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Author Topic: My best buck ever (Hope this works)  (Read 2423 times)
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« on: November 12, 2010, 07:57:59 am »

Thanks.  That was one helluva morning LOL.

    I passed up a spike, which I never do, and a huge doe.  Both of those deer were acting nervous and I could honestly smell this buck on occasion.  The spike came out first and kept looking back to the west , he would take a couple bites of honeysuckle and then freeze, I knew it wasn't me he was worried about.  He stayed  in the open a couple of minutes before moving into the heavy brush.  About 5 minutes later this monster of a doe came out, hit the opening and froze looking to the west.  She wheeled and bolted and about 10 seconds later this big buck came out trotting across the opening which is only about 30 yards wide.  I didn't have time to count points, or really look at him, I just knew he had lots of rack and lots of body mass.  I threw my rifle up and got a full scope, as soon as I saw hair I squeezed the trigger.  I shot him in the neck at about 50 yards.
   LOL I was shaking like the proverbial leaf !  I waited about 15 minutes then got out of the stand and went to the deer.  My Dad was hunting that morning also, so I had to wait for him to come to me.  I sat down with the deer, drank a cup of coffee from my thermos, smoked a cigarette, just generally making myself comfortable waiting on Dad when I heard the unmistakable sound of a big boar popping his tusk, followed by that low rumbling grunt that spells trouble.  This was followed by grunts from smaller hogs.  The hogs sounded like they were about 10 - 15 yards from me to the NE.  I quickly decided that sitting on the ground with my deer was not the place to be, even with a rifle so I got up and moved back to the stand really hoping the hogs would decide to show themselves but they didn't.
    Dad finally showed up after an eternity LOL, he was grinnin ear to ear over my buck, I was to of course.  I told him I would stay with the deer while he went to get the jeep.  I listened to the hogs feeding the whole time he was gone, considered stalking them and decided against it since I had no desire to come face to face with that big boar in the thick brush, rifle or not. 
     Dad got back with the jeep, he took pics of me and the deer, we loaded him up and headed to his house to butcher him.  It was an exciting weekend.  I saw a total of 19 deer in 2 days, one of them was a buck bigger than the one I killed, Dad said he saw 21.  This is not a game fenced area this is open range.  We just have lots of deer.
     
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