Did a sit last night and had a shed buck come past me at last light. Judging by his body, he didn't have anything spectacular on his head when he carried. I let him walk. 

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Let him walk?
You cant eat the antlers, especially if they're not there......lol
 
BH

Boy. the deer sure were out in force in the fields last night on my way home from work.  I lost count @ 70 on my drive home....
 
Only one that I could tell was a small buck, close to the road in the fading light. I am sure more of them were, just too far away to put horns on while driving.
 
Going to try and convince my daughter to do one last sit Saturday afternoon, if she is up for it.

Did a 4 hour sit this afternoon. Brrrr.... it was cold. Thought it was gonna happen but it didn't. Had 5 doe at 40 yards for quite some time but they never offered me a shot. They were feeding in the thick but I could never find a path to get an arrow through. 
 
Back at it tomorrow for the last hurrah!

Well, ended up seeing 15 yesterday afternoon. Good movement the whole time. Only problem is I have nothing to show for it! The season is officially over. 
 
The good news is I head to South Carolina on a hog hunt the first weekend in March and Ontario in June for a bear hunt, so it won't be long and I will be back in a stand. 

Best of luck on your hunting adventures.

I got my crate from Africa yesterday. It is hard to imagine how they get that much stuff in that small of a crate. We picked it up at BWI ourselves and the import agent had ever “I” dotted and “T” crossed. It took about 15 minutes at the warehouse.

Popped the lid when I got home and the mounts are absolutely fabulous. All completely backwards from the direction I asked them to be mounted, but the best taxidermy work I’ve seen anywhere.

I can work with them being backwards by just switching the wall places. It might be my fault in understanding whether the direction was from my perspective or the animals (the instructions were a bit confusing because they were obviously translated to English).

I forgot how big the kudu and the gemsbok were and how tiny the Steenbok was. The kudu is just a tad over 60 inches from top of horn to the bottom of the mount. It is good the trophy room (which is about 50% done because I thought I had a year before the mounts came) has 9.5 foot ceilings. Even at putting the horns almost to the ceiling, it would be very easy for one to “kiss the kudu.”

DarDys
Popped the lid when I got home and the mounts are absolutely fabulous. All completely backwards from the direction I asked them to be mounted, but the best taxidermy work I’ve seen anywhere.

Glad you mounts turned out great. I would imagine there is a lot of anxiety when you get ready to pop the lid and take a look. After spending that kind of cash perfection is imperative. I have heard mixed reports about African Taxidermy. From outstanding to horrible.