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My SD Buck

Unread postby Spysar » Mon Dec 14, 2015 2:42 am

So I was on my trip this year, and I got a buck in SD.

It was the end of a three week hunt for me. I had killed two bucks in NE already and still had my SD tag in pocket. It was near the end of the trip. Some of my friends hadn't killed anything yet, so to help them keep maximum stand time, I was burning time picking up a hoard of stands all over creation. Some I had to boat to get to. So I got that all done and didn't have much of the afternoon left.

So I decided to do what I wanted to do for some time. I set up a treestand 100 yards off the back door to the cabin, and 75 yards from our game pole with bucks on it.

I had noticed a lot of sign, that indicated buck use, but thought it was nocturnal. My archery buck target got attacked one night, and another time at night I saw a buck starring at the target.

Then I got to thinking. This cabin is dead still all day everyday(for the most part)from an hour before daylight, to an hour after dark. The deer could be using the backyard all day anytime they wanted, no one was there. The cabin is on an eighty acre piece, and we hunt up back, but never 100 yards from the backdoor.

So anyway I sat there, and yeah there was activity. I could see out in the prarie grass and cedars, some does.

Then right in the thin strip of woods I was in here comes a buck. He walked right by me heading for the edge of the backyard. I almost gave him a pass. But then the deer looked old to me. Big neck and chest, and deeply and darkly stained tarsals.

I double lunged him and he died 50 yards from the game pole.

His teeth were worn down and smooth, and one of his femur bones was broken and healed in a big knot. He didn't limp though. His rack was tipped up on one side and smaller. The overall rack wasn't that big either. He had a thick skull, big head, roman nose and cut up ears.

I wonder how long that buck has been doing that? Living right under our noses. I was walking miles and climbing all over. And then get one in the backyard?

His teeth. Shorter, with molars smooth on top and stained.

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His rack.

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He's the one on the right. Right behind me is where I shot him.

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Re: My SD Buck

Unread postby PK_ » Mon Dec 14, 2015 3:06 am

That is a cool story. Wonder if that buck would walk over and sniff the buck pole each year. haha. My uncle always told me that opening day of buck season when he was young they would always hang the first buck of the day from a tree and a guy would sit over it and would almost always kill another buck coming to it by the end of the day.
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Unread postby Bucky » Mon Dec 14, 2015 3:12 am

Based on teeth.... that is an ancient buck! Like 7-8+

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Unread postby BassBoysLLP » Mon Dec 14, 2015 3:35 am

Great story! :dance:
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Unread postby Hawthorne » Mon Dec 14, 2015 3:38 am

Cool story spy! Always amazing when hunters shoot big bucks in spots like that. Thanks for sharing

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Re: My SD Buck

Unread postby Jackson Marsh » Mon Dec 14, 2015 3:40 am

8-)

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Re: My SD Buck

Unread postby kurt » Mon Dec 14, 2015 3:42 am

Awesome story Spy.

The buck is checking in everyday. Like dang they got Fred and junior. Ooo I forgot Spy doesn't name bucks. :lol:
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Unread postby headgear » Mon Dec 14, 2015 3:47 am

Cool story Spy, would have liked to have seen the look on your buddies faces when you tagged one right behind the buck pole.
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Re: My SD Buck

Unread postby Stanley » Mon Dec 14, 2015 3:52 am

Nice story Spy.
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Unread postby hunter_mike » Mon Dec 14, 2015 4:15 am

Awesome 8-)

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Unread postby Bbostrom » Mon Dec 14, 2015 4:19 am

Cool story great bucks!

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Unread postby kenn1320 » Mon Dec 14, 2015 4:26 am

Another example of being a buck magnet. Spy is like the guy on the most interesting man in the world beer commercials.

Spy: I always go deep into the cover to get my buck, but when I dont, they come to me. :lol:
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Re: My SD Buck

Unread postby tim » Mon Dec 14, 2015 4:32 am

that's awesome. I wonder how many old bucks get mistaken for young bucks or young for old. congrats on a true old warrior.
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Re: My SD Buck

Unread postby whitetailassasin » Mon Dec 14, 2015 4:57 am

Very cool story Spy, looks like a good mature buck to me. Way to think outside the box.

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Re: My SD Buck

Unread postby Edcyclopedia » Mon Dec 14, 2015 9:16 am

Spectacular!

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