Farm work is interfering with my deer hunting this year because my hired man quit on me a couple of months ago. My time in the woods has been shortened considerably, but was able to fill my buck tag yesterday morning.
While spreading manure on a ridge I noticed a buck and doe at the edge of a field. I stopped the machinery and my Redfield 10x42 binos indicated the buck was a shooter. I kept the tractor engine and PTO on the spreader going and watched the deer enter a small grove of Sumac and grassy area that was top of a brushy draw that led into the woods. I called one of the hunters staying at the cabin and said I need three guys to push a couple of deer and to meet me at the farm.
We met up and devised a plan to roust the deer and send them my way. I was dropped off on a township road and I told them to give me an hour to work my way north through the woods and to get in place. Hour and 15 minutes later there was a crack of a rifle. I thought, damn someone shot the buck, then I saw movement in the area I hoped the deer would have showed.
The buck came pussy footing thru some Gooseberry bushes in a rocky sided funnel that leads to some real thick brush. The buck did not make it thru. Savage 99-A 250-3000 87 gr Speer HotCor. The deer was lower then me and I took the shot after he cleared some brush and quartered away from me. Bullet entered back by the near short rib, thru the lungs, broke the far scapula and stopped under the hide. 72 lasered yards. The rifle crack mentioned earlier was a driver shot the doe that was with the buck.
Gets better every time i read it.
I wonder why a guy wouldn't just drive up there and shoot the deer instead of making a bunch of phone calls. Drive up, kill deer, easy peasy.
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The last time that bear ate a lawyer he had the runs for 33 days!
Gawd, never thought of stealing others pics as my trophy pics. Brilliant.
All I've got is dinks and unfilled tags to show off.
3 or 4 years ago a guy on some other forum (facebook IIRC) grabbed a pic of a bull I'd shot and posted it as one he'd shot. Just happened that Pat (Scenarshooter) saw it and told said poser he knew the guy that actually shot the bull. The post, pic and all, vanished mysteriously after that revelation.
Ego is a funny old thing, and there seems to be a surplus of it surrounding dead critters...
“Perfection is Achieved Not When There Is Nothing More to Add, But When There Is Nothing Left to Take Away” Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Gawd, never thought of stealing others pics as my trophy pics. Brilliant.
All I've got is dinks and unfilled tags to show off.
3 or 4 years ago a guy on some other forum (facebook IIRC) grabbed a pic of a bull I'd shot and posted it as one he'd shot. Just happened that Pat (Scenarshooter) saw it and told said poser he knew the guy that actually shot the bull. The post, pic and all, vanished mysteriously after that revelation.
Ego is a funny old thing, and there seems to be a surplus of it surrounding dead critters...
Dude, if you stopped covering your big bulls head in black plastic, it would be easier to identify, thus harder to steal.
Lol
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Farm work is interfering with my deer hunting this year because my hired man quit on me a couple of months ago. My time in the woods has been shortened considerably, but was able to fill my buck tag yesterday morning.
While spreading manure on a ridge I noticed a buck and doe at the edge of a field. I stopped the machinery and my Redfield 10x42 binos indicated the buck was a shooter. I kept the tractor engine and PTO on the spreader going and watched the deer enter a small grove of Sumac and grassy area that was top of a brushy draw that led into the woods. I called one of the hunters staying at the cabin and said I need three guys to push a couple of deer and to meet me at the farm.
We met up and devised a plan to roust the deer and send them my way. I was dropped off on a township road and I told them to give me an hour to work my way north through the woods and to get in place. Hour and 15 minutes later there was a crack of a rifle. I thought, damn someone shot the buck, then I saw movement in the area I hoped the deer would have showed.
The buck came pussy footing thru some Gooseberry bushes in a rocky sided funnel that leads to some real thick brush. The buck did not make it thru.
Dang bud - heck of a buck and a better story! Thanks for taking us with you.
Did I miss rifle details?
Savage 99-A, 250-3000.
Whose rifle??
The last time that bear ate a lawyer he had the runs for 33 days!
Dude, if you stopped covering your big bulls head in black plastic, it would be easier to identify, thus harder to steal.
Lol
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Maybe true I didn't used to bucket my head, just started that four or five years ago. Something about growing older and more wary of internet bs (like what we see here).
However, the stolen pic was just a bull with rifle leaning against it.
“Perfection is Achieved Not When There Is Nothing More to Add, But When There Is Nothing Left to Take Away” Antoine de Saint-Exupery
This reminds me of a story from back in high school, pre-internet days, when a kid a few years ahead of me got caught pulling something like this. His daddy was the richest guy in a VERY small South Dakota town and started W.W. Tire, which has expanded out to several stores in the state. Wayne Weelborg's son, Dane, sent in pictures to the local paper in Bryant, SD of a monster whitetail, supposedly shot with a bow. But no one ever saw the head or carcass until it came back from the taxidermist. The paper ran the story and we showed it to a friend of ours back in Miller, SD who did some taxidermy for us and got me started with archery. About a week after we sent the paper to him, John shows up on our doorstep, out of the blue (81 miles from his house to ours). He has in his hand the Bryant paper and an old Bowhunter magazine. He says to my dad, who was the local Lutheran pastor and Weelborg's were parishioners, "Fred, we need to talk." John proceeds to show dad that the buck in Dane's photo is the exact same buck as the one on the cover of Bowhunter and then shows dad where a replica can be purchased from his taxidermy magazines. Very long story short, Dane bought the replica, shot a dink, sawed the skull plate off the dink, took photos for the paper, then the taxidermist mounted it for him. My dad took the evidence to Wayne and showed it to him while literally in the shadow of the mount. His parents were absolutely flummoxed and they forced Dane to write a public apology for the local paper for claiming to have shot a monster whitetail. Dane's parents are great people. Dane was a bit of a sketchy fellow in his younger years. I haven't seen him in over 20 years, so I hope he's turned out better after that little public tar and feather job. Even before the internet you couldn't get away with this crap. And you sure can't now.
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I didn't used to bucket my head, just started that four or five years ago. Something about growing older and more wary of internet bs (like what we see here).
