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Offline dpete

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Hello, and my 08 buck
« on: February 08, 2009, 12:36:44 PM »
Hi ive been lurking and reading for a while now but my computer was such a POS I didnt really enjoy being on it, also i couldnt post pics. Now I have a new PCso here goes..My 08 season started packed in up high in the Teanaway. I spent a whole week in a wall tent with no luck. My two partners scored decent bucks but I came out empty handed. My plan b was to hunt the late west side hunt so I chose an area to hike behind a closed gate. When I got to the gate in the morning there was only one truck there. I parked took my last drink of coffee and started putting on my pack as I stepped out of my truck in the darkness I looked up and saw a shooting star O.k. I believe in a little luck so I felt pretty good. I spoke with the other hunter asking him where he was headed, he wasnt going as far as me so I decided to go ahead of him. As I hiked in it was slowly getting light. I started glassing about every 20 steps or so. As I approached the clearcut I was heading to I slowed down and crept into the cut glassing about every 5 steps. I saw another hunter on a mtn bike riding the road along the cut. He glassed down in at one point and then left. I decided to continue along the road past where Id seen the other hunter. As I crept along a buck jumped out of the clearcut to my left taking 3 big hops across the road and dissapearing into the other side which was thick reprod. I froze for a few minutes and continued on. As I rounded the bend I came to a spot in the road where two bucks had a massive fight, the road was torn up with hoof prints and antler scrapes. I stopped right there and pulled out the doe urine putting some on a cotton ball and setting it in the branch of a small alder. There was a skid road to my left I decided to slowly creep down. I got about 30 yds down the road and glassed a buck on the hillside to my right when I pulled up my rifle and looked through my scope he was gone. About a half a minute later here comes a doe trucking through the clearcut..I knew what was coming next. As quick as I saw the doe there he was ears out head down nose sticking straight out after the doe. I quickly pulled up and shot as he was moving steadily. Back in the scope all I saw were hooves in the air, I was only about 60 yds away so my 7mm upended him. 162 grain hornadys if you care to know. As I approached him he stunk bad from ruttin, he had battle scars including a small puncture in the nose from fighting. Victory is short when your by yourself and 2 miles from your truck so I quickly got started. Another hunter came by and snapped these photos for me otherwise I would have none. I quarteered him and headed out with two qtrs and the head. Along the way I met a timber company employee working on the road as luck would have it he let me drive in to get the rest of the deer. At the butcher he weighed 130# not bad. -DSP-

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Re: Hello, and my 08 buck
« Reply #1 on: February 08, 2009, 12:40:07 PM »
Thats a Dandy  :tup:

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Re: Hello, and my 08 buck
« Reply #2 on: February 08, 2009, 12:41:17 PM »
 :hello: Welcome to the site. Awesome blacktail, love the mass on it. Great write up too :tup:
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Re: Hello, and my 08 buck
« Reply #3 on: February 08, 2009, 12:43:50 PM »
WELCOME!  GREAT first post.   Love that mass!

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Re: Hello, and my 08 buck
« Reply #4 on: February 08, 2009, 12:46:30 PM »
Welcome to the site. Great buck! :tup:
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Re: Hello, and my 08 buck
« Reply #5 on: February 08, 2009, 01:03:33 PM »
Howdy! Congrats on a Beautiful Blacky.

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Re: Hello, and my 08 buck
« Reply #6 on: February 08, 2009, 01:04:27 PM »
Thanks guys, love this site what a wealth of info and topics.

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Re: Hello, and my 08 buck
« Reply #7 on: February 08, 2009, 01:13:59 PM »
Nice buck, congrats and way to stay with it!!! Welcome to the site
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Re: Hello, and my 08 buck
« Reply #8 on: February 08, 2009, 01:45:28 PM »
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Re: Hello, and my 08 buck
« Reply #9 on: February 08, 2009, 02:08:53 PM »
Welcome from another new member. Very nice buck. This is a great site. And it seems to be getting better all the time.

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Re: Hello, and my 08 buck
« Reply #10 on: February 08, 2009, 02:14:42 PM »
cool lookin buck

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Re: Hello, and my 08 buck
« Reply #11 on: February 08, 2009, 02:33:05 PM »
welcome and nice buck

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Re: Hello, and my 08 buck
« Reply #12 on: February 08, 2009, 03:17:25 PM »
nice buck

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Re: Hello, and my 08 buck
« Reply #13 on: February 08, 2009, 03:40:44 PM »
Congrats, thanks for sharing.

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Re: Hello, and my 08 buck
« Reply #14 on: February 08, 2009, 03:46:38 PM »
great looking buck.

 


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