"Today I completed my hunt for a shiny Kabuto!"

#PokemonGO: Hey guys! I just wanted to share a story with you! My story is a long one, so be warned!​So it starts about two weeks ago. I am driving back from work in the afternoon when I notice a Kabuto is at a local pokestop. "Neat", I think. Though very rare for my area, I decide it's not worth the effort to drive out of my way to get.​The next day is the same deal. I am driving home and I see it again. "Hm", I think. It is very unlikely that a Kabuto would spawn in the same place two days in a row. Then it hit me. I think I might have a nest on my hands!​Now to preface this a bit, I had no idea that there were even nests this close to me, let alone one that contained one of my top 3 yet to be obtained shinies. So on the third day, I went to check it out. And sure enough, I pull up to the spot, a local park, and I'm greeted with several Kabuto. This is awesome!​In no time I'm walking at the park every day, sometimes multiple times a day. But (pun 100% intended), it was no walk in the park. Most days were upwards of 95 degrees F (35 degrees C) and I'd be out there for hours. I even started to go there on my lunch breaks, in fear that the nest would change before I had the chance to put in a real effort.​Despite the obvious blisters, sore feet, and sweat drenching, I was still very much determined - even though the thought of actually finding the shiny was something of a fantasy. So to keep grounded, I would make little challenges to stay motivated. The most obvious of these was to catch as many Kabuto as possible. Then from that came searching for the highest CP possible, the best IVs, so on so forth. I kept looking at all those brown-shelled Kabutos and thought, "imagine if that had been shiny".​Then came today. This time I brought my dog along because she loves walks. Even though it is not actually raining, it is in Pokemon Go, so I know very well that means weather boost. I feel like I have overstayed my welcome and I can see that my dog is getting pretty tired too. I decide to make one last loop through the park. There is a little trail that winds through the woods and opens up to a kind of mountainous scene. At the threshold between the two, another Kabuto spawns.​IT'S GREEN.​I audibly gasp as I fumble around to try to catch it. I play on an iPhone, so I ineptly try and fail to swipe from the bottom of the screen to activate screen capture. Instead, a pokeball is thrown. It missed. Thank god. Though Kabuto is generally very easy to catch, I have had a good few run away. There was no way I was using just a pokeball on this. I am not taking any risks. A gold razz berry and an ultra ball is my standard for shinies. I try once again to activate screen capture. Not only did I throw another pokeball by accident, but this time, it hit. My heart sank as I watched the ball shake. I was dreading that it would break out and flee.​But none of that happened somehow. That awful throw with a just an ordinary pokeball caught the shiny Kabuto I had been working so hard for. Although weather boosted, the CP was low and the IVs were not great. But none of that mattered, because I got what I came for. After 349 Kabuto seen, my hunt for shiny Kabuto had come to an end. Bar none this was the hardest Pokemon I have ever worked for in GO. But for that reason, it is the most special as well.​If you got this far, thanks for reading!​https://ift.tt/2MITjDQ via /r/pokemongo https://ift.tt/2PWoRny