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I was fortunate enough to shoot this buck Monday evening on the 5th day of a 6 day hunt at a small 160 acre farm in Pike County Illinois. Due to a very wet fall they have been extremely late getting the corn up and the weather turned warm on us while we were up there. Those two factors really cut down on deer movement. But this buck came out of a standing corn field trailing behind 3 does. Shot him with a Grim Reaper as he passed my tree which blew through his left shoulder; drove on through his chest; and wedged into the bone of his right shoulder. He snapped my arrow in two when he took off back towards the field. As I watched him run his chest just started getting lower and lower until he plowed the ground and rolled over. Ran about 70 yards. Main frame 10 point with a forked right brow tine making him an 11 point. Weighed 225lbs on the farmers scales. Tickled to get him as under the conditions we were faced with I was starting to catch a faint whiff of tag soup. LOL! ![[Linked Image]](http://i33.tinypic.com/v41m3q.jpg)
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Nice deer, what setup you using?
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Mathews Q2 (28in/70lbs) that I've had for years now. 27 inch Gold Tip pro hunter arrows. 100 grain Grim Reaper broadheads. QAD Ultra rest.
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Great buck and good job.
yet another high tech head with failure to pass through.
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
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I've never gotten any head to break and pass through both shoulder bones, be they fixed or mechanical. Doubt any would have on this particular shot either. But the entrance hole looked like he had been hit with a 12 gauge slug; it took out both lungs; disconnected his heart from several major arteries; and he only went 70 yards. I'd call that good performance.
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Great deer
I bet those illinois deer taste pretty good being corn fed their whole lives
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My dog is a member of the "Turd Like Clan"
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Brett a young doe that has spent her whole life eating in these Illinois corn fields is about as good as it gets with deer meat. Noticiably better than one of our Alabama deer that has spent a life time eating acorns and various other browse. Not that any of it is bad to me. LOL!
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Gotta love that midwest corn fed deer meat! Nice buck to boot...
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HUNTERS, THE ORIGINAL HOMELAND SECURITY!!!
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