Jamie flat hammered this buck at last light last night! we had been hunting hard last weekend and saturday 10-20, and passed numerous smaller bucks. we got into two very big bucks in the morning but juct coulsd not get set up for a shot jamie was comfortable taking.
we rested for mid day and came back out around 4. i spotted this buck in some real thick CRP that the deer like to hide in (you can only see antler tips when they stand up. after a few times seeing this deer we determined he was a shooter and we closed the distance to 150 yards from his position. we then waited for an hour with nothing happening. i then decided to go "bird dog" for Jamie. i snuck into the bucks bed and he busted at about 6-8 yards and ran directly toward Jamie and passed her at 30 yards but she doesnt feel comfortable taking a moving shot so she passed. i watched the deer stop just down the draw so we snuck doen there and spotted the buck on the far treeline. i stopped the buck with a grunt at 220 yards and she bangflopped it with a 90 grain accubond from my 243. went in right in front of the close shoulder and exited right behind the opposite shoulder.
this was a very old deer whose teeth were worn to the gum line.
the buck had healed from a broken back at some point as his spone had a 2 inch kink in it about mid back and there was a softball sized puss pocket on the tenderloins
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he had played the game numerous times and was not planning on leaving that brush pocket anytime in the daylight. but we got him!
thanks for looking!
