eelgrass
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I have a friend I've known for about 20 years. I met him at work and we fish together a lot. He told me that he lived in Wyoming for 5 years back in the 1970's working in a mine out of Rock Springs. I asked him if he ever did any hunting while living in Wyoming? He said he wasn't much of a hunter, but he hooked up with a couple guys he worked with at the mine and shot a couple antelope and one deer. He said the deer he shot was up out of LaBarge. It was a heck of a big buck that dressed out at 325. He said his brother liked the rack so much that he offered to have it mounted. His brother keeps it at his house. That was the end of our conversation, and many years go by.
Last week I picked him up at his house and we went fishing. We had one of our better days where we both limited on big Redtail perch. Anyhow, we're driving home and he said his brother is moving and he came over and dropped off his deer mount. He hung it in the back room and offered to show it to me when we got home. I said "Sure, I'd like to see it." Imagine my surprise.
He said he shot it with a 7mm Mag with open sights at about 150 yards. Someone in Rock Springs did the taxidermy and he admits he was pretty disappointed with it.
Last week I picked him up at his house and we went fishing. We had one of our better days where we both limited on big Redtail perch. Anyhow, we're driving home and he said his brother is moving and he came over and dropped off his deer mount. He hung it in the back room and offered to show it to me when we got home. I said "Sure, I'd like to see it." Imagine my surprise.
He said he shot it with a 7mm Mag with open sights at about 150 yards. Someone in Rock Springs did the taxidermy and he admits he was pretty disappointed with it.
