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Post by copperdog on Mar 16, 2008 0:54:48 GMT -5
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Post by Jim on Mar 16, 2008 6:56:43 GMT -5
I missed a big buck this yr on the first day just after shootin hours started.....never expected the dang thing to come from where he did.Took me by surprise and i saw his rack real clear thru the thick fog so even though i cant honestly say how many he did have i can honestly say there wer 4 on the main beem as he was runnin full tilt away.I shot 2 times but no blood no hair or anything......Guess the buck fever hit hard!
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Post by copperdog on Mar 16, 2008 10:29:15 GMT -5
me two but open day of bow
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badger
Predator Hunter
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Post by badger on Mar 18, 2008 19:29:04 GMT -5
Oct 18 and thinking it was too warm to hunt ....went out anyways....getting close to dusk and I'd been seeing someone walking around the property line about 160yrds away...so no deer Then this guy walks down the nieghbors lane way straight towards me and stops 200ft away and waves at me ....AAAAHHHHH 3 hrs for NOTHING! is what I thought as I lowered my head and waved back....he turned and walked away ...I turned my head to check my laneway turned back and right where he was just standing.... out of the brush pops this big nose followd by an 8pt rack....that buck watched the guy walk away and then stepped out onto the logging road turned and headed my way.....17 yrds out he turned and came up on our land and as he circled around infront of me I shot....His rack wasn't my biggest but he dressed out 150#.
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Post by PA Hillbilly on Mar 18, 2008 19:33:27 GMT -5
Nice
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Post by PA Hillbilly on Mar 18, 2008 21:03:51 GMT -5
Okay Here is my story from 1992. We had hunted this area for a big buck & he always elluded us.
A couple of my buddies & myself were hunting a timbercut that ran down through a hollow. We jumped a buck out & my buddy Tim shot from one side of the hollow across to the other side through brush. We had snow so it was easy to pick it out. About 10:00am
We checked for blood & there was a little. Tim & I took the track. When I say we took the track I mean We took the track. We was alot younger & we both liked to push deer hard when we tracked them. (Not any more)LOL We tracked him all day up over the mountain. We had crossed one road into a big hollow that we had never been in before. We pushed on. We finally came to another road about 4:00 pm. We knew where we were & decided to start walking for our trucks.(about 4 miles away). We were both soaking wet from sweat & also from the snow hanging on the trees. Along came a guy we knew driving a toyota pickup with another hunter in with him. He said we could ride the back. We took the ride.
The next day we thought we would get back after him. We parked 1 truck where we thought he would head for & took my truck up to where we left his track. We only went about 250 yards on the track & we jumped him. I got a glimpse of a deer but didn't know it was him. It was. He had layed there all night in the same place. We got shooting at him about 10:00 am. No new weep holes. I failed to mention that he all but quit bleeding the first day just a couple of hours into the track. He would run down squirrel tracks, people tracks, other deer tracks, anything to try to loose us. We could keep it straight because his feet was so big & he had one foot that turned to the right. We crossed 2 more dirt roads. One of us staying on the track & the other guy flanking. At 1:00 he screwed up & broke out through open timber. Tim shot & missed then I connected hitting him high in the back, dropping him in his tracks. I had to shoot him again to finish him off.
We was about 400 yards off of the last road we crossed. We drug him out there hoping for someone to come along. Acouple of guys came along & gave us a ride to my truck. It took 20 minutes to get there. We ended up going about 5 miles as the crow flys. I would have to guess we probably tracked him 10-14 miles over the 2 days.
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Post by PA Hillbilly on Mar 18, 2008 21:05:38 GMT -5
I forgot to mention he was an 11 point. The foot that was turned was broke & healed. It had to have been broke from year or so before.
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Post by PA Hillbilly on Mar 18, 2008 21:20:52 GMT -5
I was going to put up a picture & my wife has it full from the taxidermy show. I'll put it up tomarrow.
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Post by Jim on Mar 18, 2008 21:46:07 GMT -5
Wow now thats a track job!
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Post by copperdog on Mar 19, 2008 17:31:32 GMT -5
that cool
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