Post by fullrut on Nov 28, 2008 18:56:43 GMT -5
Saturday November 22 I was lucky enough to be invited to Big Oaks with my good friend BOONER1331 from this site. We had an area I knew quite well. I had already taken an 8pt and doe earlier in the month from this area. This area had also produced an additional 8pt. and a 10pt. in previous years for me, so I knew the area pretty well. I know some people who live on the outside of the fence by this area. They had told me they had been seeing a large buck with a sticker point on his right side. Well all morning as I sat in my stand I was thinking of seeing that deer. I was perched 25 feet up in a poplar in a spot I like to call the double funnel. At 10:05 I saw the sticker buck come out of a thicket about 100yds away. He came down to the creek in front of me at 65yds and started pawing the ice so he could get a drink. As soon as he had the ice broke he lowered his head to take a drink. As soon as he did that I had the crosshairs on him, I put them about 6" above his brow tines, squeezed the trigger and dropped him in his tracks. He fell on the ice and was dead instantly. I knew he had 1 sticker but when I approached him I could see that he in fact had 4 stickers making him a 12pt. I have said all year you don't go to Big Oaks to see alot of deer you go there to see 1. Well this day I saw 1 and killed 1. He is a 140" mainframe 8 with 12" of stickers. Getting him back to the truck was a job in itself. It was to thick to take him through the woods so I opted to take him down the creek. The creek was 1.5" thick ice. So I had to walk down the creek and bust up the ice then pull the deercart through the icy water. Needless to say I was worn out when he was finally loaded in the truck. This turned out to be a great day that started at 2:00 a.m. so we could be the first ones in line and get our spot and it really payed off. Thanks Mark, I really owe you one.
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