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Limpy buck...

Unread postby dan » Sat Jan 01, 2011 10:28 am

Limpy was a buck I was hunting about 12 years ago... Don't know what ever happened to him. I only saw him for one season.
He had a bad limp and could hardly walk on an injured front leg probably from a gun shot the year before. One of his antlers was a heavy 5 side with short tines, the other was a weird goofy beam that looked like the wound had distorted it. Thought I could chase him down and catch him once. Didn't try that again :lol:
Anywho, he bedded out in an open grassy area where he could see a road where hunters had access when the wind would blow towards the road. He would face the road with the wind to his back. One day when the wind was right towards the end of the season I drove by to see if he was there. A quick look with my bino's and yep, there he laid watching me....
Sooo, I got a friend and had him drop me off up the road and he went to the road the buck was watching and got out of his car and moved around a little making some noise while I snuck up crawling on my belly to the buck in his bed. I went from an angle so my wind would not hit the bedded buck.
When I got to where I thought was 35 yards I drew my bow and rose to my feet. The whole distance on my bellie I could not see the deer. So when I got up he looked at me and stood up and then looked back at my friend exposing his vitals and an arrow sailed right over his back almost touching him. After he ran away I paced it off at about 19 yards. I crawled a lot closer than I thought.
2 days later I drove by and the buck was bedded right back in the same spot.
Around mid January I was scouting with my friend and we went past the field where the buck spometimes bedded. I said I was going to go up there and look at the bed and see if it was being used. It was the opisate direction we were headed and he didn't want to go up there. So I tried to convince him saying "maybe the sheds will be laying there" He just rolled his eyes. One shed was lying on each side of the bed as if they fell off while he was bedded.

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Re: Limpy buck...

Unread postby BackWoodsHunter » Sat Jan 01, 2011 10:34 am

why didn't you go after him again? sweet mount but the wife doesn't seem as excited about the rack as you are :lol:
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Re: Limpy buck...

Unread postby Wrinkleneck » Sat Jan 01, 2011 10:37 am

Great story!! I wish you could have shot him in his bed, that would have been great ;) Nice find on them cool lookng sheds.
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Re: Limpy buck...

Unread postby dan » Sat Jan 01, 2011 10:42 am

why didn't you go after him again?

Once bitten, twice shy ;)
I went after him. But he new the game from that point and the season ended not long after the stalk hunt.
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Re: Limpy buck...

Unread postby huntinfool14 » Sat Jan 01, 2011 11:42 am

good story! thats a neat lookin buck!
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Re: Limpy buck...

Unread postby Swampthing » Sat Jan 01, 2011 11:52 am

Great story Dan,
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Re: Limpy buck...

Unread postby solocam88 » Sat Jan 01, 2011 12:22 pm

Thats a good story. Finding them in beds is awesome.
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Unread postby PredatorTC » Sun Jan 02, 2011 3:19 am

Very interesting story!
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Re: Limpy buck...

Unread postby dan » Sat Jul 18, 2015 4:28 am

bump
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Unread postby stash59 » Sat Jul 18, 2015 6:08 am

8-) 8-) :clap:
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Re: Limpy buck...

Unread postby welded34 » Sat Jul 18, 2015 6:33 am

Good story. Cool looking rack.

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