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Offline Key

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Re: Buck
« Reply #15 on: November 05, 2009, 03:24:18 pm »
Thanks for the congrats guys, I keep going over what happened in my mind.
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Offline RidgeRunner

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Re: Buck
« Reply #16 on: November 05, 2009, 03:54:22 pm »

Tell us the story.
We will help you think it over. ;)

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Offline Hillbilly

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Re: Buck
« Reply #17 on: November 05, 2009, 04:40:56 pm »
Man, that's a brute. We don't have anything looks like that down here. I killed one a couple years ago that weighed right at 200 lbs and that one looks half again as big as it was.
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Re: Buck
« Reply #18 on: November 08, 2009, 09:45:09 am »
Nice deer, love to hear the story.  :)
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Offline Big A

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Re: Buck
« Reply #19 on: November 08, 2009, 07:47:46 pm »
Great deer. Tell us more.
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Offline cowboy

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Re: Buck
« Reply #20 on: November 08, 2009, 08:40:40 pm »
Damn, looks like a yearling bull ;D.
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Re: Buck
« Reply #21 on: November 08, 2009, 11:12:32 pm »
Wow, that would be a task to get out of the woods. I'd have to go get all of Twin Oaks to help me and pray that Jesse was around ;-)
Congrats on monster.
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Offline Key

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Re: Buck
« Reply #22 on: November 09, 2009, 03:41:13 pm »
Thanks again guys. Correction on the date I got him. It was Oct 30th of this year and of course not Nov 30th. The short story goes like this. I spotted the buck coming from a fields edge at aound 100 yards out. He closed the distance to my stand and stopped to work a scrape at about 30 yards from me. He than came right to my stand, within a few feet of it facing me. I was up and ready but no shot. He than turned quarting toward me and I took that shot on his right side. He ran behhind the stand and up over a small  hill where he stopped. He feather end of the shaft had broken by than and I was concerned that I was too far back, hopping for at least a liver hit. My plan was to wait until morning to go after him but it started raining a couple of hours after I got home. I decided to go and find his trail. I found him dead not more that 40 yards from where I saw him last. There was 11 inches of tipped arrow in him and both lungs were cut up real bad.
I don't really know how long he stood in front of the stand but it seemed like hours. I really thought I would get busted and he would bolt away. That one
step exposing his vitals happen so quickly it was all a blurr when I shot.
This old sefbow has killed 3 bucks, two does and a couple of hogs.
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Offline StevenT

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Re: Buck
« Reply #23 on: November 09, 2009, 04:06:08 pm »
I remember a post last month or so where someone was poking fun at self bows and asking where wre all the big deer pictures.  Well, I don't remember who it was, but I hope they are still following..... cause here is their answer!!!! Nice!!!!
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Re: Buck
« Reply #24 on: November 09, 2009, 08:17:49 pm »
Good story Key. Sounds like it was all just meant to be!
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Offline recurve shooter

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Re: Buck
« Reply #25 on: November 19, 2009, 10:02:17 am »
good grief thats a big deer. congrats!
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Offline Canoe

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Re: Buck
« Reply #26 on: November 19, 2009, 12:17:18 pm »
Howdy Key,

Wow!!!  What a bruiser!  Congrats!

The chances of actually seeing / getting a monster like that goes way up when one is actually out in the field hunting rather than sitting at home on the internet.  Good for you!

(Over the past 30 or so years of bowhunting, I've seen a few monsters like that in the big woods of Northern Wisconsin.  I even let an arrow or two fly at 'em - but for not.)

That's a nice lookin' bow as well.  So, what type of wood is your bow it made of? 

Thanks for sharing - it's very encouraging.

All the Best,
Canoe

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Offline Key

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Re: Buck
« Reply #27 on: November 19, 2009, 04:04:07 pm »
Canoe,
The bow was made from an Osage stave. It has been just a great shooting bow since the day I made it. So far it has taken 3 bucks, 2 does and a couple of hogs.
It pulls 62 pounds at my draw and is 62 inches long.
Thanks again guys, for you kind comments.
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Offline Kent D.

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Re: Buck
« Reply #28 on: November 23, 2009, 12:38:18 pm »
Congrats.  Very nice buck.
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Offline Key

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Re: Buck
« Reply #29 on: November 25, 2009, 07:21:57 am »
Thanks Kent, he is very good eating too. Lot's of food for this winter now.
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