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are you serious?

Unread postby yungbuck » Wed Nov 16, 2016 4:30 pm

November 3rd I shot the biggest buck of my life. My wife and I have three kids under three and so my time in the woods is not what it was when I started hunting 5 yrs ago, but I have been applying beast tactics and scouting like crazy to make up for less time in the stand. This year I put tons of miles on boots and finally located a few primary bedding spots. These are big woods public land and like many of you know they are overlooked spots that hold big deer. I was running really late due to some family time stuff and didn’t get into my stand until 2pm. The parking lots were full of big diesel trucks and my little car looked out of place  I had never hunted this spot but spring scouted it and knew it was going to be solid. Before I got to my actual stand the sign was too strong. I passed a fresh scrape, broken licking branches and I could see up ahead big rubs in what I knew was a bucks bed. Put on the brakes set up my LWolf. The wind was perfect and I knew it was a great start to my week and a half rut vacation. 40 minutes later I look to my right and see a nice buck coming my way. By the time I stand up with the bow and clip the d loop he is at 12 yrds. He comes within a few yards of my tree and I give him the classic burrp. He doesn’t hear the first one so I get a little louder- a little louder and at 7 yds he stops, looks my direction and the let the arrow fly through the top of his back through the heart and lung and out his brisket. The arrow penetrated to the fletchings and I knew it was a great shot. He ran in a half moon, turned around at 75 yds wobbled and toppled over I was besides myself. I sat down and just kept saying “are you serious” “are you serious”. I could not believe that after 5 long years of hunting and learning and falling short I had laid a truly mature buck on the ground. Time slowed down and I just started thinking about all the messed up sets, all the miles in hilly and and swamp lands, all the work and thought and map review and it came down to this moment. I felt so blessed. I had killed the best buck of my life within the first 2 hrs of my rut vacation. God was looking down upon me! I took my stand and bow back to the car and began the longest 3 ½ hrs of my life pulling a big bodied buck from the woods with no sled or cart. Of course I forgot water so it added to the experience. My guess is this buck was scenting does mid day and coming back to bed mid day. I have played the hunt a hundred times in my head and with the wind he was heading perfectly into his J hook to bed (but this is all theory right). I want to say thank you Bobbo1686 for working on a map for me to confirm what my spring scouting had told me and to also help me target future hunting spots, you are the man! Grateful for this buck and grateful for all the guys on this site who contribute and pave the way creating a truly awesome place to learn and understand the art of deer hunting. Thank you dan and all fellow beasts!

O and don’t mind the white fluffy dog or the baby doll in the “hero” shot hahahah
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Re: are you serious?

Unread postby Stanley » Wed Nov 16, 2016 4:36 pm

Dandy buck for sure. love all the kids in the picture.
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Re: are you serious?

Unread postby Lockdown » Wed Nov 16, 2016 5:00 pm

Stud!! Congrats! 8-)
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Re: are you serious?

Unread postby Dewey » Wed Nov 16, 2016 6:17 pm

Awesome buck. Congrats. :clap:

Great when a plan works out perfectly. 8-)


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Re: are you serious?

Unread postby BigCedarJack » Wed Nov 16, 2016 6:18 pm

Congrats man! That is an awesome buck!
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Unread postby Ack » Wed Nov 16, 2016 6:57 pm

Great buck....congrats! :clap:
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Unread postby SamPotter » Wed Nov 16, 2016 10:12 pm

Wow, heckuva buck!

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Unread postby seazofcheeze » Wed Nov 16, 2016 10:16 pm

Great buck, congrats!

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Unread postby Motivated » Wed Nov 16, 2016 10:30 pm

Great job! Love the family pic!

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Unread postby Edcyclopedia » Wed Nov 16, 2016 11:10 pm

Spectacular!

Luv the girls/kid pic, they are all dolls:)

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Unread postby purebowhunting » Wed Nov 16, 2016 11:13 pm

Great buck! That's the best hero shot of the season! Congratulations!
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Unread postby justdirtyfun » Wed Nov 16, 2016 11:48 pm

Congrats. It doesn't get any better than that.

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Unread postby SmallJawNH » Wed Nov 16, 2016 11:59 pm

Wow. Great deer and a great story.

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Unread postby oldrank » Thu Nov 17, 2016 12:06 am

Nice buck !!!

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Unread postby Boo » Thu Nov 17, 2016 12:06 am

Awesome buck and story! Congrats!!

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