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Wifes first nice buck.

Unread postby Exophysical » Tue Nov 19, 2013 5:56 am

Up in northern Alberta a very hard winter coupled with a healthy wolf population have made for some very tough hunting this season. I'm pretty happy just getting out and hunting but my wife was getting discouraged, I have a cousin that lives further south and he told me that in the farm land the deer had pulled through better, the way my rotation worked I had a 3 day weekend so we packed up the kids and headed south. Me and my wife split up the day, taking turns hunting and watching the kids. The first day we had a crazy snowfall and not much was moving, the second morning things had cleared up so I let her get out for first light, about an hour and a half later she was back at the house saying she had a buck down. I know the pictures don't show the antlers well but its a heavy 5x4 with some nice stickers, as usual she killed it with a single shot from her 6.5. I was very happy she'd found some success after the discouraging season we've been having so far.

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Unread postby Dewey » Tue Nov 19, 2013 5:58 am

That is a great bigwoods buck! Congrats to your wife! :clap:
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Unread postby Hodag Hunter » Tue Nov 19, 2013 6:00 am

Congrats to your wife on a dandy buck. Geat pictures with kids.....I love having the kids involved in the hunt, tracking, pictures and deer cleaning.

Great job. 8-)
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Unread postby BassBoysLLP » Tue Nov 19, 2013 6:07 am

Awesome buck. Love them chocolate antlers.
Great photos.


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Unread postby bigwoodsmn » Tue Nov 19, 2013 6:29 am

What a fantastic buck - congratulations to you and your wife. BTW: that's a really good idea to split time if you have kids and a wife that loves to hunt too.
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Re: Wifes first nice buck.

Unread postby Stanley » Tue Nov 19, 2013 6:40 am

Great buck for sure. Congrats to your wife.
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Unread postby Black Squirrel » Tue Nov 19, 2013 7:34 am

Congrats! :clap:
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Unread postby Exophysical » Tue Nov 19, 2013 8:05 am

bigwoodsmn wrote:What a fantastic buck - congratulations to you and your wife. BTW: that's a really good idea to split time if you have kids and a wife that loves to hunt too.


Thanks!! My cousin lives in a small mobile home and has 3 buisy kids, my family was all sharing the same bedroom and nobody was getting much sleep, if we weren't taking turns watching the kids I'm pretty sure somebody would have gone crazy!! In any case I've found that making sure my wife gets plenty of opportunities to hunt is a good investment, the more I let her hunt the more she lets me hunt. My cousin shot a nice 5x5 while we were there and I had a chance at a good buck too. Mine was a long shot right at last light and the buck was chasing around a doe so he didn't give me any shot opportunity that I was comfortable with.
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Unread postby headgear » Tue Nov 19, 2013 8:38 am

Congrats to the wife, a great buck!
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Unread postby Edcyclopedia » Tue Nov 19, 2013 9:06 am

Spectacular! :clap: :dance:
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Unread postby exojam » Tue Nov 19, 2013 9:28 am

Congrats to your wife, nice deer.
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Unread postby Mario » Tue Nov 19, 2013 11:00 am

Congrats, that's a beast!
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Re: Wifes first nice buck.

Unread postby Jackson Marsh » Tue Nov 19, 2013 2:44 pm

Great looking buck! Has a tank for a body! Looks like it doesn't have a neck. Did you happen to weigh him?

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Unread postby PK_ » Tue Nov 19, 2013 2:45 pm

Stud Buck for sure, huge congrats.
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Re: Wifes first nice buck.

Unread postby DEERSLAYER » Tue Nov 19, 2013 8:05 pm

Awesome! :clap:
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