Piebald Buck Down
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Re: Piebald Buck Down
Congrats! A full body mount would be nice. Thinking about that by chance or just tanning the hide ?
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Thanks for all the nice words. I am picking up the hide after work today. I had the deer processed by a friend who has an operation due to the timing of the kill, the warm weather and too much to do preventing me from butchering on my own. He carefully skinned the buck and covered the flesh with between 5-10lbs of fine grain salt. Tonight I will work to scrape off the flesh and fat and then re-salt and let sit stretched out for 5-7 days. I am still hunting for recommendable tannery who will do the tanning for me and promise to return my hide. I read some reviews about some places that send back a random hide, but for obvious reasons I want to get mine back - any trustworthy recommendations?
I am waiting for some time to compile and edit my footage of the hunt. I scout hunted from an observatory set along a tree line looking over the large bean field and watched a big mainframe 5x5 10pt enter the field and work his way into 45yrds of me last week but I couldn't get a good angle on him through the branches to make a shot, although the video footage was awesome.
The next day I hung the Lone Wolf set 60-70yrds down that field edge in a tiny tree that would shake if your stomach growled.
I hunted two times, but the first sit had the wind shift on me and was iffy. I contemplated leaving early but decided to stick it out. Although I was disappointed, I wasn't surprised to only see a pair of doe and figured the wind bit me.
The next night I hoped for a last chance to catch that buck slip up, but only saw one doe and the wind was perfect. I assume he was already on to me and I might be wasting my time if I sat this particular hang and hunt set again. It stormed hard that next day and night and I told my wife I would give the set one more sit as the beans were still green, and if he didn't show I'd set up by his backdoor from where I had his bed pinned.
While shed hunting/scouting this spring I found a large buck bed under a big willow where the ground was elevated a couple feet above the surrounding area in a dogwood and tag alder thicket. With the bean field on the west side of the thicket and cattails on the east side, I figured if he maintained that bed into this season he'd likely stage up in the thicket until late evening before entering the field to feed. Needing a Plan-B, if I screwed up and he caught on to me then he'd likely stage up in the thicket and then exit late through a trail in the cattails heading south to the neighbors corn field about 150yrds from his bed. I have a few shotty little trees in between his bed and the neighbors field I knew I could flex with some body weight, so had I not tagged out on Saturday then I would have situated myself in that backdoor route I assumed he'd take.
On Saturday, while walking out for that last sit in the hang and hunt set along the bean field, a doe stepped out from the thicket directly under my stand set and as soon as I saw her, she saw me. We stood staring back and forth and knowing her position was within 80yrds of the known buck bed, I worried she'd blow out of there. After some time she looked behind her and I immediately crouched down and pulled out the camera. I parted the beans I was covered in and saw she was walking towards me along the field edge, seemingly out of curiosity. I say on camera, "...a few more steps and I'm going to shoot you." She was hesitant, but curiosity was getting the best of her as she moved in and I knocked an arrow. At 40yrds I was about to draw, but she caught my wind and took off without blowing the whistle.
I was settled by 5:20PM, and at 6:10PM a big doe stepped out 20yrds from me and cautiously scanned the field. She would put her head down and feed for a moment and then look around. I planned to shoot her if she stepped out all the way but she threw her head up so fast and became fixated on something across the field. I instantly knew another deer must have stepped out and glanced in the direction she was looking. My eyes lit up when I could tell it was a buck and he was coming out in the exact spot the big one did just a few days prior. I got the camera situated on him and zoomed in to see what he was. While it wasn't the target buck I had hoped for, it was still neat to see my plan coming together. Within a few seconds he stepped out and I was shocked when I saw the white patching on his hide. I didn't know what I was looking at - had he lost his fur in the main patchy area or was it white fur? I zoomed in closer and couldn't believe what I was looking at.
I continued to film as he closed the distance from 60/70yrds to inside of 20yrds and the rest is history. The entire process of the hunt, starting on day one this season will be compiled into the video and I'll have it master edited sometime in the next week or two. Stay tuned...
I am waiting for some time to compile and edit my footage of the hunt. I scout hunted from an observatory set along a tree line looking over the large bean field and watched a big mainframe 5x5 10pt enter the field and work his way into 45yrds of me last week but I couldn't get a good angle on him through the branches to make a shot, although the video footage was awesome.
The next day I hung the Lone Wolf set 60-70yrds down that field edge in a tiny tree that would shake if your stomach growled.
I hunted two times, but the first sit had the wind shift on me and was iffy. I contemplated leaving early but decided to stick it out. Although I was disappointed, I wasn't surprised to only see a pair of doe and figured the wind bit me.
The next night I hoped for a last chance to catch that buck slip up, but only saw one doe and the wind was perfect. I assume he was already on to me and I might be wasting my time if I sat this particular hang and hunt set again. It stormed hard that next day and night and I told my wife I would give the set one more sit as the beans were still green, and if he didn't show I'd set up by his backdoor from where I had his bed pinned.
While shed hunting/scouting this spring I found a large buck bed under a big willow where the ground was elevated a couple feet above the surrounding area in a dogwood and tag alder thicket. With the bean field on the west side of the thicket and cattails on the east side, I figured if he maintained that bed into this season he'd likely stage up in the thicket until late evening before entering the field to feed. Needing a Plan-B, if I screwed up and he caught on to me then he'd likely stage up in the thicket and then exit late through a trail in the cattails heading south to the neighbors corn field about 150yrds from his bed. I have a few shotty little trees in between his bed and the neighbors field I knew I could flex with some body weight, so had I not tagged out on Saturday then I would have situated myself in that backdoor route I assumed he'd take.
On Saturday, while walking out for that last sit in the hang and hunt set along the bean field, a doe stepped out from the thicket directly under my stand set and as soon as I saw her, she saw me. We stood staring back and forth and knowing her position was within 80yrds of the known buck bed, I worried she'd blow out of there. After some time she looked behind her and I immediately crouched down and pulled out the camera. I parted the beans I was covered in and saw she was walking towards me along the field edge, seemingly out of curiosity. I say on camera, "...a few more steps and I'm going to shoot you." She was hesitant, but curiosity was getting the best of her as she moved in and I knocked an arrow. At 40yrds I was about to draw, but she caught my wind and took off without blowing the whistle.
I was settled by 5:20PM, and at 6:10PM a big doe stepped out 20yrds from me and cautiously scanned the field. She would put her head down and feed for a moment and then look around. I planned to shoot her if she stepped out all the way but she threw her head up so fast and became fixated on something across the field. I instantly knew another deer must have stepped out and glanced in the direction she was looking. My eyes lit up when I could tell it was a buck and he was coming out in the exact spot the big one did just a few days prior. I got the camera situated on him and zoomed in to see what he was. While it wasn't the target buck I had hoped for, it was still neat to see my plan coming together. Within a few seconds he stepped out and I was shocked when I saw the white patching on his hide. I didn't know what I was looking at - had he lost his fur in the main patchy area or was it white fur? I zoomed in closer and couldn't believe what I was looking at.
I continued to film as he closed the distance from 60/70yrds to inside of 20yrds and the rest is history. The entire process of the hunt, starting on day one this season will be compiled into the video and I'll have it master edited sometime in the next week or two. Stay tuned...
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Re: Piebald Buck Down
remmag wrote::clap: congrats on the piebald!!! Excellent shooting and heck of a good job self filming it all!! Very cool!!
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X2! Great shot and footage. It doesn't get much better than that. Meat on the table and you can easily share the video so everybody can see what a beautiful animal like that looks like in the wild. As you mentioned, not many people get to see such a rare animal.
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Awesome man. Very cool
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