Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: mullet on October 31, 2011, 07:41:05 pm
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I was at work this morning and watched this fine Buck, by Florida Standards anyway, chase a doe across the highway with his nose to the ground. I sure hope he caught her at least once before that big, fast Semi took him out. I hated to se that and also hated seeing some of the tips broke off when I stopped to cut them. He was a 12 point and had a 27" spread at the widest point.
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Aw man! That's just saaaaaad! The kid's face tells the tale.
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That's too bad Eddie are you allowed to pic and posess or was it tore up too bad?
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That is a fine buck for Florida........shoot for any where. Thoses does lead those fellows to death when they cross the highway.
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Looks like some fine knife handles there.
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John, yea, the kid's a ham and good actor.
Ronnie, we can pick up road kill if we call Game and Fish.
It is one of the biggest racks I've seen in Florida and I think I'm going to rebuild the broken parts and mount it on a plaque.
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He didn't get that big by ignoring traffic...just goes to show what happens when chasing females take over.
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JW, he got stupid in old age ;D ;D ;D. One of the guys at the mine told me they've seen him crossing in the same place 4 times in the last two weeks. There was also a big Boar hog(about 250#) just up the road.
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That's too bad he had to go to waste. So you witnessed him get clipped? Been awhile since I've seen one get hit, used to see it all the time living in the North East during high school. Didn't take long before I got desensitized to seeing them dead on the roads like squashed squirrels. Guess that's what happens when the general population doesn't get hunting. Never seen a buck like that down here, that's for sure.
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Steve, got to see it unfold almost in slow motion. You know when you're watching everything come together and it's like, "man, this is going to be ugly". He got blasted. The front part was just the front two legs and banged up head. :'(
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Eddie,
That was a nice buck. I wouldn't hesitate to take a shot at it. Good save. I can almost hear the little guy saying, "say hello to my little friend...." :laugh:
Cipriano
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Cipriano, I'd have taken a shot at it with my F-250 if given the chance and salvaged the meat too.
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Ah, pretenderized venison. I've had that before myself. I noticed you didn't say anything about that beautiful new jeep...
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What? F-250? The Jeep ain't good enough for deer?
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Auggie, I need the Jeep to get to Pappy's this weekend. The F-250 is owned by somebody else and has a 100K + miles on it. I just put a new tie rod in it that got bent hitting a couple of big pigs. Didn't have to pay for that either. ;D ;)
The Jeep sill looks too pretty to go smashing critters. ;D yet.
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To bad,that's a nice buck by any ones standards. :) :)
Pappy
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Fine looking young man holding some nice looking horns.
Sorry the rest of the deer was not salvageable....
My late Mother took a spike buck with her 1978 Ford Cougar one year.
Took me about eight hours to get that dear cleaned of chrome and bone fragments.
I was twelve, and that was the first deer I had ever cleaned and processed by myself.
But I tell ya, I can still remember how Wonderful the venison stew smelled cooking there on the stove afterwards.
We had just left the house on our way to a family gathering at the lease we were hunting that year.
Not five miles from the house when she "Got Her Deer"...
After I got the car outa the deer and the deer outa the car and made sure the car was still safe to drive, we went on to the lease.
That Lady had a will, and iron in her spine... She was able to step over that traumatic event and find the humor in it.
Even though she was sorry for the deer and pi$$ed about the damage to her car, she was the only one to get a deer that weekend.
And she found the humor in relaying the story of how she got her buck, to all of the dedicated hunters on the lease.
Far as I know that was her one and only deer.
:)
-gus
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Dang, that is a nice one. There have been a couple of bigger ones taken out of the stick marsh, by some friends of mine, but that ol boy is a right nice one for down here! Don't bother going to Pappy's, they have pretty much cleaned out the herd already. They didn't bother to wait on you. So you just save yourself some gas money, and I will help you eat the water lizard, and hog, and tangerines! I do love tangerines. ;)
Yeah, I hope he was with her but if he was still chasing her, she was probably still in estrus, but hopefully he passed on his genes to other does there. I am sure he is not the only one running around with a big rack like that, in that area.
Wayne
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No he wasn't, Wayne. I talked to one of the guys working at that Mine and he told me a real, big ten point got slammed in the same spot the week before. Sounds like a good place for a treestand if you could get off a shot before a truck came through.
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No he wasn't, Wayne. I talked to one of the guys working at that Mine and he told me a real, big ten point got slammed in the same spot the week before. Sounds like a good place for a treestand if you could get off a shot before a truck came through.
Hmmmmm....uh....How loud is your bow? ::) Or .22 sub sonics from your Mauser..... ;)
Wayne