Is your most memorable buck your biggest buck?
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Is your most memorable buck your biggest buck?
Having never been successful, I really don't have any input for this thread. I have had shot opportunities on a few smaller bucks before I found the beast...and now that I found the beast I am even more happy I did not shoot them. I would have never felt like I earned them, it was all luck.
As much work as I have put in this season, if I connect on a buck, no matter if its 100" or 200", I will feel like I earned this one, my first buck, and I can't see any other deer I shoot being more memorable. I am sure that could change.
What is your most memorable deer? Is it your biggest one also?
As much work as I have put in this season, if I connect on a buck, no matter if its 100" or 200", I will feel like I earned this one, my first buck, and I can't see any other deer I shoot being more memorable. I am sure that could change.
What is your most memorable deer? Is it your biggest one also?
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My most memorable buck was shot is 2006 a 12 pt that grossed 130". I was hunting with my dad and he actually watched my shoot him on state land in Michigan on the ground and fall in sight also. I didn't realize he seen it, so when I stood up and looked around I could see him running and jumping and yelling. All I could say was "can you believe that? Can you believe that? " Was my first mature buck, he's not my biggest but he's my favorite story.
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My biggest is surprisingly not my most memorable. My 1st is my most memorable. One that would of been my biggest was a liver hit which jump onto neighboring property after I bumped him. and never got him, makes me sick thinking about it. He bedded down facing his back trail just like Dan talked about in his Iowa EWT episode.
My 1st was a wide tall 4 point. The 1st shot I missed and he stepped back, I managed to nock another arrow an hit him far back , but got lucky and hit an artery. I never shook like that ever in my life My mentor made me bite the heart and slapped my face with a blood clot. I worker for his tree service and was going to community college, I remember telling guys I grew up with, at school that afternoon " I just killed a buck this morning". they were all happy for me. It was property next to a cemetery and I could see three red grave candles glowing in the dark. As the sun came up, there was an owl staring me down from a tree 10 yards away. It was Oct 19, 1994, been a stone cold killer ever since When I go home to visit, I always drive past and wish I could hunt it beast style, loads of mature deer there. And just great hill country. My 1st kill was a squirrel with bow though
My 1st was a wide tall 4 point. The 1st shot I missed and he stepped back, I managed to nock another arrow an hit him far back , but got lucky and hit an artery. I never shook like that ever in my life My mentor made me bite the heart and slapped my face with a blood clot. I worker for his tree service and was going to community college, I remember telling guys I grew up with, at school that afternoon " I just killed a buck this morning". they were all happy for me. It was property next to a cemetery and I could see three red grave candles glowing in the dark. As the sun came up, there was an owl staring me down from a tree 10 yards away. It was Oct 19, 1994, been a stone cold killer ever since When I go home to visit, I always drive past and wish I could hunt it beast style, loads of mature deer there. And just great hill country. My 1st kill was a squirrel with bow though
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My first buck is my most memorable. It is difficult to replicate all the different emotions that went into that hunt. That hunt turned me into a whitetail hunting junkie.
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BassBoysLLP wrote:My first buck is my most memorable. It is difficult to replicate all the different emotions that went into that hunt. That hunt turned me into a whitetail hunting junkie.
Same here. Nothing compares to my first deer even though it was only a spike.
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My first deer with a bow was my best and most memorable hunt. It was a button buck. My second with a bow was a basket eight and he was equally as memorable; it was one of those hunts where I did everything myself for the first time and needed nobody else's help. It was very liberating I've shot some nice ones since those days, but none as memorable as those two deer.
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I think about the question and find myself picking one and then saying to myself but, but, but...
All the deer I have killed seem to have that something special to each one of them (buck OR Doe).
In saying this I have to answer NO --> THEY ALL ARE!!!
All the deer I have killed seem to have that something special to each one of them (buck OR Doe).
In saying this I have to answer NO --> THEY ALL ARE!!!
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Most memorable for me is not my biggest. the buck that is most memorable took up every minute of 2 seasons in a row for me.caught him shortly after this pic
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Not only was my most memorable buck NOT my biggest, but it was easily one of my smallest. It was really the entire hunt combined to make that hunt so pleasurable and a lasting memory.
In short, he was a small 2 year old 7 point. He traveled all the way from his bed (now I know this, at the time I didn't)
made it to my rut funnel setup (it was too early for rut hunting then too) I shot him at only 17 yards, but I was 39 feet in a tree, yup 39 feet, my small screw-in bag hanger is still in the tree. I shot the deer perfectly, he never knew what happened. The angle I shot him was amazing the damage it done, I took his left lung and heart. He jumped a step forward and turned and looked at the arrow sticking in the ground. He stared for a few seconds at the arrow and his legs just wouldn't hold him no more. He tried to leave, took two step and fell over, hammer dead.
In short, he was a small 2 year old 7 point. He traveled all the way from his bed (now I know this, at the time I didn't)
made it to my rut funnel setup (it was too early for rut hunting then too) I shot him at only 17 yards, but I was 39 feet in a tree, yup 39 feet, my small screw-in bag hanger is still in the tree. I shot the deer perfectly, he never knew what happened. The angle I shot him was amazing the damage it done, I took his left lung and heart. He jumped a step forward and turned and looked at the arrow sticking in the ground. He stared for a few seconds at the arrow and his legs just wouldn't hold him no more. He tried to leave, took two step and fell over, hammer dead.
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My most memorable buck is my first one from 1979.
I'm reason they call it hunting and not shooting.
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My most memorable buck was is not my biggest. It was a 10 point I killed several year ago with my bow. It was everything that lead up to that hunt and how it all unfolded that makes it the most memorable to me.
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Looks like I'm odd man out...........my most memorable buck was my biggest . I had scouted like a madman in the off season, had kind of crummy luck early in the season, had the death march to get to the stand, no deer seen the first few hours, then all of a sudden he was there and then he was dead. The 5 hour drag out is burned into my memory too
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All of mine have a special meaning but I think my smallest (which was my first) is still the most deserved and earned. I do have special memories of all, honestly, the antler size doesn't mean whether its a special deer or not. I honestly hate when people post a buck (not on this site) and someone bashes them and said they should have let it go another year. If a person spent enough time to post that picture they are proud of it. I will never judge anyone by the size of the buck they shoot, just doesn't make sense to me. The only time I would be upset is if they shot a small buck and say I had to shoot it because their aren't any small bucks. Be proud of what you shot and earned.
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Jackson Marsh wrote:Looks like I'm odd man out...........my most memorable buck was my biggest . I had scouted like a madman in the off season, had kind of crummy luck early in the season, had the death march to get to the stand, no deer seen the first few hours, then all of a sudden he was there and then he was dead. The 5 hour drag out is burned into my memory too
I kinda agree but my first was still the most memorable and my biggest buck was by far my most satisfying. After almost 20 years of trying to kill a big one the sense of accomplishment was almost overwhelming. It took me awhile to gather myself after finding him and was a very emotional experience. Nothing like getting that monkey off your back.
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Not my first or my biggest.
It was a Buck I ran down and shot with the bow. He was with 4 other bucks dogging 2 does on a thick hillside. Pure insanity, had 7 deer within 20 yards at the same time while on the ground, drilled him at about 3 to 5 yards.
It was a Buck I ran down and shot with the bow. He was with 4 other bucks dogging 2 does on a thick hillside. Pure insanity, had 7 deer within 20 yards at the same time while on the ground, drilled him at about 3 to 5 yards.
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