Cheer up.
Straight out of basic training at the age of 18 & still in love with the SLR 7.62, and having read all the books of the day, Rex Forester, Philip Holden, Mike Bennett, I went out and shot my first deer.
Then spent a frustrating, almost 2 years, doing everything wrong till I tripped over my second.
But in those days, any young up and coming, had to compete with Deer Cullers, meat hunters, spotlighters, jetboaters & helicopters. Not to mention the large noisy groups of club trampers with their standard demoralizing question "did you catch anything"
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