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Post by Woody Williams on Dec 3, 2007 17:56:54 GMT -5
Anyone know anything on this buck?  
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Post by jajwrigh on Dec 3, 2007 18:02:51 GMT -5
I know that he is HUGE!!
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Post by hunterjosh8 on Dec 3, 2007 18:23:20 GMT -5
he is a MONSTER!!!!!
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Post by hountzmj on Dec 3, 2007 18:58:48 GMT -5
Looks suspicious to me... photoshop?
--hountzmj
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Post by Hoosier Hunter on Dec 3, 2007 19:57:57 GMT -5
Iowa has really been in the headlines this year.
I wanna move there...
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Post by woodmaster on Dec 3, 2007 20:43:58 GMT -5
BuckTracker: A 212 B&C Iowa Monster Another great deer story came to me from Iowa the other day. Steve Hanson, a friend, guide, and whitetail fanatic from Monroe County, actually knew the buck pictured here quite well. “We had seen him several times in velvet and had lots of trail camera photos of him,” Steve says. “We knew he was a monster and I had a client coming in for the archery opener. I hoped he’d have a chance at the buck.” The client did indeed get a crack at the buck. Unfortunately, after a thorough blood trailing job, they were unable to find the deer. Steve is so busy guiding hunters he rarely has time to hunt himself. But when he had a free afternoon during the resident muzzleloader season, he decided to visit the same area. “I didn’t really have this buck on my radar,” Steve says. “But there were others nearby worth looking for.” Despite some lousy weather (rain, wind, and occasional thunder) Steve crawled up in a tree stand. “The rain just kept getting worse, but deer were feeding heavily. Suddenly a big buck came into the field. I had to watch him for a long time before I knew the deer I was looking at, it was raining so hard.” Steve made a 120 yard shot, and found the buck soon after. Interestingly, Steve shot the buck only 200 yards from where his client had wounded it only weeks before. “It was really interesting,” he says. “When you add up all the sightings and pictures, this buck was a real homebody. He had a very small core area.” www.whitetail365.comHunt Stats Date: October 15, 2007 Location: Monroe County, Iowa Weight: unknown Points: 17 Green Score: 212 B&C (gross non-typical) Weapon: Savage muzzleloader Method: Tree stand |
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Post by Sasquatch on Dec 3, 2007 22:06:37 GMT -5
I think the deer's size is real--- you can tell by comparing it to the man in the picture, who, if we compare him to the muzzleloader he holds in the first pic, appears to be around six feet tall. The first picture looks odd--where is the butt? Maybe coyotes got it or it's back half is in a depression. The second pic looks exaggerated because of the camera angle and the deer's extreme spread. In the third picture you can see his hands on the rack, which shows that the deer really does have a big spread, and gives a more realistic impression of the deer's size. The color, lighting and focus appear to match on the deer and the background, so I think it's a real deer. The first two pictures just look odd because of the angle and perspective. And the missing butt.
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Post by cooncrazy on Dec 3, 2007 22:46:59 GMT -5
i have to agree, the 1st picture look fake, the deer has no rear end, and the plants around it are not tall enough to find a whole back end of a deer that size... looks to be a little misleading....i would like to see more pictures of this deer...
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Post by danf on Dec 3, 2007 22:53:48 GMT -5
Those pics were being discussed a couple of weeks ago on Bowsite. Same discussion as here.  |
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Post by Gunsafe on Dec 4, 2007 0:14:14 GMT -5
savage 10 ml - 2 strikes again !!!
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Post by Woody Williams on Dec 4, 2007 9:53:26 GMT -5
i have to agree, the 1st picture look fake, the deer has no rear end, and the plants around it are not tall enough to find a whole back end of a deer that size... looks to be a little misleading....i would like to see more pictures of this deer... I've got to believe that he did not find it right away and the coyotes took care of the back half. That happened to Woodmaster last year during bow season in Illinois and we had to do some "creative photography" to cover up the eaten hind quarters. |
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Post by dbd870 on Dec 4, 2007 10:07:43 GMT -5
Don't fight it guys - Remember Iowa has all the big bucks - That's the place to go on a road trip, yeah, yeah that's it!
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