  With both Chili and Pebbles, we began again from the last blood the day before.  The blood petered out.  Pebbles was still game, but we’d been hours and she is an older dog…we decided to go back to camp until the next day.  Unfortunately, I was leaving the next day as I had commitments at work on Monday.  You said you’d keep looking…and that next day, Larry and Rick were in that canyon country when Larry found my buck dead in his bed.  What a gift.  I am so impressed on your fabulous follow through.  People will tell you all the time that they will do something for you and so many times nothing comes of it.  YOU say you will do something and you DO what you say…that’s special in this day and age.  I am also very grateful for your helping me to recognize that sometimes, when hunting, a bad shot can happen.  It wasn’t meant to be that way, but it happened and it’s healthier to move forward the best we can.  I could have felt badly in camp, or in a blind…going back out into a hunting situation was the best decision and I appreciate the perspective and balance I regained by doing so.  Thank you for a great life lesson and for recovering my awesome buck!
See you next year!

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