Election Day Hammer
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Election Day Hammer
Election Day is officially my favorite day of the of the year to hunt. I got to Ohio on Saturday November 2nd and jumped right into the stand. I had scouted this property the year prior and lots of computer time strategizing for this upcoming hunt. I had high hopes of crazy movement with bucks salivating running everywhere. I was greeted with reality pretty quickly when my first sit I had 7 hours on stand and zero deer. I adjusted stand locations for Sunday, I climbed up the tree at 5:20 am, at 8:30 o saw my first deer. It was a 2 yr old 8 point and definitely not what I was looking for, that would be the first and last deer of the day. 12 hours on stand for Sunday. Monday morning I climbed into my stand at 5:30 am, sat all day with zero sightings. 12 more hours on stand Monday. Tuesday I changed stand locations again to a deep ditch with a creek running through the bottom. I climbed into a double sycamore tree for the day. Very uneventful day with no deer sightings until 5 pm when I caught glimpse of an antler in the thick brush crossing the ditch below me. I have home a loud grunt and that was all it took. He was heading my way and I’m a hurry. He closed to 15 yards so I got a shot on him pretty quick. The shot was perfect and he collapsed within 25 yards. This deer was an absolute horse. When I got him to the butcher he weighed over 260#. We have pictures of this deer for 5 years, believing he was 2 1/2 the first year pictures were taken of him putting him at 7 1/2 yrs old this season. Deer sightings were pretty low this trip but the quality of bucks was excellent.
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Awesome buck. Congrats.
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That is one heck of a buck!
Congrats on a beast.
Congrats on a beast.
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That thing is a brute.
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Geez. La weeze. ! That's a big one
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260 dressed?! what a tank! Congrats!
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Glad the persistence paid off! Great example for everyone! Congrats!
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Incredible buck congrats.
You put in the work and consistently put these bug bucks down, very impressive.
You put in the work and consistently put these bug bucks down, very impressive.
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Wow g3s that is an absolute brute!! Congratulations
Low deer movement/sightings and you stayed right after it, and rewarded
Low deer movement/sightings and you stayed right after it, and rewarded
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Love how wide apart his brows are, like a goal post. Congrats
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Man that thing is a hog
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Wow! Public?
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