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Post by dbd870 on Feb 19, 2016 9:58:03 GMT -5
Thanks for posting those pictures Woody - adding those to the collection. Yeah we may have been the only ones out - if not there weren't many more. Miserable weather.
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Post by budd on Feb 19, 2016 10:05:07 GMT -5
I didn't kill this one but still my favorite buck...the tears in my sons eye's when we found this deer (his first) will never be forgotten. This to me is better then the biggest buck in B&C record book.
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Post by dbd870 on Feb 19, 2016 11:01:11 GMT -5
Great first deer.
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Post by StingyRog on Feb 20, 2016 21:41:44 GMT -5
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Post by medic22 on Feb 21, 2016 12:03:36 GMT -5
I shot this one two years ago. Its a good buck, but not a great one. Whats interesting with it, is its the first buck i had shot in 20 years of hunting. I was never big on chasing bucks, because does were just easy to get. In the last few years i started chasing bucks(mainly cause i was on public land and didnt bow hunt). Anyway, onto the story. My first year hunting public land in combination dwarfs woods/Ag/CRP was a bust, I just had no idea how to hunt it. The second year i got this guy, a buddy called me up the night before opening to tell me he couldnt hunt. He told me to hunt his stand cause he knew this deer would be there, and didnt want someone else shooting it(he was chasing a different buck. I got in the stand pretty early, within 20 minutes of legal shooting I had 3 does come in on a ridge from my left. I got caught up watching them and when i looked to the right, this guy had snuck in, he was about 40 yards out on the same ridge. Now to rewind and explain while this was almost catastrophic. This was the first year i used my 300 blackout pistol, and i had this great idea to use a red dot, a Primary Arms aimpoint clone to be exact. When i sighted it in, i discover the DQ mount had come lose, tightened it up and it was good to go. I stuck it in the safe and left it alone till opening day. Back to the hunt, this SHOULD have been an easy shot, broadside at 40 yards. I put the dot on him, and realized red dots suck for this. Squeezed the trigger, he jumped and ran 5 yards in and stopped, broadside facing the other way. I shook off the buck fever and shot again. He kind of hopped a couple steps forward and stopped. Well......i took a few more deep breaths and aimed again, then it hit me. I reached up and the red dot wiggled. I took it off and flipped up my BUIS.........those suck for hunting too. At this point i was tired of playing around, so i aimed for the neck at the base of the shoulder and fired. This time he took off, he made it 20 yards and started slowing down, stopped at 50 yards, then dropped. The bullet dissected the trachea. Ended up dressing out to 150#. That gun no longer has BUIS or a red dot, i bought a Nikon P300 the next day.
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Post by familytradition on Feb 24, 2016 10:29:04 GMT -5
This thread really got me thinking about which buckis my best. The best score is an easy one, but which one is MY best one. The first was special, but will always have an asterisk for me because he was gut shot my someone else when I finished him off. The next 3 were all shot from same stand on opening day 3 years in a row! The first was my first buck from a stand. The middle was a great hunt in the fog; the first deer that I tracked and loaded by myself. The third has a small 1 inch droptine. The next one was my first mature buck, but has an extremely ugly rack. The next 2 were the first time in my life that I shot bucks smaller than the ones before, but after not hunting much while in college I was just glad to kill some deer. The next deer get into only shooting mature deer after. First one was a heart breaker for me; I thought I had one of the big 8's that my family enjoyed killing off the farm we hunted only to find that I shot the worlds biggest 5 pointer. Next came a very even 9 point, the first not 8 point that I ever shot. This is a very beautiful deer, but could have older by our standards. I just couldn't pass him up. Then came a broken off 10 with 2 main beams on one side. I couldn't tell exactly what he was, but knew he had a mess on his head. Then came a buck that is very special to me: the first one that I shot when my son was born and the first time that my grandfather, dad, and I all killed nice bucks in the same year. Then came my first bow buck that I didn't find until a month later. Then came the last buck from the only farm that I ever killed a deer on and the one on the year that my daughter was born. Which brings me to this year. My family bought a farm and I killed my biggest buck to date on it. These are all bucks that I have killed and the BEST is hard for me to pick out. They all have great signifance to me; they represent a lot of time spent with family and friends doing what I love. Sorry for long and indirect answer, but it's how I feel.
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Post by onebentarrow on Jul 29, 2016 12:49:40 GMT -5
I want to thank all that posted pictures and stories and to get this up top again so Maby some one else will have some pictures to show.
Onebentarrow
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Post by onebentarrow on Jul 29, 2016 12:52:21 GMT -5
Come on Mr John Snow. I know you got a good buck with a great story.
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Post by wesb81219 on Jul 29, 2016 19:32:23 GMT -5
Lots of great pictures and stories to go with them. I hope I do as well as ALL of you folks have and get something to add to this sort of thread after the upcoming season.
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Post by scrub-buster on Jul 29, 2016 20:45:40 GMT -5
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Post by lawrencecountyhunter on Aug 22, 2016 7:59:04 GMT -5
I don't know how I missed this thread the first time around. Pretty neat seeing the bucks and reading the stories. This buck would have to be my best, not only because it's my biggest so far but also because it was my first deer. It was the second day of gun season, 2002, about 15 minutes before dark. Killed him at about 80 yards with a 12 gauge slug.
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Post by nfalls116 on Aug 22, 2016 16:58:28 GMT -5
I don't know how I missed this thread the first time around. Pretty neat seeing the bucks and reading the stories. This buck would have to be my best, not only because it's my biggest so far but also because it was my first deer. It was the second day of gun season, 2002, about 15 minutes before dark. Killed him at about 80 yards with a 12 gauge slug. hard to not be an addict when you start like that
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Post by Land Between the Lakes on Sept 19, 2016 17:37:45 GMT -5
Nice bucks!
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Post by oldhoyt on Sept 20, 2016 8:11:38 GMT -5
My best buck is from 2005. It was 10/28 I think. I remember the kids were trick-or-treating. Hunting a trail connecting a thicket to a corn field, right over a scrape. This deer walked in about dusk, 15 yds away broadside. I drew back and released, and the arrow smacked off some unseen twig and hit the ground between his front feet. He jumped to the side and stood for a moment, then began to walk, quartering away. I had another arrow on the string and let it fly at about 25 yds. This one took him back a bit, but I knew it was definitely in the liver, if not one lung also. The thicket was so small that I knew I couldn't trail him that night. So, after dark I headed to the truck. Came back at first light. It was drizzling and I was not encouraged to see that the cottonwoods had decided to drop all of their leaves during the night. No visible tracks or blood. After quite a few failed attempts at the blood trail, I began a grid search and after an hour or so found him in the little clearing you can see behind him. That happens to be the back yard of a residence. I had talked to the owner and he said I could access the thicket from his side when the wind was wrong for my other approach route, so I drove around and basically loaded him up.
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