I find that it is just amazing that I forget so many things from day to day. Yet I can look take one glance at any antler in my garage and I can replay every detail about how I acquired that antler! From the years spent along side my father to the hunts shared with friends, I can tell ya everything that happened that day.

I hope that when I am long gone, my boy will be able to pick up an antler and re-live the time spent together afield. My wife doesn't quite understand that though. That is why all of my antlers are in the garage! LOL! I moved the last deer head out there today. She strategically created a "beach theme" in our living room and stated "the deer heads just seem out of place".

Has anyone else experienced this?

Yup. One of my favorite mounted deer heads is a smallish 10 pt that I shot one day when my son was about 8 or 9. He was trailing along with me while I was still hunting some thick stuff that contained some pretty impressive-sized rubs. We stopped to look at one and my son said, "I'd sure like to see the deer that made that rub."

Well, no sooner had he said that than we saw antler tips bobbing along above the brush headed straight toward us. He stepped out into a clearing about 25 yards away facing straight at us. I had my scope on him as he stepped out and had to take a straight-on neck shot that dropped him like a sack of taters.

It was the biggest deer my son had ever seen and he was beside himself. To this day I still remember every second of that encounter when I look at that deer.

Wives will never understand. But tell yours that I've seen deer on the beach eating dead fish. You could probably find one to put in the deer's mouth to make it more realistic.

Oh, and after reading your post in the screen name thread, just wanted to say thanks for what you do.

I hope that when I am long gone, my boy will be able to pick up an antler and re-live the time spent together afield. My wife doesn't quite understand that though. That is why all of my antlers are in the garage! LOL!