DINKS

[Biggerhammer]

Funny topic that hasnt meant more to me than this year.  I drew one of the better elk tags in the state.  Hunted hard but butted heads a little with my partner.  I ended up taking a good bull IMO and was pumped because it was my first with a bow.  I was all pumped and when we got back to camp my partner (who seemed not impressed with the bull to begin with) made the comment to another guy that "he just shot a DINK."  I dont think he knew i heard it and dont care, just killed the mojo and cheapened a tag i waited 13 years for. 

Moral of the story is, if you want to call your own deer a dink, that is on you, but dont ever cheapen someone else's hunt/animal with your accessment of it.  As long as it is completely legal, they ALL have a level of greatness.  I would brag up a guy that shot a spike and did it legally before anyone that took a masher in any illegal way.

It would have been worse if that elks buddy would have heard that comment.

[jeepguy]

Lots a feedback  all different replies interesting.My angle was the fact some hunters say ''dink'' in refernce to small.The point was is either they try to make themselves seem better hunters by  how big their animals are but this they shot a dink which by all standards alot of hunters would be happy as a clam ,not either side is a better hunter but having respect for the sport and others.When that big buck finally crossesin ur scope makes  it all that more  special .