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The last day of this years hunting season was kind to me. I was actually after a doe to just fill my tag and put some more meat in the freezer when I saw this buck. I got across from the hill he was on but decided it was about 450 yards and so I did not shoot from there. Instead I backtracked and circled around him to get above him as he was bedded on a hillside. I came over the hill and he had left his bed. There was fresh snow on the ground so I followed his tracks. I realized that he had walked out of his bed and not ran so I continued following the tracks and looking at every brush pile in the nearby surroundings. I looked down at his tracks then looked up and he was broadside about 100 yards max looking right at me. I almost had to remind myself "raise your rifle" as I figured I had already blown it. I got my barely steady crosshairs on him and made a shot that dropped him in 30 yards. He was dead before I could spot where he was in the little draw he ran into. 308 Winchester 165 Seirra boattails at 2800 FPS.  -------------------- THANOS WAS RIGHT! | ||
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 The other half was boned out in my pack. I keep getting asked. I am getting a shoulder mount done. -------------------- THANOS WAS RIGHT! | |||
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Nice Buck! Thanks for posting your hunt results. | |||
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Very nice. How much did he weigh? Steve "He wins the most, who honour saves. Success is not the test." Ryan "Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything." Stalin Tanzania 06 Argentina08 Argentina Australia06 Argentina 07 Namibia Arnhemland10 Belize2011 Moz04 Moz 09 | |||
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I am not sure how much he weighed. 150 would be my guess. About as much as a small mule deer buck. -------------------- THANOS WAS RIGHT! | |||
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Seriously nice deer... first day of season or last! On the plains of hesitation lie the bleached bones of ten thousand, who on the dawn of victory lay down their weary heads resting, and there resting, died. If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch... Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son! - Rudyard Kipling Life grows grim without senseless indulgence. | |||
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Do I understand you correctly that you spotted it in its bed from 450 yards? | |||
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great buck. congrats. | |||
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Congrats on your last day buck! I love the little character with the split brow tine! MSG, USA (Ret.) Armor NRA Life Memeber | |||
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When I first spotted him he was walking across a hillside I was about a half mile away from. When I peeked over the last ridge across from him I saw him bedded but farther than I wanted to shoot. When I hunt this area I almost always carry a spotting scope and my rangefinder. The temp was -8*F and my spotting scope worked fine but my rangefinder did not. -------------------- THANOS WAS RIGHT! | |||
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NICE and a drop tine! Congrats | |||
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Super nice buck. What a reward for such a cold day. ~Ann   | |||
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Some good character on that old boy. Nicely done at the 11th hour. _____________________ A successful man is one who earns more money than his wife can spend. | |||
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