This is his 5th hunting season. He's 13. He's shot 1-2 deer a year annually and some javalinas. This one is the biggest by far. but he's shot a couple others that were nice deer too. He has a twin brother who is a little better about getting up and getting going in the morning and so because of that his brother has tended to end up with some of the better bucks. Benjamin got up and got going Saturday morning though and it paid off. He was pretty excited, as he should be. heck i was pretty excited.

was cool too. I've never had a deer mounted before...but this one to me at least just seemed like such a dark horned sort of iconic looking south Texas buck i sorta figured why not. so we took it to a local taxidermist closer to home. there were a handful of deer being dropped off. we process all our own deer so boys have never been to a meat locker or anything. they got to look at what all was getting dropped off and what all was in the cooler. when Benjamin walked up with his horn/cape man he had all their attention. he got to tell his hunting story. I don't know who any of them were, but much appreciated to some other local hunters who listened to him and celebrated it with him.