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Wow what a cool deer. ๐๐๐ป
Ping pong balls for the win. Once you've wrestled everything else in life is easy. Dan Gable I keep my circle small, Iโd rather have 4 quarters than 100 pennies.
Ainโt easy havin pals.
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Montana General on Public, Is he giant? No, but I'm extremely thankful for easy to draw general tags. I applied for 13 licenses last year, had I not drawn this general tag as a nonres I wouldnt have been able to hunt at all. drew blanks on all the others. Icing on the cake. Shot it with Big Sticks Bane- .220 Swift, Leupold, Hornady Spire point.
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I did cut this track, 3 years ago & had an all to brief encounter. He was a truly, majestic giant ! We'll never know, if I would have pulled the trigger ? You saw the animal that made that track? Yep, & this one & this one & so on.
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"Kids who grow up hunting, fishing & trapping, do not mug little old Ladies"
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Montana General on Public, Is he giant? No, but I'm extremely thankful for easy to draw general tags. I applied for 13 licenses last year, had I not drawn this general tag as a nonres I wouldnt have been able to hunt at all. drew blanks on all the others. Icing on the cake. Shot it with Big Sticks Bane- .220 Swift, Leupold, Hornady Spire point. Youโre living on the edge I see!! ๐
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Ping pong balls for the win. Once you've wrestled everything else in life is easy. Dan Gable I keep my circle small, Iโd rather have 4 quarters than 100 pennies.
Ainโt easy havin pals.
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I did cut this track, 3 years ago & had an all to brief encounter. He was a truly, majestic giant ! We'll never know, if I would have pulled the trigger ? You saw the animal that made that track? Yep, & this one & this one & so on. How good a headgear he have Paul. Giant track
Ping pong balls for the win. Once you've wrestled everything else in life is easy. Dan Gable I keep my circle small, Iโd rather have 4 quarters than 100 pennies.
Ainโt easy havin pals.
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My best muley buck to date.
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Big bodied muley
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Another archery buck!
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No tag needed for land owners in Virginia
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My last WY general season/public land buck before taking a transfer to AK. I gave up a really good thing down there. I could hunt the Wyoming Range every year. Oh well. It was good while it lasted but I have good things going on up here too. 2nd to last: Holy hell was this a beast of a pack out, in griz country.
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This was a decent general season/public land buck, but made himself into a 3x3 during a 100 yard tumble.
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No tag needed for land owners in Virginia Now, thats a nice, nice buck!
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I did cut this track, 3 years ago & had an all to brief encounter. He was a truly, majestic giant ! We'll never know, if I would have pulled the trigger ? You saw the animal that made that track? Yep, & this one & this one & so on. How good a headgear he have Paul. Giant track Biggest, tallest, widest & heaviest live buck, I've ever seen Jud !! Face to face, at about 60 yards & he was gone !
Last edited by New_2_99s; 03/17/22. Reason: widest
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With 7 points for deer and 16 for elk, all my non-killing has been on general tags in WA. All Colorado deer tags are through the draw, so those good bucks are disqualified.
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some more very great pictures and very nice bucks ! congrats and thank you for posting ,Pete53
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I've tagged 9 whitetails that scored over 150 B&C with the biggest typical being in ths low 170s.
I've tagged 19 whitetails that weighed over 200 lbs dressed, the biggest going 275 lbs., so heavy that i had to cut it in half to get it out of the woods. Funny thing is that that biggest buck is the only deer that I've shot and had go down dead in its tracks. When I shot it, it went down so quickly that I thoght that it had run off and when I tried to track it, I didn't find any blood trail. I couldn't understand it, so I went back to where I fired the shot and walked straight to where I thought that the buck was standing when i fired. The buck was right there on the ground, like it had just tipped over. Couldn't explain it then, can't explain it now, never seen anything like it before or since.
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A rare one, given where he was taken. MT Gallatin National forest.
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Hell ya kurt, all hammers, always liked that 3rd buck, just a ancient Ol pig. Big Ol head, salamander neck, hell ya. ๐๐ป
Ping pong balls for the win. Once you've wrestled everything else in life is easy. Dan Gable I keep my circle small, Iโd rather have 4 quarters than 100 pennies.
Ainโt easy havin pals.
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Killed my 2nd largest whitetail on public land. Rugged steep place in the Ozarks. No fun dragging him uphill to the road.
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