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Post by mullis56 on Oct 18, 2008 23:25:02 GMT -5
Alright, I have had a long go of it up here....not really but staying out all day is LONG sit. First night saw 50+/- deer and 2 good bucks way to far away to get a shot at. Sat all day Thursday and saw one decent buck and I let him walk, about 9:30am. Saw several other deer just 1-1/2 year old bucks and TONS and TONS of does. Then Friday, went deeper into the same area and had about 200 acres (big I know, but it was a HUGE field and it was fingered back down to be somewhat narrow) of alfalfa field around me, and the deer have been hammering the fields as they are on the only green things left up here. Lets back up it was 14 degrees on Friday morning, and didn't get much above 25 all day and their was a steady breeze. Up in this area baiting is needed because there is so much bush and not many fields, but I was around one and the bait was on the edge of the woods and the field. Bait is alfalfa bails and oats. Then about 10:15am I saw a buck come accross the field and bedded down close to the edge of the field looking towards the bait, but he was 250+ yards away. He proceeded to lay there all day until about 6:00pm!!! It was a long sit of looking and thinking and not thinking he'd get up and give me a shot, etc. Finally he got up when there were does up in the field and I had decided long before this that he was a good buck, and I was going to shot anytime I could. I did and connected at about 170 yards and he didn't go 40 yards, as light and temps were dropping faster then you could image and my excitement was overwhelming!!! I was literrally trying to run over to him to see him....I guessed he was 160" buck last night. We left him overnight as we were 20 minute 4 wheeler ride to the truck and the guide has a ranger but we had 4 wheeler last night and no room for dad, guide, deer and I. This morning we went and got him with the ranger....last night I couldn't sleep too good kept thinking about how this all happened and how fortunate and lucky I was! The guide kept saying last night that I killed a pig, and I said what do you think 160" he said no, 170's!!! I didn't believe him because the deer doesn't have long tines like a 170's deer would maybe 11" max and only 10 pointer.....well we took a ton of pics today and skinned him out for the indians and then caped him out. Then we put the tape to him.....188" green.....I don't know all of the particulars of scoring a deer or what is deducted, etc...but it has 7.25" mass measurement and 24.25" inside spread and 24" + beams!!! Buck of a lifetime for sure! I am on slow connection and I will get pics posted after I get back and heading back on Tuesday.....so mid week I should get some pics up. Sorry for the long read but I am on cloud nine right now!
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Post by hoosier on Oct 19, 2008 0:49:25 GMT -5
Way to go Donnie!!! Can't wait to see some pics of him. Sounds like an absolute GAGGER!!!
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Post by bsutravis on Oct 19, 2008 1:45:55 GMT -5
I saw the pics and this buck is HUGE!!!!! I mean, coke bottle bases and just mass that runs all the way to the tips. It is an absolute S T U D buck! Very happy for ya bud, congrats!!!!
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Post by bsutravis on Oct 19, 2008 1:47:23 GMT -5
PS. I'll get some pics up later this morning when I get back home. It's a monster!
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Post by Woody Williams on Oct 19, 2008 6:53:10 GMT -5
Way to go team memebr!
That put us on the board.
Looking forward to the picturs of that hoss..
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Post by jajwrigh on Oct 19, 2008 7:56:50 GMT -5
Sounds like you had a great hunt and its good that you hammered a monster!!
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Post by raporter on Oct 19, 2008 8:09:26 GMT -5
Congratulations.
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Post by mullis56 on Oct 19, 2008 9:14:26 GMT -5
Dad has another day of hunting tomorrow. He hasn't seen much of anything to shot, but I bet he has seen a total of 100 deer mostly 1-1/2 bucks and does. Thanks for the congrats, I am more lucky then anything! I also have a picture of a cow moose that was in the alfalfa field during the day while the buck I killed was bedded down. I can't get the pics to load into photo bucket. I know this deer I killed isn't anything on Hopper's and some others deer.
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Post by bsutravis on Oct 19, 2008 10:32:56 GMT -5
Here are a few of the pics:   |
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Post by danf on Oct 19, 2008 10:37:06 GMT -5
WOW!
That is a great buck!! Hope your Dad gets a shot at a good one too Donnie!
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Post by bbarth on Oct 19, 2008 10:39:00 GMT -5
Donnie, Nice Deer!
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Post by Hoosier Hunter on Oct 19, 2008 11:43:22 GMT -5
Thats a nice canadian buck.
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Post by Sleazy E on Oct 19, 2008 12:49:07 GMT -5
That thing is a PIG.... Nice job!!! Good luck to your dad.
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Post by Woody Williams on Oct 19, 2008 13:08:38 GMT -5
OHHHHH!!
That is a big old good one....
Lots of mass...
Love it!
BTW - I woul have been scared to death to leave it all night. I would be afraid of critters eating up the head, neck and cape on him..
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Post by freedomhunter on Oct 19, 2008 13:48:43 GMT -5
Congratulations, it will be hard to top that one! Beautiful dark antlers, all-together stud, what a looker. I heard they had some big ones up there.  |
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Post by StingyRog on Oct 19, 2008 15:11:17 GMT -5
I can see why you didnt sleep that night! Congrats! Awesome buck!
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Post by HuntMeister on Oct 19, 2008 15:45:12 GMT -5
Great buck, congrats!
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Post by johnc911 on Oct 19, 2008 16:12:14 GMT -5
Nice Donnie. I was getting text from donnie while he was in the stand. i was in Canada also so the signal was weird on some phones. He could text me but i couldnt text back. I knew he was seeing alot of deer but WOW
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Post by steiny on Oct 19, 2008 17:01:25 GMT -5
Congratulations, nice buck !
What province and who was your outfitter, if you don't mind?
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Post by pigeonflier on Oct 19, 2008 18:36:57 GMT -5
My goodness,, I rarely venture into the deer threads,, but got word of this MONSTER and had to look.. Congrats dude,, thats a BEAST!!!!
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