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Thats one nice Buck ..
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Letting all those three points walk during your first five years of hunting paid you back with a very nice 4 point.
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Nice buck! Welcome to the site
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Awesome first buck! Can't beat that.
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Nice first buck!
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That's a great first buck. Congrats
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congrats on you first and welcome
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that's an awesome first buck that was worth waiting for, congrats...
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What a way to start out I really like the color of it;s horns nice buck. Welcome
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Thanks everybody for all the positive feedback. For all of you asking for a story, here it is.
It was only a couple hundred yards off of my parents place there out of Cle Elum. I had heard from my brother that there was a 2x2 and a 2x3 with a couple does walking around the area, so I was keeping an eye out for them. Opening morning I had set out and was on a hill overlooking a low brush area. It was foggy and about 30 min after legal shooting time I heard some movement behind me a bit up the hill and scoped in the two bucks I had been told about. I also saw another doe and heard one a little further up the hill, which i also assumed to be a doe. Being the first bucks I had seen in WA during season, I was eager to take a shot at the 2x3, but I couldn't tell which one it was due to the lack of light and the overcast foggy weather. After about 15 min of alternating between these two bucks in my cross-hairs, I was getting antsy and my patience was running thin. I didn't want to lose this opportunity as they were moving up the hill into thicker brush. Then up near where I thought the two does were, I saw another set of antlers come out of the brush. There standing broadside were at least 8 points worth of antlers. What I thought had been two does bedded down in the brush turned out to be a doe and a big ole' buck. It only took me about 2 seconds to realize I had much more than a 2x3 on my hands. About 10 seconds later I took the shot and hit him about 4 inches below the heart and lungs on a 70 yard shot. (Using a 30.06) After firing I instinctively loaded another round into the chamber and saw that he had double backed and was running perpendicular to my angle to him and was going back down the hill. I still had my scope on 9 power zoom so I put my sights on where I thought he might be running through and waited for him to pass by my field of vision. Right as he did I fired off another round. I initially thought I had missed him the second time but after we had him hung up and skinned I found I had in fact hit him the second time and blown out a portion of his back hip. 2 shots fired, 2 hits. I'm just thankful God gave me the patience to keep hunting after all those years of coming home empty handed, and that I hadn't taken the shot at the 2x3 only 5 minutes earlier.
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That is one awsome first deer and I love the story
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Great deer and cool story, congrats on a fine animal.
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congrats! that thing looks like a pig! it took me about 5 or 6 years to get my first buck as well.
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I just noticed the excellent shot placement as well.
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That's my boy Wyatt!!!!!!
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