Dirty's First Big Buck/ MO draw hunt
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Dirty's First Big Buck/ MO draw hunt
Myself(justdirtyfun) and 3 family members have been hunting a draw area and I tagged out in 3 days. The buck is BY FAR a personal best.
Overall the area is huge and cut up completely by access roads, trails, lakes, ponds, crops and wooded areas. People do everything here and it's ALWAYS BUSY. With a couple years of Beast experience, some scouting and prior hunting experience here, we were going in confident.
Opening morning was a front morning, much colder. I was targeting an overgrown field with persimmon dropping and general browse as mostly an observation of the whole field. Later on I found I was 8 yards from an active trail from the field to woods. During setup and just after shooting light I was setting the stand when a doe group came in.
The stand will wait I need my bow! Pulled it up and nocked an arrow. Ready for a shot balancing one foot on stand and one on the climbing stick. The four deer crossed in front and went into the woods. I targeted the last one so the others were gone in the woods. Took a quartering away shot and she disappeared down the trail. Wow. By 745 AM I had a doe.
After the shot I finished the set. I pulled out the bino's and scanned last sighting area. A tall, narrow buck appeared in the lens at 12 yards. No shot chance as he traveled the doe trail in reverse. Too close, and above him as he walked directly away. From that point on, deer were almost always in view until after 930 AM. At one point 5 bucks were milling around, one mature buck but nothing close.
Now it's Monday evening, and we were targeting an area from last season. A few interior edges including a narrow mature strip of timber gave me a tree inline with expected movement. 7-8 kids were on a nature hike when I stepped off trail going to the tree. Not a negative since the cover noise cut my sneak distance in half. Set up went fine and soon does were crossing in front of me. Open undergrowth and sparse trees gave natural shooting lanes. Milkweed was cooperating and no ground scent out front.
Thick bedding brush was to my left and around 515 a noise came from that area. A decent buck was head down browsing, crossing in front of my stand. It looked nice and I saw 5 points on one side. Mentally I was keeping myself on track and concentrating on basics. Scent is good, he is relaxed, open lanes, just take the first good shot. Directly in front, he paused and started to face me while eating acorns. His body rotated sideways and his head went behind a large tree. I release and watch him run straight away from me in the narrow treeline.
It seemed like a GOOD shot so I was optimistic. As he ran off I thought I heard the crash. It was 523 PM when I sent my cousin a text. Tear down went well and I touched ground. BAM! Finally I was EXCITED. I hit a BIG BUCK.
Good blood and pass through, still avoiding he trailing giving some time. walking 75 yards of open cover and he was there DOWN.
Dad and I met while it was still light and went for the recovery. Field dressing ended just as my cousin arrived. Since I text him right after the shot he expected a 10 pointer. This big boy is 13 points but mostly a mainframe 10 with splits on G2's and a G3.
I was totally unprepared for finding this monster buck. Amazed me approaching and seeing the chocolate color and thick main beams. My family has been there for it all. And love how dedicated I have been to my hunting hobby. Truly rewarding.
Overall the area is huge and cut up completely by access roads, trails, lakes, ponds, crops and wooded areas. People do everything here and it's ALWAYS BUSY. With a couple years of Beast experience, some scouting and prior hunting experience here, we were going in confident.
Opening morning was a front morning, much colder. I was targeting an overgrown field with persimmon dropping and general browse as mostly an observation of the whole field. Later on I found I was 8 yards from an active trail from the field to woods. During setup and just after shooting light I was setting the stand when a doe group came in.
The stand will wait I need my bow! Pulled it up and nocked an arrow. Ready for a shot balancing one foot on stand and one on the climbing stick. The four deer crossed in front and went into the woods. I targeted the last one so the others were gone in the woods. Took a quartering away shot and she disappeared down the trail. Wow. By 745 AM I had a doe.
After the shot I finished the set. I pulled out the bino's and scanned last sighting area. A tall, narrow buck appeared in the lens at 12 yards. No shot chance as he traveled the doe trail in reverse. Too close, and above him as he walked directly away. From that point on, deer were almost always in view until after 930 AM. At one point 5 bucks were milling around, one mature buck but nothing close.
Now it's Monday evening, and we were targeting an area from last season. A few interior edges including a narrow mature strip of timber gave me a tree inline with expected movement. 7-8 kids were on a nature hike when I stepped off trail going to the tree. Not a negative since the cover noise cut my sneak distance in half. Set up went fine and soon does were crossing in front of me. Open undergrowth and sparse trees gave natural shooting lanes. Milkweed was cooperating and no ground scent out front.
Thick bedding brush was to my left and around 515 a noise came from that area. A decent buck was head down browsing, crossing in front of my stand. It looked nice and I saw 5 points on one side. Mentally I was keeping myself on track and concentrating on basics. Scent is good, he is relaxed, open lanes, just take the first good shot. Directly in front, he paused and started to face me while eating acorns. His body rotated sideways and his head went behind a large tree. I release and watch him run straight away from me in the narrow treeline.
It seemed like a GOOD shot so I was optimistic. As he ran off I thought I heard the crash. It was 523 PM when I sent my cousin a text. Tear down went well and I touched ground. BAM! Finally I was EXCITED. I hit a BIG BUCK.
Good blood and pass through, still avoiding he trailing giving some time. walking 75 yards of open cover and he was there DOWN.
Dad and I met while it was still light and went for the recovery. Field dressing ended just as my cousin arrived. Since I text him right after the shot he expected a 10 pointer. This big boy is 13 points but mostly a mainframe 10 with splits on G2's and a G3.
I was totally unprepared for finding this monster buck. Amazed me approaching and seeing the chocolate color and thick main beams. My family has been there for it all. And love how dedicated I have been to my hunting hobby. Truly rewarding.
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Awesome buck, congrats man!!!
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What a great deer! Congrats!
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Super buck. Congrats
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He has a lot of mass, nice buck. Congratulations!
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What a giant! Congratulations!
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Holy wow!! Congrats!! What a buck
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That deer is a tank! Huge congrats!!
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That's a slob! Congrats!
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Great buck sir, congrats!
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Every year some of the members on here make the short list an knock down a slob. You made that list this year.
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I'm reason they call it hunting and not shooting.
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Man! great buck and great story. that thing is a stud!
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Nice job! Lots of character on that rack!
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That's one of a buck! Congrats!
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