Gnarly old buck....oh yeah, and my wife's buck too.

[JimmieD]

Been after an old buck for the past 2 years and finally caught up with him this year.  An old buck, starting to show regress, and what I think is some crazy cool knurling. 

We were heading back in yesterday after a noon hunt on late season to take care of farm stuff, not paying too much attention and we jumped a buck.  I saw him jump into the thick nastiness to our right off the old overgrown loggin road (now a 6' wide trail) about 70 yards.  We both froze and just for fun I took out the doe can gave it 2 turns and we started creeping, 10 yards later, another buck popped out from the left onto the road/path, looked to be decent wide beams, little thin, but nice buck, shot was taken, took off down the path away from us.  Did a little silent high five-ing, waited about 30 seconds, turned the can a few times to check to see if we could hear a bit of wheezing or a grunt and the first buck that jumped to the right pops out....my old game camera nemesis that I have been looking for...God answers prayers!  Was about 55 yards out, took the shot, he bolted down the same path as the first one.  Kneeling there, a bit, smiling, some more silent high five-ing, then, gave a few turns of the can to see if we could hear anything and in the thick nastiness to our left we could hear movement, snorting and a few wheezes, more snort/grunts, then more movement, then silence.  Hoping one didn't do a u-turn on us and go through the the nastiness, we spent another 5 minutes (seemed like 30) before we crept up to where we shot them.  Awesome blood, and the trail was good.  30 feet, later down the trail was the old buck, and another 20 feet down the trail was the younger one, then realized that the snorting and grunting we had heard earlier was another buck in the area....very cool afternoon!  No tag soup, no nasty underbrush to deal with, made for a late night, but all is good during the late hunt!  Thanks for reading our adventure!  (added pics of that old buck on game camera for past 2 years)

[deerhunter_98520]

Congrats  always nice to get a buck you have a history with

[tgomez]

Congradulations on two great blacktail bucks. Thanks for the story to read as well. Should be great eating the next few months for ya'all.👍🍻

[elkrack]

 

[JakeLand]

Great job !! That's a cool looking old buck

[blackveltbowhunter]

Congratz! Great bucks

[Buckewe]

Great deer. Love the first one wow

[SkookumHntr]

Awesome!!

[Angry Perch]

Love the trashy bases on that buck!

[Mark251]

 

[Widgeondeke]

That's a great hunt.  Thx for sharing. 

[bigmacc]

JimmieD, that is an old soul for sure what was his teeth like? My dad took an old timer back in "67" that was a monster. The fish and game fellas said it was the biggest buck they had seen at the time, figured him at over 400lbs on the hoof(mule deer), the darn thing only had one tooth left and they figured he never would have made it through the winter. Congrats to you and your wife on a couple dandy bucks!....they said my dads buck was 12 1/2 to 13 1/2 years old.

[ElkBOW79]

Great story!  It's awesome to see how God's timing is always perfect!!

[bowhunterforever]

Sounds like it was an awesome hunt Congrats

[willapawapiti]

Cool buck!!!

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[Turner89]

Awesome blacktail  eye guards on that thing are cool.
I had a similar gig with a big buck this year. I had already tagged out the weekend earlier, so I couldn't shoot though. I was walking down the same kind of over grown road. I could smell a buck big time, so I grunted one time, and instantly herd something comming through the brush. One of the biggest blacktail I've seen in my area came out on the road, and was heading right for me. Got 30ft from me before he realized I was standing there. We had a 5min stare down. The whole time we were starring at each other there was another buck in the brush grunting, weazing, and tearing a tree up. It was pretty cool. I'd never heard blacktail doing that myself.  Learned some good stuff for next year.
   Thanks for posting 

[JimmieD]

Thanks all!  It was a great close-up and personal experience for sure, the nice, open/semi-open ranged clear cut shots are nice, but this experience makes me want to feel that rush of hunting in thick brush!  Thanks again for sharing in our adventure, and its nice to be able to share with others who can appreciate it.   

bigmacc, his teeth are worn, but look pretty good, and surprisingly, I could only find a few ticks on him, maybe 4 in all, maybe the meat is too old....lol

ElkBOW, it always is!   

Thanks Turner89, yeah that is similar to what we had experienced, and just as they are learnin', I learned a bit more this year.  Closest I had been to one to actually hear the wheezing.

[fishnfur]

A two-fer!  Absolutely awesome!  Great story too. 

[fish vacuum]

I can't decide which buck I like better. On the one hand, I like big forks. But on the other hand, I like knarly bases.

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