Two bucks in one day!!!

[CoryTDF]

Super tired so no long story yet. Wife shot a buck this morning. After a long game of cat and mouse she made a 334 yard shot and put it down. problem was that once we got up to it we could see it was nasty. It had a broken foot that was oozing puss, it was super skinny, and when we cut it open it was crawling with WORMS! I contacted the game department and they cam out to look at the buck. We were given two options 1) keep the horns and burn the tag they would take the nasty deer away. 2) surrender the deer and they would renew her tag. since we hunt for the meat anyway and horns don't eat very well we decided that it would be better to try and get another buck. We had plenty of pictures and it's not like it was trophy class. It was a cool looking buck though.

So we hit the field again with new tag in hand. After hours of glassing we spotted a legal buck about 1500 yards away bedded in some sunflowers. We put a stock on it and got to 189 yards and wifey made a great shot. we got it all on film and we are both jazzed. It is a great little buck with some wicked cool eyebrows.

Two deer in one day and it was all on the up and up. She will NEVER forget this season and neither will I. It was a blast.


The first picture is of the buck that we gave to WDFW officer. The second is the one we kept.

[CoryTDF]

getting a new tag

[denali]

Wow , quite the hunt, good for her 

[JohnVH]

woah, thats crazy!

[X-Force]

Could have done without seeing the worms ....
Its probably a good thing you dropped that first deer it doesnt look like it would make it through the winter.
Congrats to your wife. You guys are persistent!! The eye brows on that thing are something else
 

[CoryTDF]

Could have done without seeing the worms ....
Its probably a good thing you dropped that first deer it doesnt look like it would make it through the winter.
Congrats to your wife. You guys are persistent!! The eye brows on that thing are something else
 

Yeah that buck would have never lived. And the eyebrows are cool for sure.

[Woodchuck]

  Congrats to Mrs. TDF. That first deer was in a bad way.

[bearhunter99]

Congratulations, sounds like you should start a guiding business 

[Icdeadelk]

Congrats to ur wife.     
Our girls are putting a hurtin on the bucks this season.
2 in 1 day.......... very impressive

[RifleRidge]

Thank you for sharing your story. Nice , Very Nice!

[PlateauNDN]

Could have done without seeing the worms ....
Its probably a good thing you dropped that first deer it doesnt look like it would make it through the winter.
Congrats to your wife. You guys are persistent!! The eye brows on that thing are something else
 

 

[HUNTINCOUPLE]

Thats a good hunt!!! The worm part is gross!

[blackveltbowhunter]

WTG!!!

[270Flat]

Good for her!! Some good eats! (the second deer of course)
 

[akirkland]

Im glad to see everything worked out. Love the "eyebrows" on the 2nd buck.

[FSTaxidermy]

Notch one for the ladies  congrats to you guys, thats one wild buck!

[rosscrazyelk]

Never heard of them doing that.. That is cool though. way do it ..... Twice

[whitetailslyr]

Those are some kickass brows.... he looks mean! congrats

[buck man]

Great buck. He had his Frankenstein eyebrows on for the Halloween party.   

[Kola16]

The eyebrows are pretty funny  Now who can shoot a deer with a unibrow 

It is cool that they gave you another tag. You made the right choice 

[hunterrcc]

They should have given you the horns from the first one not like they are going to do anything with them.  Crazy and cool story, like the brows too!

[SeaRun1]

Very interesting, gross, but interesting.  Kinda like getting a nice king with tapioca disease but much worse.

Congrats on the successful day.

SR1

[CoryTDF]

They should have given you the horns from the first one not like they are going to do anything with them.  Crazy and cool story, like the brows too!

I tried like hell to get him to let her keep the horns. 

[JBR]

Last year my youngest son killed a WT doe that had a large baseball sized abcess under the skin near the front shoulder.  While skinning it, the abcess basically exploded a light green goo all over the hide and meat and it reeked horribly.  We all nearly threw up!  The deer was shown to a WDFW Officer friend of mine and he recommended that it not be eaten.  The deer was turned over to him but we didn't think of asking for a new tag. Sounds like we could have asked for and received a new tag.  I will keep this in mind if anything similar happens again. 

[Kowsrule30]

They should have given you the horns from the first one not like they are going to do anything with them.  Crazy and cool story, like the brows too!

They will sell them!!!

Congrats glad it worked out...

[CoryTDF]

Ate the tenderloin from the second buck last night.  She made the right choice for sure. It is a great tasting deer.

[Kc_Kracker]

Thats a good hunt!!! The worm part is gross!

just serve it with rice 

[CoryTDF]

Thats a good hunt!!! The worm part is gross!

just serve it with rice 

 

[C-Money]

Congrats to both of you on a great day of hunting! Nice bucks! To bad she did not get to keep the first set of antlers. did the officer mention an auction or anything to try to buy them back?

[CoryTDF]

Congrats to both of you on a great day of hunting! Nice bucks! To bad she did not get to keep the first set of antlers. did the officer mention an auction or anything to try to buy them back?

I asked he told me no. He said it would just go into the dead pit.

[BIGMIKE]

Congratulations to Heather and Master Guide Cory. Awesome bucks. Great shooting guys. 

[Kc_Kracker]

Congrats to both of you on a great day of hunting! Nice bucks! To bad she did not get to keep the first set of antlers. did the officer mention an auction or anything to try to buy them back?

I asked he told me no. He said it would just go into the dead pit.

aka money pit, they auction them off for extra funds