The Utah Tracker: Beth's Big Pauncy Buck

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." ---Theodore Roosevelt 1910

Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Beth's Big Pauncy Buck

31" Wide

Beth has hunted deer her entire life. After all, she is a Bell. She had yet to take a big buck though. So when I heard she drew a coveted Paunsaugunt management buck tag this year, I wanted to be a part of it. She played cat and mouse with this big guy as he was locked on a doe. After many up close encounters in the thick cedars she was finally able to get a bullet in his neck at 70 yards. It took a good hour of all of us circling in the thick underbrush with no blood trail looking for the downed buck, when Dusty finally turned him up. After lots of high fives, Beth finally has a buck of her own going on the wall.