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Well, I was truly surprised to take this buck late this morning. I first saw him two days ago while sitting in my stand with the crossbow. He was teasing a couple of does in my hay field but never got closer than 105 yards. Today was the firearms opener. It was also very cold for SW Missouri, just 11F when I went out to my stand. After sun up the resident does and fawns cavorted around my frosty field for about an hour. No bucks hanging around at all. I figured the big guy I saw two days earlier had done his duty and moved on. About 0930 I was thinking about getting some breakfast and warming up but decided to just tough it out. Boy am I glad I did. At 1006 hrs I saw movement at the very back corner of my field. Got my bino's and was happy to see it was the same buck that I saw on Thursday. I watched him trot straight to me along the edge of my field and was hoping he'd keep coming closer but he stopped and looked over at my woodland where those does and fawns bed. I figured he was going to turn and head across the field to get to them. Nope, I guessed wrong! He instead turned to go jump the fence into the next door land. I put an end to that thought with a simple spine shot which put him down very quickly. This is the largest antlered buck I have ever had the fortune to put in my freezer. He has some strange bladed ends on his main beams. Very good spread past his ear tips too. I killed this buck at 97 ranged yards with my sporterized Argentine Mauser in .30-06. He's gutted and hanging and I am still frozen but quite happy today. ~Ann | ||
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Nice! Defiantly worth the wait! All We Know Is All We Are | |||
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Very nice buck and very cool antlers with lots of character on those "blades". Mike Legistine actu quod scripsi? Never under estimate the internet community's ability to reply to your post with their personal rant about their tangentially related, single occurrence issue. What I have learned on AR, since 2001: 1. The proper answer to: Where is the best place in town to get a steak dinner? is…You should go to Mel's Diner and get the fried chicken. 2. Big game animals can tell the difference between .015 of an inch in diameter, 15 grains of bullet weight, and 150 fps. 3. There is a difference in the performance of two identical projectiles launched at the same velocity if they came from different cartridges. 4. While a double rifle is the perfect DGR, every 375HH bolt gun needs to be modified to carry at least 5 down. 5. While a floor plate and detachable box magazine both use a mechanical latch, only the floor plate latch is reliable. Disregard the fact that every modern military rifle uses a detachable box magazine. 6. The Remington 700 is unreliable regardless of the fact it is the basis of the USMC M40 sniper rifle for 40+ years with no changes to the receiver or extractor and is the choice of more military and law enforcement sniper units than any other rifle. 7. PF actions are not suitable for a DGR and it is irrelevant that the M1, M14, M16, & AK47 which were designed for hunting men that can shoot back are all PF actions. 8. 95 deg F in Africa is different than 95 deg F in TX or CA and that is why you must worry about ammunition temperature in Africa (even though most safaris take place in winter) but not in TX or in CA. 9. The size of a ding in a gun's finish doesn't matter, what matters is whether it’s a safe ding or not. 10. 1 in a row is a trend, 2 in a row is statistically significant, and 3 in a row is an irrefutable fact. 11. Never buy a WSM or RCM cartridge for a safari rifle or your go to rifle in the USA because if they lose your ammo you can't find replacement ammo but don't worry 280 Rem, 338-06, 35 Whelen, and all Weatherby cartridges abound in Africa and back country stores. 12. A well hit animal can run 75 yds. in the open and suddenly drop with no initial blood trail, but the one I shot from 200 yds. away that ran 10 yds. and disappeared into a thicket and was not found was lost because the bullet penciled thru. I am 100% certain of this even though I have no physical evidence. 13. A 300 Win Mag is a 500 yard elk cartridge but a 308 Win is not a 300 yard elk cartridge even though the same bullet is travelling at the same velocity at those respective distances. | |||
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Congratulations! Damn nice buck. Guns and hunting | |||
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Congratulations, really great looking buck. Even the rocks don't last forever. | |||
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Good for you Ann. Am happy for you, thanks for sharing and with nice pictures too. George "Gun Control is NOT about Guns' "It's about Control!!" Join the NRA today!" LM: NRA, DAV, George L. Dwight | |||
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Thanks guys! I never expected this buck to still be around. I felt truly blessed to have him show up again. I just hope he bred the resident ladies before I put him down. The deer population has been pretty sparse this year. Only one of the resident does had fawns for 2018. The rest appear to have lost what they had. Not much for bucks around either and I saw none of the usual yearlings that I try for in archery for the freezer. I am not sure if it is disease, predators, drought or over harvest last year but the lack of deer is noticeable on my property. ~Ann | |||
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Nice buck | |||
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Very nice! I really need to give whitetail hunting a try! | |||
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Excellent buck. Patience pays off again. Congratulations | |||
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Good shot and nice Buck!! | |||
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Well done Ann!!! Beautiful buck! Best regards, D. Nelson | |||
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I was surprised to find this on one of my game cameras. This is the buck I shot walking up the fence line towards me. ~Ann | |||
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There's me picking him up! Pretty good camera, eh? ~Ann | |||
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A perfect 10. Good shooting. | |||
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I shot a buck like that last year in MN (maybe a bit smaller than yours), but this year no such luck (little 8 pt). Our deer population in northern MN is doing really well; I saw lots of deer last week. Wowza Ann, almost as cold in MO as MN! | |||
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Way to go Ann, congrats on a fine buck. _____________________ A successful man is one who earns more money than his wife can spend. | |||
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Nice buck DRSS Searcy 470 NE | |||
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Well done, Ann! I really like the character on those antlers...truly a nice buck. Bobby Μολὼν λαβέ The most important thing in life is not what we do but how and why we do it. - Nana Mouskouri | |||
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Great buck Ann Big big congratulations " Until the day breaks and the nights shadows flee away " Big ivory for my pillow and 2.5% of Neanderthal DNA flowing thru my veins. When I'm ready to go, pack a bag of gunpowder up my ass and strike a fire to my pecker, until I squeal like a boar. Yours truly , Milan The Boarkiller - World according to Milan PS I have big boar on my floor...but it ain't dead, just scared to move... Man should be happy and in good humor until the day he dies... Only fools hope to live forever “ Hávamál” | |||
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Very unique buck, Ann, congratulations! Frank "I don't know what there is about buffalo that frightens me so.....He looks like he hates you personally. He looks like you owe him money." - Robert Ruark, Horn of the Hunter, 1953 NRA Life, SAF Life, CRPA Life, DRSS lite | |||
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Congrats Ann. I shot a six point buck and a mature doe on 11/16/18 about 30 miles north of your old stomping grounds in Michigan. Jesus saves, but Moses invests | |||
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Nice buck Ann ________________________________________________ Maker of The Frankenstud Sling Keeper Proudly made in the USA Acepting all forms of payment | |||
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Nice buck and story. Get’s me psyched up for a rifle hunt I have booked in northern Missouri next Fall. | |||
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What area? ________________________________________________ Maker of The Frankenstud Sling Keeper Proudly made in the USA Acepting all forms of payment | |||
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Nice buck Ann and I like your recovery method. Nothing like a loader! Have gun- Will travel The value of a trophy is computed directly in terms of personal investment in its acquisition. Robert Ruark | |||
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Thanks for sharing the photos, the story and the view from the tractor seat. I think we have the same tractor. ...I say that hunters go into Paradise when they die, and live in this world more joyfully than any other men. -Edward, duke of York ". . . when a man has shot an elephant his life is full." ~John Alfred Jordan "The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance." Cicero - 55 BC "The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities." - Ayn Rand Cogito ergo venor- KPete “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages.” ― Adam Smith - “Wealth of Nations” | |||
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I've got a little Massey Ferguson 1428 I bought with cash in '04. I have hauled that tractor with me to two other states so far. I can't live without it! ~Ann | |||
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. Worth County | |||
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Missouri can be great deer hunting. I know the northern portion has a lot of crop land and the bucks do very well there. I'm in the Ozarks so there is nothing but natural mast trees and enough woodland and pasture to keep the deer interested in the area. Most of the time I only have options at spike bucks/yearlings. They sure eat good! ~Ann | |||
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