November 24th, 2021 was a day that I'll remember for a very long time. I had hunted hard the entire fall. The goal was simple, harvest a deer with my antique recurve bow. I hadn't connected with a whitetail with my recurve for 12 years! Mostly because I hadn't really tried. 

For the previous two years, my focus and energy to be successful at traditional bowhunting had been re-ignited. In the fall of '20 I had missed a large buck...and then had another miss at a doe at close range. I was discouraged about that, but optimistic that I could get the job done in 2021. 

Sit after sit in treestands and ground blinds came and went. My spirits remained high, but time was running out. The season for whitetails ends on November 30. Finally, on a chilly winter afternoon, grey and bleak, it happened. Here was my chance at the whitetail buck of a lifetime! 

This episode happened at the beginning of my in-the-field-podcasting recording career. Unfortunately, inexperience shows through in places. I've learned a lot since last November. But still, you get to be in the woods with Kevin and me as we track and recover this beautiful whitetail buck. 

This episode was originally aired in January of 2022. However, very few people had a chance to listen to it with the limited audience I had at the time. I am also sort of surprised that people don't go back into past episodes more than they do. The re-releases seem to be popular, however, so I will continue with that now that we are doing better with our audiences here at buzzsprout. 

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